The use of logical reference schemes as a means of increasing the level of students’ environmental knowledge

This paper describes the results of experimental work on the use of logical support circuits as a means of increasing the environmental knowledge of students of technological, economic and graphic arts departments of I. Yakovlev Chuvash State Pedagogical University. The research was carried out from February 2019 to May 2019. During the experiment, students of Technology and Economics Department were selected as a control group, and students of Art and Graphics Department as an experimental group. In the control group, training was carried out without the use of logical support schemes. In the experimental group, the educational process used logical support schemes. The determination of the initial level of ecological knowledge of students of both groups revealed close values of this parameter. After the experiment on the logical reference circuits use in the educational process, a repeated testing was carried out. Its results in both groups were higher than at the initial stage of the experiment. At the same time, when comparing the data of the control and experimental groups, significant differences were revealed. The students who used logical support schemes had significantly higher test scores than the students of the control group.