TY  - JOUR
TT  - EXAMINATION 8TH GRADE STUDENTS’ COGNITIVE STRUCTURES ABOUT PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL CHANGES THROUGH WORD ASSOCIATION TEST
AU  - Nakiboglu, Canan
PY  - 2017
DA  - August
JF  - The Eurasia Proceedings of Educational and Social Sciences
JO  - EPESS
PB  - ISRES Publishing
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2587-1730
SP  - 49
EP  - 51
VL  - 7
KW  - Eight school students
KW  - cognitive structures
KW  - physical and chemical changes
KW  - WAT
N2  - Inthis study it is aimed to investigate middle schoolstudents’ cognitive structures of physical and chemical changes through wordassociation test (WAT). The data were collected from 126 eight grade students.The WAT was used as data a data collection instrument developed by theresearcher in her previous study. At the beginning of the study, the physicaland chemical change topic placed in the middle school science curriculum wasexamined and also the opinions of the two science teachers were asked toestablish the content validity of the stimulus words of WAT. The same WATcomprised of eight total stimulus words was decided to use withoutmodification. The response frequency mapping method was used to examinestudents’ cognitive structure which was developed by the researcher. At the endof the study, it was found that all stimulus words appeared and were added to themap at the frequency range 16≤f≤20 as five separate islands. Besides, it wasconcluded that the eight grade students, likeninth and tenth grade students, could not associate with the concept of energywith other concepts of the subject.
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UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/epess/issue//332652
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/331839
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