@article{article_573969, title={Developing of Experimental Competence of Laos pupils in Secondary School Science Classroom}, journal={Journal for the Education of Gifted Young Scientists}, volume={7}, pages={595–608}, year={2019}, DOI={10.17478/jegys.573969}, author={Nguyen, Van Bien and Vylaychit, Xayparseut and Nguyen, Anh Thuan}, keywords={Experimental competence,Lao pupils,heat and temperature}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt;line-height:150%;"> <span lang="en-gb" style="font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-gb">How to help
teachers to design teaching plan for raising student’s competency at secondary
school in Laos is now of great concern. On the other hand, teachers teach
sciences almost by lecturing theory only. They rarely explain the problems based
on actual phenomena that occur in pupils’ daily life nor do experiment during
the class. Thus, one of the vital concerns for Lao’s science education is that
the summative and formative assessment for science learning are both only
focused on evaluating the pupils’ knowledge. 
To improve the quality of learning and pave a  new way 
for teaching by doing physics experiment, we developed a practical
science course <i>“Heat and temperature” </i>
with hands on  activities and realistic
application. For measuring experimental competence, the framework for practical
assessment from Etkina 2002and Metzger 2012 was adapted and used </span> <span lang="en-gb" style="font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-gb">(E.
Etkina, Van Heuvelen, Brookes, & Mills, 2002) </span> <span lang="en-gb" style="font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-gb">(Metzger,
Gut, Hild, & Tardent, 2014) </span> <span lang="en-gb" style="font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-gb">.
In this paper, we describe the process and experiences of how to develop the
course with comprehensive worksheets and hands on equipment. We also interpret
the way to gather evidence of experimental competence during the course. After
that, we present some initial results of the development of pupils’ competence
during the course. </span> <span lang="th" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:150%;font-family:’Cordia New’, sans-serif;" xml:lang="th"> </span> </p> <p> </p>}, number={3}, publisher={Genç Bilge Yayıncılık}, organization={Hanoi national university of education}