Changing syllabus gives a great importance to the association of acquired knowledge with everyday life. Students come to the secondary level of education; they are expected to explain some everyday life events about ...

To analyze students' submicroscopic representations of atoms, molecules and ionic lattice structures a survey design was implemented in the study in which high school Grade 9 Turkish students (n= 100) were participated. ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the current science and technology curriculum for the balance of scientific literacy (SL) aspects and its potential to educate scientifically literate citizens. Human body ...

This paper focuses on making science easier to understand for all students. The traditional way of defining science teaching has in recent years proven to be limited. Hence the picture of the science classroom to date ...

The purpose of this study was to identify the views of primary school supervisors regarding the 4th and 5th grades Science and Technology teaching program developed in 2004. Eight school administrators working in Bolu ...

In this study aims to determine the status of pre-service science teachers' subject matter knowledge of nature of science (SMK of NOS) and investigate in which contents they are inadequate, if any, and/or they have naive ...

Education must constantly be adapted to new needs. Educational tasks determine new styles of teachers' work and also their competences, showing that the effects of the course of didactic process depend on the teacher's ...

In this study, science logs were used in order to investigate students' skills to relate science and daily life. The purpose of the study was to determine what kind of relations students can generally form between science ...

This study aimed at investigating firstly, whether gender differences exist in Turkish middle school students' use of coping strategies in science classes, and secondly, whether there are mean level differences in ...

The aim of this study is to examine the effectiveness of the lesson plan that is prepared for the purpose of enabling the first year pre-service physics teachers to be acquainted with one another and to learn the rules ...