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Ege University · Department of Elementary Education

This study investigated the impact of peer review on developing pre-service science teachers' (PSTs) written arguments about socioscientific issues related to chemistry. In the study, a quasi-experimental design was used with experimental (32 PSTs) and comparison class (33 PSTs). The participants were PSTs who were juniors in a public university in...

This study investigated the impact of peer review on developing pre-service science teachers’ (PSTs) written arguments about socioscientific issues related to chemistry. In the study, a quasi-experimental design was used with experimental (32 PSTs) and comparison class (33 PSTs). The participants were PSTs who were juniors in a public university in...

The present study investigated if the argument-driven inquiry (ADI) model with embedded explicit-reflective teaching of NOSI improved pre-service science teachers’ (PSTs) comprehension of the nature of scientific inquiry (NOSI). The study employed the qualitative experiment method with 16 PSTs. The PSTs working in small groups conducted seven ADI l...

The aim of this mixed-method study is twofold: The first aim concerns pre-service science teachers' (PSTs) perceptions about what makes an argument persuasive. At the first phase, an in-depth analysis of their views about persuasiveness of different quality level arguments in three socioscientific contexts which were global climate change, base sta...

Astronomy is one of the main areas in science education, due to the fact that astronomy is the scientific study of planets, moons, asteroids, comets, stars, galaxies, and universe, and even the study of motion, matter, and energy (Liu, 2014). Astronomy is also one of the most curious and interesting sciences among students and the society (EAAE, 19...

Bu araştırmanın amacı, etkinlik temelli astronomi öğretiminin fen bilgisi öğretmen adaylarının astronomiye yönelik tutumlarına ve astronomi konularının öğretimine yönelik öz-yeterlik inançlarına etkisini incelemektir. Araştırma bir devlet üniversitesinde astronomi dersini alan 45 fen bilgisi öğretmen adayı ile yürütülmüştür. Araştırmada tek gruplu...

Background: Many survey studies conducted in different countries have reported that students had stereotypical images of scientists, such as being male, old, bald, wearing eyeglasses, and working in laboratories. There are also intervention studies to introduce real scientists and change students’ stereotypical image of scientists. The current work...

Practices such as astrology or crystal healing can be defined as pseudoscience. Against pseudoscience, one of the major responsibilities of science education must be to develop science-literate individuals who are able to understand what science is, how science is undertaken, how scientific knowledge is constructed and how it is justified, then the...

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore different high school students’ views of Nature of Scientific Inquiry (NOSI). Eleventh grade students in Science High School (SHS, 69 students), Teacher High School (THS, 99 students), and Anatolian High School (AHS, 99 students) were participated in the study. Views about Scientific Inquiry (VAS...

Bu çalışmanın amacı farklı liselerde öğrenim gören öğrencilerin bilimsel araştırmanın doğası (Nature of Scientific Inquiry-NOSI) hakkındaki görüşlerini nitel araştırma yöntemiyle araştırmaktır. Çalışmaya, Fen Lisesi (FL, 69 öğrenci), Öğretmen Lisesi (ÖL, 99 öğrenci) ve Anadolu Lisesi’nin (AL, 99 öğrenci) 11. sınıflarında öğrenim gören öğrenciler da...

Scientific inquiry is widely accepted as a method of science teaching. Understanding its characteristics, called Nature of Scientific Inquiry (NOSI), is also necessary for a whole conception of scientific inquiry. In this study NOSI aspects were taught explicitly through student inquiries in nature in two summer science camps. Students conducted fo...

Bu araştırmada, Argüman Temelli Sorgulayıcı Araştırma (ATSA) yönteminin değerlendirme basamağında akran veya öğretim üyesi değerlendirmelerinden hangisinin öğretmen adaylarının yazılı argümanlarının gelişimine daha çok katkı sağlayacağı araştırılmıştır. Araştırmaya, bir grupta 20, diğer grupta 16 öğretmen adayı olmak üzere toplam 36 fen bilgisi öğr...

Bu çalışma, TÜBİTAK Destek Programlarına yönelik proje hazırlama eğitiminin fen bilgisi öğretmen adaylarının proje yazma/hazırlama becerilerine etkisi araştırmaktadır. Bu amaçla hazırlanan eğitim öncesinde ve sonrasında öğretmen adaylarından bilim fuarlarına yönelik proje önerisi hazırlamaları istenmiştir. Bu araştırmada eylem araştırması kullanılm...

Bu çalışma, TÜBİTAK Destek Programlarına yönelik proje hazırlama eğitiminin fen bilgisi öğretmen adaylarının proje yazma/hazırlama becerilerine etkisi araştırmaktadır. Bu amaçla hazırlanan eğitim öncesinde ve sonrasında öğretmen adaylarından bilim fuarlarına yönelik proje önerisi hazırlamaları istenmiştir. Bu araştırmada eylem araştırması kullanılm...

Although nature of science (NOS) and nature of scientific inquiry (NOSI) are related to each other, they are differentiated as NOS is being more related to the product of scientific inquiry (SI) which is scientific knowledge whereas NOSI is more related to the process of SI (Schwartz et al. 2008). Lederman et al. (Journal of Research in Science Tea...

Fen eğitiminin en temel amaçlarından biri bilim okuryazarlığının en kritik bileşeni olan öğrencilerin bilim insanlarının çabalarını daha iyi anlamalarını ve onların bilimsel bilgiyi elde etme aşamasında hangi bilimsel süreçlerden geçtiklerini fark etmelerini sağlamaktır. Bu amacı gerçekleştirmek için fen laboratuvarları en uygun ortamlardır. Bu çal...

The purposes of the present study are to elicit pre-service elementary science teachers’ scientific and pseudoscientific beliefs about earthquake and to make inferences about their understandings of science. Although the subject of earthquake is not a pseudoscientific area, some pseudoscientific beliefs related to earthquake were used in this study...

Providing students with inquiry-oriented learning environments is a major concern in science education. Argumentation discourse can enhance the effectiveness of inquiry-oriented learning environments. This study seeks the trace of argumentation in Turkish Elementary and Secondary Science Curriculum developed by the Turkish Ministry of Education (TM...

In this qualitative study, the influence of a ten-day science camp on elementary students' views about scientific model and modeling was investigated. Twenty-four 6th and 7th grade students participated to the study. The general aim of the science camp was to introduce Nature of Science (NOS). One of the special aims of the science camp was to intr...

The aim of this study was to explore the effectiveness of one-week science workshop on science and mathematics teachers' views of the nature of science. In such a workshop, teachers designed and applied a project with their advisors. In order to explore the teachers' views of the nature of science, Views of Nature of Science (VNOS-C) questionnaire...

This study explored the effectiveness of a science camp on children's views of the tentative nature of scientific knowledge. The method used to do so was a synthesized methodology of explicit reflective guided-inquiry, and several explicit Nature of Science (NOS) activities. The participants were 24 children who were at the 6 th and 7 th grades. VN...

A number of studies have already investigated children’s stereotypical images of scientists as being male, old, bald, wearing eyeglasses, working in laboratories, and so forth. There have also been some interventions to impose more realistic images of scientists. In this study, a science camp was conducted in Turkey with a team of scientists consis...

Science explores nature and the most authentic way of introducing science is creating learning environments in the nature and let children make their own discoveries in the nature as real scientists. Science camps would be an opportunity for this kind of science education. This study introduces a science camp and reports findings regarding its effe...

Teaching the nature of science has been one of the main goals of science education in recent years. In order to teach the nature of science in a way that would be appealing to children, a summer science camp was organized in this study. The science camp was held in an area, which was located near a beautiful lake by a mountain. 34 students who were...

Bu çalışmada, yönlendirilmiş araştırma yaklaşımının uygulandığı laboratuar uygulamasına ön ve son laboratuvar tartışması eklenmesinin öğrencilerin bilimsel süreç becerilerini geliştirmedeki etkililiği araştırılmıştır. Araştırma Sınıf Öğretmenliği anabilimdalı 2. sınıfında okuyan 115 öğrenciyle yapılan öntest-sontest uygulamalı deney ve kontrol grup...

Fen ögretiminde ögretilen deneysel süreçlerin ana ögesi olan degiskenlerin anlasılması oldukça önemlidir. Degiskenler Fen ögretiminde genellikle istatistikte adlandırıldıkları gibi bagımlı, bagımsız ve kontrol edilen degiskenler olarak adlandırılmaktadır. Bu çalısmada, degiskenleri bilmeyen ögretmen adaylarının, degiskenlerin istatistiksel adlandır...

Bu araştırmanın amacı, 2004 yılında yeniden yapılandırılan Fen ve Teknoloji Dersi Öğretim Programı’nın uygulanması aşamasında; programın, işleyen ve aksayan yönlerinin hizmet içinde görevli öğretmen görüşleri ışığında belirlenmesidir. Araştırmanın evrenini; Zonguldak ilinde görev yapan 4.-5. Sınıf öğretmenleri ve Fen Bilgisi öğretmenleri oluşturmak...