Ongoing school reform in Slovakia has started in 2009 with new state curriculum for all levels. In this paper we
are concerned about main changes of physics education at lower secondary school: inquiry – based teaching,
the definition of science process skills in curriculum and focus on their importance before content standard. New
inquiry-based textbooks had been developed in five years. Nowadays the most discussed issue of science education
is assessment of science process skills. As Harlen (2013) points out “Unless these (science process skills) are
included in the assessment there is a real danger that they are neglected in teaching” (p.48).