ラオス ジンミン ミンシュ キョウワコク ノ ショトウ キョウイク ノ キョウカショ World Around Us ガ アツカウ ショクブツ ブンヤ ノ トクチョウ ト カダイ

In the textbooks of “World Around Us（WAU）” for primary education in Laos, about half of its content is on biology, especially about plants. Considering the coming revision of these textbooks, we analyzed characteristics and issues of content about plants within WAU textbooks by comparing to Japanese textbooks for elementary education. We found that current WAU focuses on introducing plants that are close to everyday lives and is structured to teach characteristics and use of these plants. However, to raise targeted scientific research skills, it is necessary to restructure ― split, consolidate and rearrange ― the contents and teaching units based on children’s development stages and growth of plants so that children can obtain appropriate scientific concepts. In the future revision of textbooks, it is important to improve textbooks into more structured ones using strong points of WAU such as connection to real society and everyday life as well as realization of meaning and usability of learning science

Analysis of Achievement on Biology Test in Lao People\u27s Democratic Republic

We studied the 9th grade science achievements, focusing on Biology, of Lao students in Vientiane capital, Lao People\u27s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR, or Laos). Our survey-using selected questions on Biology from Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2011-was conducted in February 2015 on a total of 388 9th grade students from 3 lower secondary schools (3 districts in Vientiane capital). We analyzed the average correctness of Lao students, and compared them with Japanese and average of all OECD countries. We found that a school with less ideal educational condition in the Outskirts Zone of the Vientiane Capital scored lower points comparing to the Urban schools. Also, it seems that science education in Laos focuses more on Reasoning skills than Knowledge or Application skills