The course interest analysis of extracurricular scientific practical activity of students in grade seven

Abstract

This paper proposes (the number of course selecting/the number of course browsing) to be a new indicator to evaluate the popularity of the course through analyzing the course selection results of Beijing Extracurricular Scientific Practical Activity. The main conclusions of analyzing relevant factors are as follows: 1. The higher star one course gets, the more popular the course is. And word of mouth and teaching experience play important part in course selecting. 2. Some districts like Mentougou and Tongzhou are lack of course resources, resulting in the popularity of these courses are higher than other areas with rich curriculum resources. 3. The courses offered by museums are more popular than those offered by scientific research institutions, which may have something to do with the packaging of the course. 4. The most popular course is about Astronomy, closely followed by Electronics, Information Technology and Physics. And students have less interest in courses related to Geography and Data and Information. 5. The curriculum of Information Technology is a kind of new course comparing to other curricula, which is regarded as STEAM course in a narrow sense. This kind of course is popular which indicates that students accept new type of curriculum well.