THE VIEWS OF PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS’ ON HANDS ON SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS
Journal Title: Batı Anadolu Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi (BAED) - Year 2011, Vol 2, Issue 3
Abstract
Abstract Recent studies put forward the laboratory courses contains hands on experiments. Through the research, t he o pinions o f prospective s cience teachers’ o n h ands o n science e xperiments a nd t heir applicability were investigated. As a descriptive model, the research was conducted in Science Teaching Laboratory Course in 2008-2009 Academic year d uring the spring t erm. It was carried out with p rospective s cience t eachers s tudying in t he d epartment o f Science T eaching P rogram in the Marmara U niversity Atatürk Education Faculty. O ne h undred hands o n s cience experiments w ere applied. The first data collection tool consisted of twelve items as four likert-type and it was targeted to determine the v iews o n h ands on e xperiments. T he s econd data collection tool consisted of six open-ended questions a nd i t a imed to a nalyze t he v iews o n t he applicability of the hands on experiments. The f ormer was e valuated w ith t he f requency distribution i n S PSS p rogram and t he latter with content analysis of qualitative analysis methods. Considering the results of the research, teacher candidates expressed positive opinions about science teaching with simple tools.
Authors and Affiliations
Fatma Önen, Arif Çömek
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