79% of the participating primary students understand always, very often or often the subject matter during the
actual science lessons. In science lessons which implemented IBSE activities this percentage raised to 92% of the
students. This result may conduct to the conclusion that letting and guiding the students to find the answers /
solution to questions / problems by themselves may lead to a higher level of students understanding.
In terms of time to think about the question asked, in IBSE activities with 10% more students had always or very
often time to think than in actual science lessons.
An interesting result was obtained to the question related to the level of importance to their everyday life of the
topics (Fig. 3). Although for 37% of the students it is extremely important the science lessons to be useful in their
everyday life, neither the actual (17%) nor the IBSE activities (19%) are close to the ideal. If we consider the last
upper three levels of importance, important, very important and extremely important, the results are similar to ones
from the previous questions: the IBSE activities (90%) are above the ideal (88%) and the actual science lessons
(78%) are below.
For only 45% it is very or extremely important the science lessons to be relevant to society in general. Despite
this low expectation, 60%, respectively 68%, of the students consider the topics they study in actual Science lessons,
respectively in IBSE lessons, are very important or extremely important to society.
Although, the results show that during IBSE activities the students had more opportunities to make suggestions to
the teachers (77% have often, very often or always this opportunity) compared to usual Science lessons (62%), the
students have fewer opportunities, in both types of lessons, than they would like (for 91% is important, very
important or extremely important to have this opportunity).
A very interesting result was obtained at the last question related to the degree to which the students
participate/would participate in Science/ideal Science lessons. Only 80% of the students would participate to ideal
Science lessons always (40%), very often (16%) or often (24%). 71% participate in actual Science lessons always