THE TYPES OF CONCEPTS STUDENTS PREFER TO ADD TO INCOMPLETE CONCEPT MAPS

Abstract.The main goal of this study was to explore different potential components of science and technological literacy. The study explo-res student’s skill of grouping concepts and creating a concept map. The sample for the study consisted of 131 grade 11 secondary school students from all over Estonia. A test comprising 2 problems was compiled to investigate the grouping of alcohol related concept and creating a concept map. Findings from the study, showed that students mostly make subject related groups and they don’t see relations-hips between different types of terms. To create a concept map students added mostly social and value related terms, students avoids sub-ject related terms If students have a possibility to avoid social factors, then they don’t use them. Only students who have good problem solving skill (good STL skill), can associate subject content to social factors and also show how different subject content were related.