Mid-project survey

The first survey from which data was collected was launched in September 2021, once the pandemic was over. At that time, only the meeting had been held in Portugal, leaving the remaining 4 scheduled for the following 6 months. A total of 28 students responded to this survey, these being the results:

We already anticipated the result of this question, since one of the activities established for all the meetings was a teachers’ meeting aimed at comparing the curriculum of the science subjects. We realized that all the schools had a more or less equipped laboratory, but that the hours that each country spent each week using it were completely different. There were countries, such as Spain, that only carried out practices in the laboratory once or twice a quarter, while countries such as Belgium spent an average of 4 hours per week. This is due, in large part, to the approach of each educational system, but age and educational stage may also have had an influence, since following the same example, the Spanish students were 13-14 years old and the Belgians 18, so the level of choice and specialization in the different subjects changes. 

In short, all the students had previously carried out practices in laboratories, but during the congresses the confidence and management of some stood out, compared to the inexperience of others. Furthermore, these teachers’ meetings turned out to be key in the change of methodology that this project had as its objective.