Mehmet Bahar

Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University · Department of science teaching

The aim of this study is, i) to investigate thesis type, thesis year, university where thesis was conducted, and thesis supervisor title, ii) to analyze the topics studied in the theses, iii) to examine the methods used in theses, in the master's and doctoral thesis on science education that have been conducted in Turkey between the years 1990-2017...

Her bireyin sağlıklı şekilde yaşamını idame ettirebilmesi için yeterli ve dengeli beslenmesi oldukça önemlidir. Bireyin yeterli ve dengeli beslenebilmesi için kendi beslenme sürecini nitelikli şekilde yönetmesi gerekmektedir. Bu durum gıda okuryazarı olabilmekle mümkündür. Bireyin vücudunun ihtiyaç duyduğu besin ögeleri ve enerji miktarına uygun şe...

Bu çalışmanın amacı, farklı alanlardan uzmanların uyum içerisinde sürece dahil oldukları veri toplama yaklaşımlarından biri olan Delphi Tekniğinin i) kısa tarihçesi, kullanıldığı alanlar, avantaj ve dezavantajları ile hizmet ettiği amaçlar hakkında genel bilgi vermek, ii) uygulama sürecinde yer alan uzmanların oluşturulma kriterlerini ve veri topla...

Bu araştırmanın amacı, gıda okuryazarlığının bileşenlerinin belirlenmesi ve tanımlanması olarak belirlenmiştir. Araştırmanın deseni olarak, karma araştırma yöntemi içerisinde yer alan açıklayıcı sıralı karma desen belirlenmiştir. Araştırmanın verileri, araştırmacılar tarafından literatür taranarak oluşturulan 81 maddelik form aracılığıyla 35 farklı...

Öğrenmeye ilişkin düşüncelerimizin bilim ve teknoloji ışığında radikal biçimde değiştiği son dönemlerde, anne karnından ölüme kadar devam eden hayat boyu öğrenme sürecinin her aşamasında zihinsel-duyuşsal ve psikomotor becerilerin nasıl evrildiğine yönelik tartışmalar tüm hızıyla devam etmektedir. Elbette hayat boyu öğrenme sürecinin her aşamasının...

In this research word association test was used to explore the cognitive structure of Pre-service science teachers about biological energy metabolism. The participant group constitutes 67 Pre-service students at a university in Black Sea Region of Turkey. Ten key concepts in General Biology course were given as a stimulating word and a mind map was...

Son yıllarda entegrasyon alanında yaygınlaşmaya başlayan Fen, Teknoloji, Matematik, ve Mühendislik (STEM) entegrasyonunun doğası disiplinler arasındaki sınırları ortadan kaldırdığı için STEM entegrasyonunun öğretimin doğasına uyumlu olduğu ifade edilmektedir. Yapılan yenilikler doğrultusunda ülkemizde STEM eğitimine 2004 Fen ve Teknoloji, 2013 Fen...

This study aimed at revealing the preservice teachers' mental images about the concept of agriculture and the functions of agriculture contains through mind maps. The images of a total of 60 Mind Maps were obtained by drawing technique. Mind maps were examined by content analysis in MAXQDA© qualitative data analysis program. As a result of analyses...

It is of great importance to study some issues such as unconscious resource consumption, environmental pollution, and recycling and to introduce these controversial issues to students under the title of environmental education in the field of science and technology in an interactive way in order to understand and model a sustainable life where futu...

Although learning can occur in many environments e.g. science museum or zoo, some studies reported that teachers are prone to avoid outdoor activities since they lack of field trip training. For that reason; this study aims to explore the effect of the exhibition on preservice science teachers' views about global climate change (GCC) as well as tea...

This is a descriptive study which aims at revealing the general tendencies in the master’s and doctoral theses concerning environmental education which were published in Turkey between 1992 and 2011. Within the scope of the research subject, the database of YÖK National Theses Centre was scanned, and 147 master’s theses and 31 doctoral theses were...

Abstract: In the 2023 vision strategy, prepared by TUBITAK in Turkey, Information Technology (IT), areas have been designated for target countries and FATIH project started in 2010. In order to achieve the aimed goals, FATIH (Increasing Opportunities and Improving Technology Movement) project consists of five main components. These components estab...

The purposes of this study are, i) to determine pre-service science teachers’ views about technology. ii) to examine whether the pre-service science teachers’ views about technology change depending on gender, level of the class being educated or not. In the study, survey was used as a research method. The application was conducted among preservice...

The purpose of this study was to measure the freshmen’s level of knowledge about genetics, evolution, human evolution, the nature of science, and opinions on evolution and the presence of non-scientific explanations among Czech, Slovakian, Slovenian and Turkish students. Determination of prior knowledge and pre-conceptions about these issues is imp...

The purpose of the present study was to collect and analyze the research on environmental education in non-traditional settings in Turkey undertaken with various subjects (e.g. students, graduates and teachers) and published over the years of 2000-2011. For systematic analysis, selected data-bases and journals were scrutinized across five pre-deter...

The aim of the study is to analyze comparatively 2002 (previous) and 2006 (current) Early Childhood Curricula with regard to concepts and attainments associated with environmental education (EE). 2002 and 2006 preschool curricula were firstly retrieved from the web-site of Board of Education and then subjected to content analysis across 41 sub-comp...

The aim of this study is to analyze 9th - 12th grade Biology Course Curricula started to be implemented in 2007 with regard to concepts and attainments addressing to environmental education. In this regard, 9th - 12th grade Biology Course Curricula were analyzed using content-analysis technique, one of the qualitative research methods. 9th -12th gr...

Human perceives invertebrates less positively than vertebrates because they are small and behaviourally and morphologically unfamiliar. This cross-cultural research focused on Slovakian (n=150) and Turkish (n=164) students' fear, disgust and perceived danger regarding 25 invertebrates [including 5 disease relevant adult insects, 5 ectoparasites, 5...

Human perceives invertebrates less positively than vertebrates because they are small and behaviourally and morphologically unfamiliar. This cross-cultural research focused on Slovakian (n=150) and Turkish (n=164) students' fear, disgust and perceived danger regarding 25 invertebrates [including 5 disease relevant adult insects, 5 ectoparasites, 5...

Structural communication grids involve data being presented in the form of a numbered grid and students being asked to select appropriate boxes, and to put them into a logical sequence, in response to a set question. Use of these grids give an insight into sub-concepts and linkages between ideas held by students, so that a deep level of understandi...

When students from Scottish schools were surveyed 15 years ago about their difficulties in learning biology, two main topic areas stood out as high in perceived difficulty: water transport in plants and genetics. In the interim, curricular changes have been made in which cognisance was taken of these findings. The present study was a revisit to asc...

This study aimed to investigate (i) the relationship between pupils' learning styles and their performance in mini science projects and (ii) the degree of enjoyment of pupils with different learning styles towards mini projects. A total of 80 pupils (7th grade-14 years of age) from two different primary schools participated in the study. The Grasha...

In this study, the effect of different teaching approaches on pupils' cognitive structures (N=110) in the topic of circulation system was investigated by using the Word Association Test (WAT). WAT was administered as a pre-test and post-test to all groups. The control group was taught by lecturing. In addition to lecturing, concept maps were used i...

This cross-age study aimed to reveal high school students' and science student-teachers' levels of understanding and the occurrence of misconceptions about food for plants and plant nutrition. To achieve the goal of the study, prior to teaching a two-tier diagnostic test was applied to 200 Turkish high school students that were selected randomly fr...

In this article, Structural communication grid (SCG), an alternative measurement and evaluation technique, has been firstly summarised and the design, development and implementation of a computer based SCG system have been introduced. The system is then tested on a sample of 154 participants consisting of candidate students, science teachers and fa...

The purpose of this study is to determine pre-service science teachers' misconceptions, knowledge level and the ways of gaining knowledge in relation to ozone layer and ozone layer depletion, which is one of the global environmental problems. In order to get relevant data, the questionnaire comprising 30 items on a five point Likert type scale and...

Application of modern technologies may be problematic especially if they possess health risks to humans and/or when humans are not aware about these technologies. In this study we investigated non-major student teachers' attitudes to and knowledge of the chemical hormone usage, a controversial topic in the field of modern biotechnology. Although st...

The purpose of this study was to find out the level of science student teachers' understanding about the internal structure of the heart. The drawing method was applied to achieve this purpose with 120 third year science student teachers. The analysis of their drawings revealed that the majority of the science student teachers have several misconce...

Learning to learn is the most important element of effective learning and it includes various learning strategies that students use while they learn. In this research it was aimed to identify whether the learning strategies have been sufficiently taught to the students in elementary schools or not. The research was carried out with a sample of 260...

In this study it was aimed to i) diagnose the topics that are perceived as difficult at the level of 6-8 science classes and ii) find out the reasons behind of these difficulties as well as propose suggestions to remedy these difficulties. Eighteen science teachers and three hundred students attending different types of secondary schools participat...

The paper reports the effect of motivational styles on group work and discussion-based teaching in an environmental science course. The students' motivational styles were explored by a questionnaire whose items were written to correspond to four motivational patterns: achiever, curious, conscientious and sociable. A total of 180 university students...

This study aimed to reveal the pupils' ideas about the concept of life. A structural communication grid containing 16 objects was designed and one thousand pupils (age 11-18) from five primary and secondary schools were asked questions about these objects to find out their ideas regarding the concept of life. The results showed that i) pupils posse...

This paper reports: (i) the relationship between certain psychological factors (i.e. field dependence/field independence, convergence/divergence and working memory capacity); and (ii) the effect of these factors on the performance of the grid-type of questions and of word association tests in biological concepts.

The word association test is one of the commonest and oldest educational tools for investigating the cognitive structure of learners. In this present study, a word association test was used to map the cognitive structure of areas of elementary genetics in first-year biology students. In order to map the structures, relatedness coefficient values an...

This study aimed to reveal the motivational styles of biology students and to find out the gender difference regarding motivational styles. Students' motivational styles were explored by a questionnaire whose items were written to correspond to four motivational pattern: achievement, curiosity, conscientious and sociability. A total of 164 universi...

ZET: Bu çalışma lise 1. sınıf öğrencilerinin biyoloji I konularından canlıların temel bileşenleri ile ilgili bilişsel yapısını araştırmak amacıyla yapılmıştır. Çalışma, Kelime İletişim Testi (KİT) kullanılarak Balıkesir Merkez Kız Teknik-Anadolu Kız Meslek ve Kız Meslek Lisesinde 60 öğrenci üzerinde yapılmıştır. Öğrencilere ders anlatımı öncesi ve...