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Download full textTuran, Mehmet Behzat – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2019
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between the Epistemological Beliefs and Teaching/Learning Conceptions of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade students in the departments of Physical Education and Sports Teaching, Coaching Education, Sports Management and Recreation Education in the School of Physical Education and Sports in…
Descriptors: Correlation, College Students, Epistemology, Student Attitudes
Turan, Mehmet Behzat – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2018
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between the Epistemological Beliefs and Teaching/Learning Conceptions of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade students in the departments of Physical Education and Sports Teaching, Coaching Education, Sports Management and Recreation Education in the School of Physical Education and Sports in…
Descriptors: Correlation, College Students, Epistemology, Student Attitudes
Direct linkÖzmen, Kübra; Özdemir, Ömer Faruk – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
This study was designed to develop an assessment tool to measure high school students' personal epistemology (PE) in the physics domain by using validation processes. Based on theoretical foundations of PE, the PPEQ was conceptualised on six hypothetical dimensions: structure of knowledge [SK], justification of knowledge and knowing [JK],…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Epistemology, Physics
Aslan, Cengiz – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Purpose: Epistemological beliefs of teachers are important factors on their perceptions of subject area and their classroom practices. This research aims to define epistemological beliefs of teacher candidates and investigates whether or not epistemological beliefs change according to teacher candidates' gender, fields of study, year of study, and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Epistemology, Beliefs, Student Attitudes
Alpaslan, Muhammet Mustafa – Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The purpose of the study was to determine the level of the relationship among Turkish elementary school students' personal epistemologies, motivation, learning strategies, and achievements in science. A total of 322 fifth-grade students participated in the study. Results from the structural equation modeling showed that students' personal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Epistemology, Self Management
Zorlu, Yusuf – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
This study aims to investigate the relationship between preservice science teachers' epistemological beliefs about the nature of science (NOS) and their science learning self-efficacy perceptions by adapting a science learning self-efficacy scale for use in Turkey. This study is model as "Relational Survey". A total of 125 preservice…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Beliefs, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
Gunes, Gokhan; Bati, Kaan – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2018
The aim of this research was to develop a valid and reliable measurement tool (SSEV) for the determination of the epistemological views of prospective teachers, and to use this scale to elicit the epistemological views of prospective teachers in Turkey. The application was conducted with 930 participants. SSEV was found to account for 48% of the…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Scientific Literacy, Scientific Methodology, Preservice Teachers
Karaman, Ayhan – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
In this survey research study, the views of practicing teachers in select aspects of NOS were investigated in connection with the effects of several variables (teaching discipline, gender, education level, teaching experience and regional work location). The instrument used to collect data was an adapted version of "Scientific Epistemological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Demography, Scientific Principles, Scientific Attitudes
Saylan, Asli; Armagan, Fulya Öner; Bektas, Oktay – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2016
The present study investigated the relationship between pre-service science teachers' epistemological beliefs and perceptions of a constructivist learning environment. The Turkish version of Constructivist Learning Environment Survey and Schommer's Epistemological Belief Questionnaire were administered to 531 pre-service science teachers attending…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes
Sahin, Elif Adibelli; Deniz, Hasan; Topçu, Mustafa Sami – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The present study investigated to what extent Turkish preservice elementary teachers' orientations to teaching science could be explained by their epistemological beliefs, conceptions of learning, and approaches to learning science. The sample included 157 Turkish preservice elementary teachers. The four instruments used in the study were School…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary Education, Epistemology, Beliefs
Yilmaz, Fatih – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The main objective of this research is to find out how the teacher candidates who graduated from the Faculty of Theology and study in pedagogical formation program perceive the theory of evolution. Having a descriptive characteristic, this research is conducted with 63 Faculty of Theology graduate teacher candidates of which 36 is women and 27 is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Theological Education, Teacher Education Programs
Kilinc, Ahmet; Kelly, Thomas; Eroglu, Baris; Demiral, Umit; Kartal, Tezcan; Sonmez, Arzu; Demirbag, Mehmet – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2017
For science teachers using the discourse of socioscientific issues (SSI), it is important to make a decision as to whether when and how to disclose their own positions. The existing limited literature shows that science teachers prefer one of four roles during SSI discourse: sticker to facts, imposer, democracy advocator, and committed…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Teacher Role
Sadi, Özlem; Dagyar, Miray – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2015
The current work reveals the data of the study which examines the relationships among epistemological beliefs, conceptions of learning, and self-efficacy for biology learning with the help of the Structural Equation Modeling. Three questionnaires, the Epistemological Beliefs, the Conceptions of Learning Biology and the Self-efficacy for Learning…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Epistemology, Biology
Ozturk, Nilay; Yilmaz-Tuzun, Ozgul – Research in Science Education, 2017
This study investigated preservice elementary science teachers' (PSTs) informal reasoning regarding socioscientific issues (SSI), their epistemological beliefs, and the relationship between informal reasoning and epistemological beliefs. From several SSIs, nuclear power usage was selected for this study. A total of 647 Turkish PSTs enrolled in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Epistemology, Beliefs
Köseoglu, Pinar; Köksal, Mustafa Serdar – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2015
The purpose of this study was to investigate epistemological predictors of nature of science understandings of 281 prospective biology teachers surveyed using the Epistemological Beliefs Scale Regarding Science and the Nature of Science Scale. The findings on multiple linear regression showed that understandings about definition of science and…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Scientific Principles, Science Teachers, Biology
