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Gamze Bulut; Zeynep Yüce – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2024
Nearly 14 million species are estimated to exist on Earth, of which 1.8 million have been identified, and new species are being added to the world of science every day. Therefore, scientists are aware that there are still unidentified species living globally. Biodiversity is a wide concept encompassing all living things in our living space. This…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Knowledge Level, Biodiversity
Kara, Filiz – Journal of Inquiry Based Activities, 2023
In the present research, the "DNA Model with Clothespins" activity was designed to teach the subjects of nucleotide, DNA, and DNA replication, which are abstract subjects of science. The aim of the research, which was carried out with 20 students in 8th grade, was to examine the effects of the activity on students' achievement on the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Activities, Genetics, Instructional Effectiveness
Musa Sadak – European Educational Research Journal, 2025
This study focused on the relationships between teacher characteristics and students' mathematics achievement in EU countries, including Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Slovenia, Sweden, and Turkey, which are the only EU countries participated in TIMSS 2015 at the eighth-grade level. The data consisted of the sample of 31,969 eighth-grade…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Predictor Variables, Mathematics Achievement, Foreign Countries
Serhan Sarioglu – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2023
Science process skills are an important part of scientific inquiry that need to be monitored so that pupils can improve their skills to do science. Although there are several science process skills tests mentioned in the literature, we decided to develop an online one in order to improve the usefulness of the test and enable autoscoring to reduce…
Descriptors: Science Process Skills, Grade 8, Test Construction, Test Validity
Ozkan, Gulbin; Umdu Topsakal, Unsal – Elementary School Forum (Mimbar Sekolah Dasar), 2021
This study aims at analyzing the learning outcomes of the 2018 science education curricula in Turkey according to science process skills. Learning outcomes are statements that describe what a learner will know, understand, and/or be able to do after completing a learning process. Learning outcomes were evaluated using document analysis which is a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Science Curriculum, Outcomes of Education
Yuksel, Tugba; Bryan, Lynn A. – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2023
This research investigates the Models of eighth-grade students in Turkey pertaining to magnets and magnetic interactions, while also examining the consistency of these models within themselves. Additionally, a comparative assessment is conducted by comparing the current data with data collected from eighth-grade students a decade earlier. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Models, Grade 8, Secondary School Students
Usta, Sibel; Uçak, Esra – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2022
The current study aimed to investigate the effect of visual media-supported classroom discussions on 8th grade students' attitudes towards socio-scientific issues, towards research and inquiry and on their decision making. The study was conducted in a secondary school located in a city in the western part of Turkey in the fall term of the…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Student Attitudes, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Secondary School Students
Koman, Ismail; Bayrakceken, Samih; Oktay, Ozlem; Canpolat, Nurtac – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2023
This study aims to evaluate exam questions set by science teachers for eighth grade students and science questions from a central high school entrance exam (HSEE) according to the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (RBT). In this study, document analysis technique was employed, as one of the recognized methods of qualitative research. The HSEE science…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Tests, Secondary School Science, Grade 8
Yildirim, Fatih Serdar – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2021
The aim of this study is to reveal the effect of using virtual lab application in science teaching on students' academic achievement and students' views on virtual lab application. The study group of the research consists of 62 students studying in the 8th grade of a secondary school in Antalya in the 2019-2020 academic years. Mixed method design…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Science Laboratories
Genç, Tülin; Evran Acar, Filiz – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2021
Individuals have different opinions and views on many socio-scientific issues such as stem cells, influenza vaccine, cloning, nuclear power plants, and organ transplantation that affect social life. Scientific attitudes and scientific literacy of individuals can affect their approach to socio-scientific issues. This research aims to reveal how…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Scientific Attitudes, Scientific Literacy, Science Activities
Taliha Keles – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2024
The aim of the study is to reveal the concurrent validity of the Central Examination of Secondary Education Institutions (OKMS). For this purpose, the relationship between the OKMS subtest raw scores of the students who took the exam and the 8th-grade year-end achievement scores of the courses within the scope of the exam was analyzed by canonical…
Descriptors: Correlation, Grade 8, Secondary School Students, Test Validity
Alkan, Muhammet Fatih; Günseli, Gülten – Online Submission, 2022
THS is applied to Science High Schools, Social Sciences High Schools, Anatolian Technical Programs of Vocational and Technical Anatolian High Schools and Project schools for student selection. With THS, approximately 10 percent of more than one million students are placed in a secondary education institution based on their preferences. The purpose…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Student Adjustment, Scores, Gender Differences
Bektas, Onur; Oguz Ünver, Ayse – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2022
This study was aimed to calculate teachers' effective use of time in scientific inquiry lessons. The research was designed as a case study. The study group of the research consists of 5 pre-school teachers determined by the convenient sampling method. Before the study, the participants were taken in-service training program on scientific inquiry.…
Descriptors: Time Management, Inquiry, Science Instruction, Preschool Teachers
Hikmet Sevgin; Anil Kadir Eranil – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2023
In this study, in line with TIMSS 2019 data, 8th grade students' school engagement in the Turkish education system and various variables in the field of science and mathematics, which are thought to be related to school engagement, were examined with the Random Forest method, a method amongst data mining methods. This research focuses on student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, International Assessment
Karadag, Abdulkadir; Uzun, Emine – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2022
This study is an attempt to examine science teachers' views on Argumentation-Based Science Learning (ABSL) and the activities they have prepared. The study employed a qualitative case study method. The working group consisted of 5 science teachers who work in secondary schools affiliated with the Ministry of National Education in Turkey and who…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Persuasive Discourse, Science Instruction