Science And Technology In Education Essay

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With the changing in rapidly of technology and science reform in evry day, science and technology are the key to economic development, successful industrialization and modern career, and science is mainly benefiting to develop the country with skilled workers and managers because it improves health system, education and infrastructures, to reach these positions it is very importance to invest the quality of education for students (Chetty, 2012). Beside the importance of Science in the world industrialization, in Lao PDR, also has its strategic development of Science from 2013-2020 and up to 2030. There are some issues to promote usage Science in economic development; teach basic science of early childhood and use Science into the life style …show more content…

In similarly, the quality of teaching and learning Science, also known as “World Around Us”, at primary schools in Lao PDR remain poor. According to an assessment conducted by the Education Standards and Quality Assurance Centre of the Ministry of Education and Sports in 2011, 54% of Grade 3 students performed poorly by scoring 50 points and lower cause of many primary teachers possess a low level of science knowledge, unskilled in science content, lack of understanding in deeply about the contents of science lesson and process (Abell & Roth, 1991; Blosser & Howe, 1969; Buaraphan, 2009; Stevens & Wenner, 1996; Tosun, 2000; Wenner, 1993). And other reported by the Ministry of Education and Sports (2011) asserted that the quality of education in Lao PDR is low because of lack of teaching materials, the lack of relevance to local needs of curricula, lack of facilities and service, many primary teachers unenjoy and feel uncomfortable to teach science including those who are competent and enthusiastic in most of the subjects they teach (Vaidya,

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