ANALYSIS OF PROSPECTIVE CHEMISTRY TEACHERS’ VIEWS ON MODELS ACCORDING TO SOLO (STRUCTURE OF OBSERVED LEARNING OUTCOMES) TAXONOMY

Year 2016, Volume: 4 , 424 - 428, 01.09.2016

Cem Gültekin Canan Nakiboğlu

Abstract

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In this study it was investigated
prospective chemistry teachers’ views on the nature of models and the use of
models and modeling in chemistry teaching by using Structure of Observed
Learning Outcomes (SOLO) taxonomy. A qualitative study was performed on 16
prospective chemistry teachers who attended the fifth grade. Three open-ended
questions were used as the data collection tool. The assessment scale, prepared
by the researchers, was employed to make the descriptive analysis of what
understanding levels on the SOLO prospective teachers’ answers corresponded to.
The views of the prospective teachers about the model definition were usually
found to be in the pre-structural level, which is the lowest level and no view
was identified to be at the highest level, which is the extended abstract. The
prospective teachers’ views regarding the use of models were generally in the
pre-structural and untistructural levels and no view in the extended abstract
level could be identified.

Keywords

Models, prospective chemistry teachers, SOLO taxonomy

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