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Direct linkSevgül Çalis – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
This study focuses on examining the mental models of 11th and 12th-grade students attending a science high school in Turkey regarding the concept of the electron cloud. The study involved 72 students and employed the case study method. The precondition for selecting the sample was that the students had covered the unit on modern atomic theory in…
Descriptors: High School Students, Secondary School Science, Grade 11, Grade 12
Download full textEs, Hüseyin; Yenilmez Türkoglu, Ayse – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2021
The purpose of this study was to characterize science and non-science majors' mental models of nuclear power plants through their drawings. For this purpose, a total of 27 "Theology" and 26 "Science Education" college students were participated in the study. To collect data, students were first asked to state their decisions…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Nonmajors, Schemata (Cognition), Freehand Drawing
Ates, H.; Saracoglu, M. – Science Education International, 2016
The purpose of this research was to investigate pre-service science teachers' (PST) views about nuclear energy and to examine what effects, if any, of gender and the university of instruction had on their views. Data were collected through the Risks and Benefits about Nuclear Energy Scale (Iseri, 2012). The sample consisted of 214 PSTs who…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries
Yapicioglu, Aysegül Evren; Aycan, Sule – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2018
The establishment and use of nuclear power plants to meet the energy need is a controversial socioscientific issue in all the countries of the world; as in Turkey. In this regard, the current study intended to investigate the effect of the socioscientific issue-based instructional activities related to the Nuclear Energy Plants (NEP) that have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Decision Making, Abstract Reasoning
Yener, Dündar; Aksüt, Pelin; Somuncu Demir, Naciye – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2017
When the fact that information changes and increases very quickly today is taken into account, individuals' ability to adapt to this change shows parallelism with the education they will receive. This study aims to determine the effect of a planned technical trip made to the Nuclear Research Reactor located in Istanbul Technical University Energy…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, College Seniors, Science Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Tsaparlis, Georgios; Hartzavalos, Sotiris; Nakiboglu, Canan – Science & Education, 2013
Nuclear science has uses and applications that are relevant and crucial for world peace and sustainable development, so knowledge of its basic concepts and topics should constitute an integral part of civic scientific literacy. We have used two newspaper articles that deal with uses of nuclear science that are directly relevant to life, society,…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Physics, Newspapers
Kilinc, Ahmet; Stanisstreet, Martin; Boyes, Edward – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2008
A questionnaire was used to explore the prevalence of ideas about global warming in Year 10 (age 15-16 years) school students in Turkey. The frequencies of individual scientific ideas and misconceptions about the causes, consequences and "cures" of global warming were identified. In addition, several general findings emerged from this…
Descriptors: Nuclear Energy, Foreign Countries, Climate, Misconceptions
