2025 Volume 65 Issue 3 Pages 585-595
The purpose of this study was to investigate what upper secondary school students questioned and what they wanted to clarify from the results of experiments in basic chemistry. Therefore, 111 students in the first year of upper secondary school were shown the results of an experiment with the content of “Quantitative relationships in chemical reactions.” The students were then were asked to answer freely regarding what they questioned, “what they wanted to clarify from the question” and “what caused the phenomenon they questioned.” Their statements were then analyzed. When the experimental results with discrepancies between calculated and measured values, were presented to the students, many wondered why such discrepancies existed. Other students were not interested in clarifying the possible causes of the discrepancy, but rather wanted to investigate something else of personal interest that the teacher did not intend as part of the lesson. Additionally, some students did not attempt to resolve the factors they questioned at all.
