Yasemin Ozdem Yilmaz

• PhD
• Researcher at Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa Üniversitesi

The cognitive constructivist theory of learning has been influential since the 1950s. Jerome Bruner was one of the pioneers of cognitive constructivism, and his book in 1960, the Process of Education, had a considerable impact on educational policies for a century. This chapter is about cognitive constructivism and one of its significant learning m...

Cognitive constructivist theory of learning has been influential since the 1950s. Jerome Bruner was one of the pioneers of cognitive constructivism and his book in 1960, the Process of Education, had a huge impact on educational policies for a century. This chapter is about cognitive constructivism and one of its significant methods of learning, na...

Argumentation has been a prominent concern in science education research and a common goal in science curriculum in many countries over the past decade. With reference to this goal, policy documents burden responsibilities on science teachers, such as involving students in dialogues and being guides in students’ spoken or written argumentation. Con...

The aim of this research is to investigate the aspects of science education, which are pedagogically desirable for the individual in the society of 21st century. The research was conducted by Curricular Delphi Study method in three rounds with international comparisons. In the first round, an open-ended survey was used, and in the next two rounds t...

The primary objective of this paper is to provide a review of research on argumentation in science education based on publications from 1998 to 2014 in three science education journals. In recent years, the teaching and learning argumentation (i.e. the coordination of evidence and theory to support or refute an explanatory conclusion, model or pred...

Public awareness of the negative effects of climate change is vital since it leads to collective action for prevention and adaptation. However, investigations on to what extent people are aware of the climate change issue are rare in the literature. The present study reported the adaptation process of awareness to climate change questionnaire into...

The present article aimed at understanding those unvoiced biases pre-service teachers may have that conflicts with their integration of nature of science in their science lessons. Three senior pre-service science teachers" views on NOS with regard to their decision making on critical incidents and their reflections about how they contextualize scie...

This paper presents findings from research on students’ general environmental concerns, experiences, beliefs, attitudes, worldviews, values, and actions relating to climate change. Data was gathered from a sample of 646 seventh-grade students. The findings indicate that students identify climate change as a consequence of modern life. They consider...

Researches carried out all around the world showed that students learn more effectively if they are able to make connections between subjects. This case reports based on an investigation of how mathematics concepts were connected to science concepts by a science teacher in an elementary science classroom, and on the science teacher’s views about...

The main aim of this research is to analyse ten volumes of Journal of Baltic Science Education (JBSE) according to the authors' nationality and research topics of the articles published in the journal between 2002 and 2011. The journal published ten volumes, 27 issue and 166 articles since 2002. The articles were submitted by 343 authors from 31 co...

The aim of this study was to investigate the kinds of argumentation schemes generated by pre-service elementary science teachers (PSTs) as they perform inquiry-oriented laboratory tasks, and to explore how argumentation schemes vary by task as well as by experimentation and discussion sessions. The model of argumentative and scientific inquiry was u...

Scientific literacy has become the major goal of science education in many countries as well as Turkey. In line with this goal, the purpose of this study is to investigate the scientific literacy level of elementary students in Turkey. In this study, the scientific literacy level of students is investigated through "Scientific Literacy Test" adapte...