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Download full textAkcanca, Nur – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2020
This study aimed to investigate teacher candidates' perspectives about the 'Basic Science in Primary Education' course which adopted inquiry-based instruction approach. The participants of this study consisted of 87 teacher candidates (18 males, 69 females) who continued their education in the Department of Primary School Teaching at Çanakkale…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Student Attitudes, Science Instruction, Elementary School Science
Direct linkSaribas, Deniz; Ozer, Ferah – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2022
The study presented here is an action research that was conducted in a science and technology teaching course in a pre-service elementary teaching program at a private university in Turkey aiming at improving the pre-service elementary teachers' understanding of science and teaching science. In order to achieve this aim, an innovative approach,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Science Education, Science Process Skills
Lederman, Judith; Lederman, Norman; Bartels, Selina; Jimenez, Juan; Akubo, Mark; Aly, Shereen; Bao, Chengcheng; Blanquet, Estelle; Blonder, Ron; Bologna Soares de Andrade, Mariana; Buntting, Catherine; Cakir, Mustafa; EL-Deghaidy, Heba; ElZorkani, Ahmed; Gaigher, Estelle; Guo, Shuchen; Hakanen, Arvi; Hamed Al-Lal, Soraya; Han-Tosunoglu, Cigdem; Hattingh, Annemarie; Hume, Anne; Irez, Serhat; Kay, Gillian; Kivilcan Dogan, Ozgur; Kremer, Kerstin; Kuo, Pi-Chu; Lavonen, Jari; Lin, Shu-Fen; Liu, Cheng; Liu, Enshan; Liu, Shiang-Yao; Lv, Bin; Mamlok-Naaman, Rachel; McDonald, Christine; Neumann, Irene; Pan, Yaozhen; Picholle, Eric; Rivero García, Ana; Rundgren, Carl-Johan; Santibáñez-Gómez, David; Saunders, Kathy; Schwartz, Renee; Voitle, Frauke; von Gyllenpalm, Jakob; Wei, Fangbing; Wishart, Jocelyn; Wu, Zhifeng; Xiao, Huang; Yalaki, Yalcin; Zhou, Qiaoxue – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Although understandings of scientific inquiry (as opposed to conducting inquiry) are included in science education reform documents around the world, little is known about what students have learned about inquiry during their elementary school years. This is partially due to the lack of any assessment instrument to measure understandings about…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Middle School Students, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Duban, Nil; Aydogdu, Bülent; Yüksel, Asli – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2019
Open-ended and inquiry-based experiments will make students more active in the learning environment, and so they play an active role in solving the problem. So, it is expected that especially classroom teachers will be more active in the laboratory environment. In this context, opinions of the classroom teachers about the science laboratory…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Science Laboratories, Inquiry, Science Experiments
Durmaz, Hüsnüye; Mutlu, Seçkin – Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The authors' aim was to investigate the effects of the instructional intervention on science processes skills (SPSs) of seventh-grade students. The study was designed as nonequivalent control-group pretest-posttest, and it was carried out with 43 students. Participants were chosen according to the convenient sampling method. The authors collected…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Science Process Skills, Science Instruction, Intervention
Cetin, Pinar Seda; Metin, Duygu; Capkinoglu, Esra; Leblebicioglu, Gulsen – Science Education International, 2016
Providing students with inquiry-oriented learning environments is a major concern in science education. Argumentation discourse can enhance the effectiveness of inquiry-oriented learning environments. This study seeks the trace of argumentation in Turkish Elementary and Secondary Science Curriculum developed by the Turkish Ministry of Education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Curriculum, Persuasive Discourse, Elementary School Science
Keçeci, Gonca – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
This study is done to have preservice science teachers chance to implement inquiry before expecting them to implement inquiry in their classrooms and to develop the preservice science teachers' inquiry skills and self-efficacy of science. The study group is composed of preservice science teachers who chose the 2nd grade Biology Laboratory course…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Science Education, Inquiry
Unal, Ahmet; Karakus, Melek Altiparmak – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of WebQuests on elementary students' science achievement, attitude towards science and attitude towards web supported education in teaching 7th grade subjects (Ecosystems, Solar System). With regard to this research, "Science Achievement Test," "Attitude towards Science Scale"…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Science Instruction, Elementary School Science
Sever, Demet; Guven, Meral – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2014
The aim of this study was to identify the resistance behaviors of 7th grade students exhibited during their Science and Technology course teaching-learning processes, and to remove the identified resistance behaviors through teaching-learning processes that were constructed based on the inquiry-based learning approach. In the quasi-experimentally…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 7, Resistance (Psychology)
Zhang, Jinbao, Ed.; Yang, Junfeng, Ed.; Chang, Maiga, Ed.; Chang, Tingwen, Ed. – Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2016
Intended to promote the innovative use of technology in education and promote educational advances all over the world, this volume brings together 16 best-practice cases on technology-enhanced educational innovations. Experts from Turkey, Tunisia, Cyprus, Italy, Malaysia, China, India and Finland have contributed to these cases, highlighting the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Best Practices, Educational Innovation, Technology Uses in Education
Ozturk, Elif; Ucus, Sukran – Online Submission, 2015
Argumentation is highlighted as one of the most important activities of science education by many researchers. The main aim of this research is to examine primary school students' nature of science classes and argumentation skills in terms of their academic success in primary science classes. Thus, the main interest of the study is centered on the…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Persuasive Discourse
Metin, Duygu; Leblebicioglu, Gulsen – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2011
Science explores nature and the most authentic way of introducing science is creating learning environments in the nature and let children make their own discoveries in the nature as real scientists. Science camps would be an opportunity for this kind of science education. This study introduces a science camp and reports findings regarding its…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Knowledge Level, Summer Science Programs, Science Instruction
Baser, Mustafa; Durmus, Soner – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2010
The purpose of this study was to compare the changes in conceptual understanding of Direct Current Electricity (DCE) in virtual (VLE) and real laboratory environment (RLE) among pre-service elementary school teachers. A pre- and post-test experimental design was used with two different groups. One of the groups was randomly assigned to VLE (n =…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Laboratories, Scientific Concepts, Elementary School Teachers
Sahin, Elvan; Isiksal, Mine; Ertepinar, Hamide – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2010
The present study aimed to (1) determine elementary school teachers' beliefs in using reform-based instructional strategies and traditional teaching approaches in science classrooms as well as their self-efficacy beliefs in science teaching, (2) examine the effect of sex and school type on those beliefs, and (3) investigate the significant…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Self Efficacy, Public School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Turkmen, Hakan – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate what affect a technology based inquiry approach (TBIA) had on 5th grade primary students' understanding of earth, sun, and moon concept in a science and technology course and how this changed their academic achievements. This study was carried out in a 5th grade elementary science and technology course…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Elementary School Science, Astronomy
