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Ata-Aktürk, Aysun; Demircan, Hasibe Özlen – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2022
This study aimed to explore how preschoolers perceive engineers and engineering by using their drawings. For this aim, phenomenography was used as a research approach. The data were collected using the draw-and-tell technique and through the drawing and explanation related parts of the Draw an Engineer Test. Totally, 436 preschool children from 16…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Phenomenology, Freehand Drawing, Engineering
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Leblebicioglu, Gulsen; Cetin, Pinar; Eroglu Dogan, Eylem; Metin Peten, Duygu; Capkinoglu, Esra – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2021
Background: Many survey studies conducted in different countries have reported that students had stereotypical images of scientists, such as being male, old, bald, wearing eyeglasses, and working in laboratories. There are also intervention studies to introduce real scientists and change students' stereotypical image of scientists. The current…
Descriptors: Science Education, Camps, Scientists, Stereotypes
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Baybars, Meryem Gorecek – Science Education International, 2020
The purpose of the current study was to determine secondary school students' images of a scientist with regard to gender as the variable. The study was carried out with the participation of 240 secondary school students in a city located in the western part of Turkey in the fall term of the 2017-2018 school year. The data were collected with…
Descriptors: Scientists, Stereotypes, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries
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Erdogan, Sezen Camci – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2019
The present study aims to examine the perceptions towards scientists and science/pseudoscience distinctions of gifted education and elementary education teacher candidates who will educate gifted students especially at the elementary education level. A total of 92 volunteer prospective teachers, composed of candidates from gifted education and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers, Academically Gifted
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Karaçam, Sedat – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2016
The aim of this study is to examine primary school students' scientist-image stereotypes by considering the relationships among indicators. A total of 877 students attending Grades 6 and 7 in Düzce, Turkey participated in this study. The Draw-A-Scientist Test (DAST) was implemented during the 2013-2014 academic year to determine students' images…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes