Senior classes students’ attitude peculiarities on an excursion as an informal mean of education

Work object: students’ attitude peculiarities on an excursion Scientific problem: insufficiently analysed senior classes students’ attitude on an excursion as a mean of education. Research aim: to analyse peculiarities of senior classes students’ on an excursion as an educological-social mean. The tasks: 1. To analyse an excursion and its role in temporary social-educational surrounding. 2. To reveal senior classes (10 forms) students’ attitude on an excursion as educational and learning mean. Hypothesis: an excursion has an influence on senior (10 forms) classes students’ educational-social training. An questionnaire and history test were used to interrogate respondents. Research was carried out in Kaunas secondary schools, 10 formers used to participate in it. The experimental and control groups were made. The experimental group was formed of 29 students and control-32. 33 girls and 28 boys took part in this research. The age of these respondents is 15-17 years. During the research it was established that of the most interesting form of learning is excursions, especially regional studies (ethnography). The average history mark increases if students go an excursion very often. Students, who have visited a museum 3 times, fulfilled history test much better, than the students who haven‘t visited a museum (0,0001) Pupils’ attitude, who have visited a museum, on an excursion, have meaningly changed (p