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DOI: 10.25588/CSPU.2018.01.09

UDC: 37.013

BBC: 74.2

D.M. Ziganshina ORCID

Postgraduate Student, Department of Pedagogy and Psychology, South Ural State Humanitarian Pedagogical University (Chelyabinsk, Russia)
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The formation of cognitive culture as a pre-condition for preparing students to the unified state examination and olympiads

Abstracts

Introduction. The article is devoted to preparing students to Olympiads and the Unified State Examination in chemistry aimed at enhancing their cognitive culture.

Materials and Methods. The author chooses the cultural approach as a basis to achieve the purpose of the study. The methods include practical, descriptive-verbal and mainly – the problematic one. The students were given problematic questions in the form of Olympiad tasks that stimulated students’ cognition and encouraged them to actively search for a solution.

Results. The article compares tasks and exam questions in chemistry. With the help of psychological tests, the author identifies gifted children who have a strong interest to successfully take their Unified State Examination in chemistry and participate in Olympiads on the international level. This can be enhanced by the analysis of school curricular and identifying themes which may be complemented with informative material ensuring the development of cognitive culture of students.

Discussion. The study reviews Olympiad tasks in some topics and suggests the elective course curriculum that ensures the development of skills to deal with non-routine creative tasks. The article also considers peculiarities of the elective course to better preparing students to complete Olympiad tasks and the successfully pass the Unified State Examination in chemistry.

Conclusion. The research resulted in identifying basic methods and forms for reaching the highest possible creative potential of students.

Keywords

NON-ROUTINE CREATIVE TASKS, CREATIVE EXPERIENCE, CREATIVE SKILLS, OLYMPIADS IN CHEMISTRY, ELECTIVE COURSE

Highlights

– The analysis of the “State Compulsory Education Standard in Chemistry” has revealed that comprehensive development of students requires more practical activities in class.

– The use of unconventional teaching methods is essential for the development of creative potential of students.

– Comparing the main questions of the Unified State Examination in chemistry and the Olympiad tasks in the same subject, we discovered common features and peculiarities of the process of preparing students to successfully pass the exam and complete the Olympiad tasks.

– The elective course curriculum has been designed and successfully tested in secondary school No. 13 in Chelyabinsk.

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