Evaluation of Secondary School Students' Knowledge, Skills and Behaviour Proficiencies Based on Natural Disaster Scenarios

Abstract

In the globalizing world, the students' proficiency to convey the knowledge, skills, and behaviour they have acquired in-school education process to their social lives has a vital importance. Because; as well as accessing information, having developed skill for using the information and solving problem is one of the essential factors in the realization of the purpose of raising effective individuals too. In this context, the aim is to evaluate the proficiency of the students’ knowledge, skill, and behaviour based on natural disaster scenarios in the framework of the case study. The sample consists of 6th and 7th grade students selected by the convenience sampling method. The total number of students is 32. The data was collected with five open-ended questions through online applications. Also, descriptive analysis was used in a holistic manner. Theoretically, it was determined that the great majority of the students had sufficient knowledge, skill, and behaviour to deal with possible disasters and the ability to distinguish cases from each other. However, they had difficulties in interpreting the events by establishing a cause-effect relationship and basing the occurrence of disasters on a scientific basis. According to results; with the addition of scenario-based practical applications to the course process, the students can analyse events with a more realistic perspective by establishing cause-effect relationships between events. In addition, it’s recommended that not only disaster definitions should be presented in textbooks but also various case study scenarios should be added to them.

Keywords

• Case study
• disaster awareness
• online data collection
• proficiency
• scenario-based questions.

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