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Durkaya, Figen – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2023
In science class, students learn by making and living information, enabling them to make sense of knowledge effectively and permanently and to associate it with daily life. Applied science courses make learning more qualified. While science teaching is carried out in application areas such as laboratories, virtual laboratories are used with the…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Science Laboratories, Laboratory Training, Science Education
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Meryem Konu-Kadirhanogullari; Seda Vural-Aydin – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2024
The aim of this research is to examine the effects of technology-supported drama method applications on students' academic achievements regarding the central nervous system and their attitudes towards biology. In the research, quasi-experimental design with pre-test post-test control group, one of the quantitative research methods, was used. The…
Descriptors: Drama, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Science Instruction
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Musa Dikmenli; Vedat Kadir Ozkan; Selda Kilic; Osman Cardak – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2024
As a result of human beings' activities to dominate nature and transform it for their own benefit as they continue to advance in science and technology, environmental problems such as climate change have become the biggest threat faced by the biosphere in the current century. One of the biggest problems of humanity today is the scarcity of water…
Descriptors: Science Education, Secondary School Science, Biology, Textbook Content
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Tasdelen, Özlem; Güven, Turan – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
This study investigated how pre-service biology teachers perceived the concepts of 'system' -- as the basic component of the systems thinking approach -- and 'biological system' specific to biology. The most important characteristics of a system appear as elements, interactions, interconnections, hierarchy, purpose and forming a whole. The data of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Biology, Foreign Countries, Science Education
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Zeynep Güler; Burcu Güngör Cabbar; Sami Özgür – Journal of Science Learning, 2024
This study aims to determine those topics and concepts that biology and science teacher candidates find most challenging to learn in biology lessons. A qualitative case study research method was used to this end. A total of 132 science and biology teacher candidates studying at a state university were asked to write down the ten subjects or…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Education, Science Teachers, Preservice Teachers
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Sezer, Kübra; Karatas, Faik Özgür – Journal of Science Learning, 2022
Analogies are bridges between prior knowledge and new knowledge to make meaning of the new one. Analogies are particularly effective in teaching science concepts that are not very apparent in the students' everyday lives due to their abstract nature. For this reason, it is essential to adapt analogies to teach new concepts effectively in science…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Instruction, Logical Thinking, Foreign Countries
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Çingil Baris, Çigdem – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2022
Along with the COVID-19 pandemic, universities in Turkey as well as all over the world have started to carry out their education activities with the distance education method. In this case, many difficulties were encountered in the application of the Biology course, which is one of the applied courses carried out in the laboratory. Virtual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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Aslan, Aysegül; Batman, Demet; Durukan, Ümmü Gülsüm – Turkish Journal of Education, 2023
This study aims to ascertain academicians' opinions about out-of-school learning, awareness of it, and competency to plan learning activities in such situations for the purpose of teaching in out-of-school learning environments (OSLEs). The research group of this study, which was conducted as a case study, consists of 56 academics in the physics,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Buber, Ayse; Unal Coban, Gul – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2023
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) project refers to experiments conducted to address problems, make improvements, or discover new things in those fields that can be tested using the scientific method. This paper describes a long-term STEM project in which pre-service science teachers (PSSTs) have a chance to discover new…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Student Projects, Active Learning, Biology
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Ferhat Karakaya; Canan Bilgili; Neslihan Soysal; Mehmet Yilmaz – Turkish Journal of Education, 2023
Considering both the ecological niches of fungi and the different benefits they provide to humans, it is expected that students have a high level of scientific knowledge about living things in this kingdom. In the study, it was aimed to examine the learning of secondary school students about living things in the fungi kingdom. The research, which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biological Sciences, Science Education, Secondary School Students
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Dogan, Ozgur Kivilcan – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2021
Given the importance of cultivating scientific literate societies, the integration of scientific inquiry into school curriculum is key to contemporary science education. It is apparent that textbooks have been an accessible source of science information for teachers and students since the growth of public K-12 schooling worldwide. Textbooks are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbook Content, Biology, Science Education
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Arikan, Kalender – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
This study investigated the effects of outdoor education on a 10th grade biology curriculum in terms of the knowledge, attitudes, and retention of students compared to indoor teaching. The quasi-experimental design included three groups: experiment (OE; N = 43), control-II (indoor teaching; N = 35), and control-I (no application; N = 35). A…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Outdoor Education, Multiple Choice Tests, Biology
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Nurdan Akgun; Seyda Gul – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2024
This study aims to develop a test to measure sixth grade students' success in 'Circulatory System'. For this purpose, a draft test containing 22 questions was prepared by the researchers. And then, the draft test was submitted to expert opinion and examined in terms of language and content. Following expert opinions, the 22 multiple-choice…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Human Body, Test Construction, Science Education
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Ömer Seyfettin Sevinç; Zübeyde Çiçek – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2023
In this study, it was aimed to examine the visual content and expressions in the texts in the "Cell Divisions" unit in the 10th Grade Biology textbook of the Ministry of National Education, Secondary Science High School, taught in the 2022-2023 academic year, in terms of scientific content. The data sources of the research, in which the…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Secondary School Science, Biology, High Schools
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Nazli Rüya Taskin Bedizel; Nursen Azizoglu – Journal of Science Learning, 2023
The present study has two main goals. First, it aims to examine the analogies an instructor uses about "DNA conservation across generations" in a university-level General Biology course. Second, it aims to examine the analogies used in those lessons according to Thiele and Treagust's framework. A qualitative case study design is adopted…
Descriptors: Science Education, Genetics, Biology, College Science
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