ERIC Number: EJ1264527
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-1648-3898
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Development of Scientific Inquiry Skills of Science Teaching through Argument-Focused Virtual Laboratory Applications
Journal of Baltic Science Education, v19 n4 p628-646 2020
This research designed within the scope of a TUBITAK 4005 project aimed to give science teachers training on argumentation-based learning, to provide them with scientific inquiry experience, to ensure that they gain skills to develop argumentation-based experimental learning methods. Throughout the research, 100 science teachers were given a four-day (28 hours in total) training program in virtual labs that would enable them to make scientific inquiries through argumentation-based experimental activities developed in accordance with the science curriculum. The "Opinion Scale for the Virtual Lab" and the "Principles of Scientific Inquiry-Teacher" were applied to the participants as a pre-test and post-test. Following the implementation phase, the "Assessing Argumentation-based Science Learning Activities- Scale" was applied to the participating students and teachers. In addition, semi-structured interviews were conducted with randomly selected 15 teachers and 15 students. When all the obtained data were evaluated qualitatively and quantitatively, a statistically moderate effect was determined on the teachers' post-test scores from the "Opinion Scale for the Virtual Lab" and the "Principles of Scientific Inquiry-Teacher." Also, the participating students and teachers mostly expressed positive views in the "Assessing Argumentation-based Science Learning Activities- Scale" applied after the implementation phase.
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Persuasive Discourse, Science Laboratories, Educational Technology, Computer Simulation, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Science, Teacher Attitudes, Barriers, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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