Science Education and Pedagogy

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• AYŞE SAVRAN GENCER

The present study aims to determine the biological topics that students have difficulties learning, the reasons why secondary school students have difficulties in learning biology, and ways to improve the effectiveness of students’ biology learning. For these purposes, a self-administered questionnaire including three…

• ATİLLA ÇİMER

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, re…

• MEHMET BAHAR

The authors aimed to propose a valid and reliable diagnostic instrument by developing a three-tier test on simple electric circuits. Based on findings from the interviews, open-ended questions, and the related literature, the test was developed and administered to 124 high school students. In addition to some qualitat…

• HAKİ PEŞMAN

Background:The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of an activity set developed according to the inquiry-based learning approach in the unit “Particulate Structure of Matter” on students’ critical thinking skills in science and technology courses. The study was conducted with 90 sixth grade students atten…

• MELTEM DURAN

This study describes the development and validation of a three-tier multiple-choice diagnostic test, the atmosphere-related environmental problems diagnostic test (AREPDiT), to reveal common misconceptions of global warming (GW), greenhouse effect (GE), ozone layer depletion (OLD), and acid rain (AR). The development…

• CEYHAN ÇİĞDEMOĞLU
• HARİKA ÖZGE ARSLAN

Abstract The present study makes use of the capabilities of computerized environments to enable simultaneous display of molecular representations that correspond to observations at the macroscopic level. This study questions the immediate and long‐term effects of using a multimedia instructional unit that integrates t…

• SEVİL AKAYGÜN

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 pre…

• MEHMET BAHAR

The purpose of this study is to develop a survey of technological pedagogical and content knowledge (TPACK). The survey consists of seven subscales forming the TPACK model: 1) technology knowledge (TK), 2) pedagogy knowledge (PK), 3) content knowledge (CK), 4) technological pedagogical knowledge (TPK), 5) technologica…

Abstract This study explores the impacts of selected early science experiences in kindergarten (frequency and duration of teachers' teaching of science, availability of sand/water table and science areas, and children's participation in cooking and science equipment activities) on children's science achievement in kin…

• MESUT SAÇKES

Many state and federal governments have mandated in such documents as the National Science Education Standards that inquiry strategies should be the focus of the teaching of science within school classrooms. The difficult part for success is changing teacher practices from perceived traditional ways of teaching to mor…

• RECAİ AKKUŞ

Problem Statement: In this study, the unit “If It Weren’t for The Pressure?” in the Science and Technology course at the Elementary 7th grade was tackled in two different ways. The first way is the discovery learning method along with the daily plans and activities. The second is the traditional teaching method. This…