Enhancing unsophisticated views of science held by elementary and science teachers
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Prof. Dr. Ayhan KARAMAN Sinop Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Sezen Apaydın Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi, Türkiye
| Makale Türü | Özgün Makale (SCOPUS dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale) | ||
| Dergi Adı | International Journal of Learning | ||
| Dergi ISSN | 1447-9494 Dergi Bilgileri (2012) | ||
| Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler | Scopus | ||
| Makale Dili | İngilizce | Basım Tarihi | 10-2012 |
| Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa | 18 / 5 / 71–86 | DOI | – |
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| Özet |
| The nature of science (NOS), as one of the most essential components of scientific literacy, has long been advocated by science education community. However, most of the science and elementary teachers who have the ultimate responsibility to educate a scientifically literate generation do not possess a robust understanding of the most salient aspects of NOS. In this research study, an attempt has been made in enhancing the teachers' uninformed views of NOS. A total of fifty teachers from different regions of Turkey, thirty of whom are science teachers and twenty of whom are elementary teachers, participated in an astronomy science summer camp enriched with the reflective discussions of certain NOS aspects. The data were collected from the participant teachers using the Student Understanding of Science and Scientific Inquiry (SUSI) scale and analyzed utilizing repeated measures MANOVA statistics. The findings indicate that both science and elementary teachers completed the astronomy science summer camp with a more sophisticated understanding of certain NOS aspects. However, no statistically significant difference was found between the mean pretest and posttest scores of science and elementary teachers.© Common Ground, Ayhan Karaman, Sezen Apaydin. |
| Anahtar Kelimeler |
| Astronomy science summer camp | In-service teacher professional development | Nature of science | Science and elementary teachers |
