scholarly journals Determining the Cognitive Structures of Geography Teacher Candidates on “Earthquake”

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Basturk Kaya ◽  
Caner Aladag
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Cognitive Structures ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Geography Teaching ◽  
Word Association Test ◽  
Semantic Associations ◽  
Earthquake Damages ◽  
Free Word

The objective of this study is to determine the cognitive structures of the students of geography teaching department by identifying their conceptual frameworks about the concept of earthquake. A case study design from qualitative research approaches was used in this research. Sample group of the study constitutes 155 students from the Department of Geography Teaching who took the course of natural disasters. Free Word Association Test was used to collect the data. The data were evaluated according to the content analysis, categories were formed according to the results of this evaluation and frequencies and percentages of the response words in each category were calculated. A total of 9 categories were created according to their semantic associations. Some of them are; “concepts about earthquake, damages of the earthquake, a category of defining earthquake, types and causes of earthquakes, landforms caused by earthquakes and other effects” and they form the dominant categories. The frequencies and percentages of some categories are low such as; “The things that earthquake makes feel, regions where earthquakes happened before or there is a possibility to happen, people, institutions and organizations about earthquakes, helping to the victims of the earthquakes, factors affecting the safety of life and property in the earthquake”. In addition, this study revealed that students have some alternative concepts about earthquake.

scholarly journals Investigation of Physics Teacher Candidates’ Cognitive Structures about “Electric Field”: A Free Word Association Test Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
Ercan Türkkan
Keyword(s):  
Electric Field ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Cognitive Structure ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Cognitive Structures ◽  
Physics Teacher ◽  
Word Association Test ◽  
Test Study ◽  
Free Word

The aim of this study is to investigate the cognitive structures of physics teacher candidates about “electric field”. Phenomenographic research method, one of the qualitative research patterns, was used in the study. The data of the study was collected from 91 physics teacher candidates who had taken General Physics II course at Education Faculty of a university in Anatolia. The stimulus word, “electric field” has been presented to teacher candidates through Free Word Association Test (FWAT). The totally 43 responses obtained from FWAT were presented as frequency tables. The responses were divided into 13 categories by the - content analysis. A concept network which reveals cognitive structure of physics teacher candidates about “electric field” was created considering frequencies and categories. According to results of the study, the highest frequency values related with "electric field" which stimulus of physics teacher candidates were power, charge, vector/vectoral quantity, current, magnet, etc. and the categories with the highest frequency of response words were figured out as electrical force, electric charge, magnetic field and magnitude of electric field, etc.

scholarly journals Investigation of Mathematics Teacher Candidates’ Conceptual Structures about “Measurement” through Word Association Test: The Example of Turkey

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmet Erdogan
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Word Association Test ◽  
Conceptual Structures ◽  
Measurement And Evaluation ◽  
The One ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Free Word

The purpose of this research is to determine mathematics teacher candidates’ conceptual structures about the concept of “measurement” that is the one of the important learning fields of mathematics. Qualitative research method was used in this study. Participants of this study were 58 mathematics teacher candidates studying in one of the public universities in Turkey. The free word-association test was used as data collection tool. The “Measurement” stimulus concept was presented to mathematics teacher candidates through the free word-association test. A total of 118 response words obtained from the test have been arranged in frequency tables. The response words divided into 9 categories with the help of content analysis. A network of concepts has been created that the conceptual structures of mathematics teacher candidates about “measurement” using the frequencies and categories of response words. The findings of this study indicates that the response words with the highest frequency of the mathematics teacher candidates related to the “measurement” stimulus word are evaluation, exam, length, meter, test, etc. and the categories of response words are meaning of measurement, measurement and evaluation lesson, measurement learning domain, measurement in daily life, measurement units, etc.

scholarly journals Determination of Cognitive Structures of Science Teacher Candidates in Ecology

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Zeynep Yüce
Keyword(s):  
Science Teacher ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Structures ◽  
Word Association Test ◽  
Conceptual Structures ◽  
Frequency Table

In particular, it is of great importance that teacher candidates are trained to develop awareness of ecology and toprotect ecological systems. Because they are the ones who will be educate future generations. Ecology is generally aconceptual field. In this study, it was aimed to determine the conceptual structures related to ecology of science teachercandidates at cognitive level. The study is a qualitative research carried out by the screening model. The study wascarried out with the participation of 127 candidates’ science teachers. In this study, a word association test (WAT)was used to determine the cognitive structures of science teacher candidates related to “ecology”. Content analysisand descriptive analysis methods were used in the analysis of data. In this data, the frequency table has been formed.Based on the frequency tables prepared according to teacher candidates' responses to WAT, concept networks relatedto ecology have been established. In the preparation of concept networks, cut point technique was used. When welook at the frequency table, it was observed that the key words that teacher candidates associate most with ecologyare living places, functional properties of ecology and biotic factors of ecosystems in ecology. The sentences ofteacher candidates related to ecology are selected and categorized according to the concepts they contain. When thesentences of teacher candidates related to ecology are examined, it is seen that correct descriptions are found but inmany of them there is incomplete information or concept confusion.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ COGNITIVE STRUCTURES USING FREE WORD-ASSOCIATION TEST IN CHEMISTRY LEARNING

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-21
Author(s):  
Norma - Muningsih
Keyword(s):  
Word Association ◽  
Cognitive Structure ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Buffer System ◽  
Cognitive Structures ◽  
Buffer Solution ◽  
Teaching Chemistry ◽  
Word Association Test ◽  
Association Method ◽  
Free Word

This study aims to determine the cognitive structure of high school students of class XI with free word-association method in teaching chemistry at the material buffer solution. The research was conducted in the second semester with a sample of 37 students at SMAN 89 Jakarta. The method used is qualitative in interpretivism paradigm, focused on the analysis of cognitive structures using free word-association method in teaching chemistry. Data obtained by interview, documentation, observation and student assignments through free word-association. Instruments free word-association tests contain stimulus word of "buffer" to collect information about students' conceptual structure in the material buffer solution. The data were subject to content analysis and divided into categories through coding. Results of this study is  there are five categories in the distribution of cognitive structures through free word-association test. These categories include the definition of a buffer solution, buffer solution properties, creation of buffer solution, pH buffer solution and calculate the buffer system in biological systems. The most dominant category is category nature buffer solution. The conclusion is that students have the cognitive structure of the most widely through recall or rote learning and there are learning difficulties experienced by students in learning material buffer solution.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ COGNITIVE STRUCTURES USING FREE WORD-ASSOCIATION TEST IN CHEMISTRY LEARNING

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-21
Author(s):  
Norma - Muningsih
Keyword(s):  
Word Association ◽  
Cognitive Structure ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Buffer System ◽  
Cognitive Structures ◽  
Buffer Solution ◽  
Teaching Chemistry ◽  
Word Association Test ◽  
Association Method ◽  
Free Word

This study aims to determine the cognitive structure of high school students of class XI with free word-association method in teaching chemistry at the material buffer solution. The research was conducted in the second semester with a sample of 37 students at SMAN 89 Jakarta. The method used is qualitative in interpretivism paradigm, focused on the analysis of cognitive structures using free word-association method in teaching chemistry. Data obtained by interview, documentation, observation and student assignments through free word-association. Instruments free word-association tests contain stimulus word of "buffer" to collect information about students' conceptual structure in the material buffer solution. The data were subject to content analysis and divided into categories through coding. Results of this study is  there are five categories in the distribution of cognitive structures through free word-association test. These categories include the definition of a buffer solution, buffer solution properties, creation of buffer solution, pH buffer solution and calculate the buffer system in biological systems. The most dominant category is category nature buffer solution. The conclusion is that students have the cognitive structure of the most widely through recall or rote learning and there are learning difficulties experienced by students in learning material buffer solution.

Opinions of Geography and Social Sciences Student-Teachers on the Concepts of Urbanization and Urbanizing

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-373
Author(s):  
Caner Aladağ
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Urban Geography ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Semantic Relationships ◽  
Geography Teaching ◽  
Word Association Test ◽  
Fifth Grade Students ◽  
The Social

Objective of the study is to determine the opinions of university students on urbanization and urbanizing (urbanizing can also be defined as “becoming urbanized,” “urban culture,” or “urban adaptation” and will be used with these meanings throughout the study) and their misconceptions on this subject. Data of the research were obtained from the free word association test applied to 74 fourth- and fifth-grade students from the geography teaching department who took the course of urban geography and 67 students from the social sciences teaching department who took the four lessons in which the subjects of urbanization and urbanizing were told by the researcher. Data obtained from the study were classified and categorized according to their semantic relationships by researcher. When categories examined, it is seen that students cannot distinguish the concepts of urbanization and urbanizing thoroughly and they include almost the same statements. This result shows that there are a lot of misconceptions. Although some student-teachers took the course of urban geography and others were presented about the subject briefly, it is difficult to capture a conceptual integrity in perception. Students mostly confuse the concepts of urbanization and urbanizing. In fact they are not even at the cognitive level needed for distinguishing the concepts of urban, urbanize and urbanization. Statements that they wrote about the concepts of urbanization and urbanizing resemble and these statements define the urban more.

Understanding perceptions and beliefs about different types of fermented milks through the application of projective techniques: A case study using Haire's shopping list and free word association

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. e12326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Letícia de Paula F. Pinto ◽  
Hugo L. A. Silva ◽  
Shigeno P. Kuriya ◽  
Paula M. Maçaira ◽  
Fernando L. Cyrino Oliveira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Word Association ◽  
Projective Techniques ◽  
Shopping List ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Free Word

scholarly journals Science Student Teachers’ Cognitive Structure on the Concept of “Food Pyramid”

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derya Cinar
Keyword(s):  
Student Teachers ◽  
Energy Flow ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Cognitive Structure ◽  
Ecological Factors ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Science Student ◽  
Word Association Test ◽  
Food Pyramid ◽  
Free Word

<p class="apa">The current study aims to determine science student teachers’ cognitive structure on the concept of food pyramid. Qualitative research method was applied in this study. Fallacies detected in the pre-service teachers’ conceptual structures are believed to result in students’ developing misconceptions in their future classes and will adversely affect their future teaching performance. The data were collected from 48 science student teachers. A free word association test was used as a data collection instrument. The data collected were subject to content analysis. Analyzing the science student teachers’ responses to the concept of food pyramid on the free word association test, these responses were coded and divided into categories. Based on the categories, frequency and percentages were provided. The data collected through the study were divided into 7 categories, which were stated as follows: -relationship between producer, consumer and decomposer in matter and energy flow-concepts related to nourishment pyramid-definition of food pyramid-energy and matter transfer-producer, consumer and decomposer-elements of ecosystem and ecological factors- scientific disciplines related to food pyramid. When the words provided as answers by the science student teachers to the concept of food pyramid were analyzed, it was noticed that they had more word connections with relationship between producer, consumer and decomposer in matter and energy flow. It can be argued that some students could not produce any sentences and some others could not make meaningful sentences. Moreover, it was determined that they had some misconceptions about food pyramid. Similar research can be conducted with different student groups and for the correction of alternative concepts related to the concept of food pyramid, extra biology courses should be included in undergraduate curriculums.</p>

MULTIPLE REPRESENTATIONS IN DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS’ COGNITIVE STRUCTURES ABOUT THE SAPONIFICATION REACTION

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mónica Baptista ◽  
◽  
Iva Martins ◽  
Teresa Conceição ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Multiple Representations ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Cognitive Structures ◽  
Word Association Test ◽  
Data Collection Instrument ◽  
Development Of Students

The purpose of this research was to know what the effect of the use of multiple representations (MR) was in the development of the students' cognitive structures. This research was conducted in three Grade 12 classes, in a total of 68 students. A Word Association Test (WAT) was used as data collection instrument. The results from WAT show that students’ cognitive structures progressed from pre-test to pos-test, with an increase in the number of response words and connections between words. Keywords: multiple representations, cognitive structures, word association test, saponification reaction.

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