APOS Teorisine Yönelik Çalışmaların Bir Analizi

Year 2019, Volume: 8 Issue: 16, 242 - 251, 30.12.2019

Funda Bayraktar , Tayfun Tutak , Aziz İlhan

Abstract

Bu çalışmada 2000-2019 yılları arasında yazılmış olan APOS (Action-Process-Object-Schema) (Eylem–Süreç– Nesne–Şema) teorisine yönelik bilimsel araştırmaları incelemek amaçlanmıştır. Araştırma betimsel nitelikte olup durum tespiti yapılmıştır. Alanyazın taraması yapılırken uluslararası alanda en çok taranan Web of Science, ERIC, EBSCO ve ULAKBİM veri tabanları tercih edilmiş, Bu veri tabanlarından 2000-2019 yıllarında ulaşılan çalışmalar araştırma kapsamına dâhil edilmiştir. Bu doğrultuda yapılan literatür çalışmasında on iki adet Türkçe ve yirmi dokuz adet yabancı araştırmaya ulaşılmıştır. Ulaşılan bu kırk bir araştırma doküman analizi yöntemiyle yayınlanan üniversite, ülke, yıl, örneklem grubu, örneklemin öğrenim seviyesi ve araştırma metodu kriterlerine göre incelenmiştir. Elde edilen bulgular frekanslar yardımıyla tablolaştırılarak okuyucuya sunulmuştur. Yapılan çalışma sonucunda Türkiye’de bu alanda on iki adet çalışma olduğu, çalışmaların yoğunlukla yurt dışında bulunduğu, yıllara göre çalışma sayılarının benzerlik gösterdiği, araştırmaların çoğunlukla üniversite öğrencileri üzerinde yapıldığı, sınıf düzeyine göre çalışma sayılarının benzerlik gösterdiği ve nitel çalışmaların nicel ve karma araştırmalara göre daha yoğunlukta olduğu sonuçlarına ulaşılmıştır. Çalışmada elde edilen bulgular çerçevesinde APOS teorisine ilişkin önerilerde bulunulmuştur.

Keywords

Matematik eğitimi, APOS teorisi, zihinsel yapılar, bilişsel beceriler, şema

AN ANALYSIS OF THE STUDIES ON THE APOS THEORY

Abstract

In this study, it is aimed to examine scientific researches about APOS (Action-Process-Object-Schema) theory written between 2000-2019. The research was descriptive and the situation was determined. While searching the literature, Web of Science, ERIC, EBSCO and ULAKBİM databases which are the most searched internationally were preferred. The studies reached from these databases in 2000-2019 were included in the research scope. In this respect, in the literature study, twelve Turkish and twenty-nine foreign researches were reached. Forty one of these researches were analyzed according to the criteria of university, country, year, sample group, education level of the sample and research method published by document analysis method. The findings were tabulated with the help of frequencies and presented to the reader. The studies result in Turkey, where twelve studies in this area, which abroad the intensity of the work, according to the year in which the similarity of the number of studies is made mostly on college students' research, the similarity of the number of working on the grade level and according to quantitative and mixed research of qualitative studies density was reached. In the framework of the findings obtained in the study, suggestions were made about the APOS theory.

Keywords

Mathematics education, APOS theory, mental structures, cognitive skills, schema

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