THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PRE-SERVICE SCIENCE TEACHERS' SCIENTIFIC PROCESS SKILLS AND LEARNING STYLES

Abstract

In the present study, the purpose is to determine the relationship between the pre service science teachers' scientific process skills and their learning styles. For this purpose, the study was carried out with 151 1th and 4th year students attending Science Teacher Education Department of Education Faculty at Muğla University. In the study, survey method is used. The pre-service teachers' learning styles were determined through "Kolb Learning Style Inventory" adapted to Turkish by Aşkar and Akkoyunlu (1993). In order to evaluate the pre-service teachers' scientific process skills; "Scientific Process Skills Test" developed by Burns, Okey and Wise (1985) to determine the scientific process skills of high school and university students and adopted to Turkish by Ateş ve Bahar (2004) was used. When SPS scores are generally examined, it is seen that the pre-service teachers having separating and changing learning styles have higher SPS scores when compared to the pre-service teachers having the other learning styles.