scholarly journals Investigation of Pre-service Science Teachers' Attitudes towards Laboratory Skills and Chemistry Laboratory Anxieties According to Selected Variables

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 60-76
Author(s):  
Ayşe Sert Çıbık ◽  
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Elvan İnce Aka ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Science Teachers ◽  
Service Science ◽  
Chemistry Laboratory ◽  
Teachers Attitudes

scholarly journals PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ ATTITUDES TOWARD SOCIO-SCIENTIFIC ISSUES AND THEIR VIEWS ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 642-652
Author(s):  
Hasan Ozgur Kapici ◽  
Genc Osman Ilhan
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Nuclear Power Plants ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Service Science ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Teachers Attitudes

There is not a common attitude in a society for socio-scientific issues (SSI) such as whether to use nuclear power plants for energy production. Within this respect, the aim of the research is to examine pre-service science teachers’ and pre-service social studies teachers’ attitudes toward SSI and to reveal their views about setting up nuclear power plants in their country. The participant of research is 120 pre-service teachers. Firstly, Attitudes toward Socio-scientific Issues Scale (ATSIS) was implemented and then, focus group discussions were done with five students from each department separately so as to understand their views about nuclear power plants. Findings revealed that whereas pre-service teachers are eager to learn more about SSI, they have anxiety about it due to religion, moral and ethical perspectives. In addition, whereas both groups of pre-service teachers have some common views about nuclear power plants, pre-service science teachers do not have more positive views about having nuclear power plants in their country. Key words: attitude towards socio-scientific issues, focus group discussion, pre-service teachers, nuclear energy.

scholarly journals PROMOTING PRE-SERVICE SCIENCE TEACHERS’ CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING ABOUT BOILING BY DIALOGIC TEACHING

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-471
Author(s):  
Mehmet Demirbağ ◽  
Sevgi Kingir
Keyword(s):  
Science Teachers ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Service Science ◽  
Chemistry Laboratory ◽  
First Year ◽  
Dialogic Teaching ◽  
Instructional Activities ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Conceptual Difficulties

In order to reach students who can efficiently use intended scientific understandings, it is important to have science teachers without conceptual difficulties. The aim of present research is to enhance pre-service science teachers’ conceptual understanding about boiling by dialogic teaching. The sample consisted of forty-three pre-service science teachers in their first year of teacher education. Dialog-based instructional activities were conducted in a chemistry laboratory course. Audio recordings of classroom discourse and written texts were used for data collection. Pre-service science teachers’ conceptions about boiling identified before and after dialogic teaching were analyzed using content analysis.. The findings showed that dialogic teaching efficiently supported pre-service science teachers’ understanding about boiling. Keywords: dialogic teaching, conceptual change, boiling topic, pre-service science teachers.

scholarly journals Investigation of Pre-Service Science Teachers’ Attitudes towards Sustainable Environmental Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ozgul Keles
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Grade Level ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
Service Science ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
Teachers Attitudes

The purpose of the current study is to investigate pre-service science teachers’ sustainable environmental education attitudes and the factors affecting them in terms of some variables (gender and grade level). The study group of the current research is comprised of 154 pre-service teachers attending the Department of Science Education in the Faculty of Education of Aksaray University. The study employed the descriptive survey method, one of the qualitative research methods. As the data collection tool, “The Sustainable Environmental Education Attitude Scale” developed by Afacan and Demirci Güler (2011) was used in the study. The Cronbach alpha reliability of the scale was calculated to be α=.93. In the statistical analysis of the data, SPSS was used. In the analysis of the data, Independent Samples t-Test and One Way ANOVA were run. The analysis results revealed that sustainable environmental education attitudes frequency of the pre-service teachers is at the medium level. It was also found that the sustainable environmental education attitudes of the pre-service teachers do not vary significantly by gender; yet, they were found to be varying significantly depending on the grade level variable. It can be suggested that further research can attempt to determine the attitudes of pre-service teachers from different branches and to analyze different factors affecting sustainable environmental education attitude.

Investigation of Pre-Service Science Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 2819-2822 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nanang Winarno ◽  
Ari Widodo ◽  
Dadi Rusdiana ◽  
Diana Rochintaniawati ◽  
Ratih Mega Ayu Afifah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Science Teachers ◽  
Service Science ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Attitudes Towards Science ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Teachers Attitudes
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