Examining Science Teachers’ Knowledge Levels about Science Content and Process Skills

Volume: 17 Number: 3 August 1, 2016
  • Gül Çoban
  • Merve Sağlam
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Examining Science Teachers’ Knowledge Levels about Science Content and Process Skills

Abstract

In order to contribute to design more effective learning environments, the purpose of this study is to determine science teachers’ knowledge level about science content, science process skills level and how these two key products affects each other. Survey method was used and 71 science teachers were participated in this study. “Science Content Knowledge Survey” and “Science Process Skills Test” were used as data collection tool. It was found that there was a positive but weak correlation between teachers’ science content knowledge level and science process skills knowledge level in the results of analysis. At the same time, when examining teachers’ science process skills knowledge level it was determined that they were the most successful in classification skill and were the most insufficient in measuring skill. When examining science content knowledge levels, it was draw the attention that teachers were more successful in determining scientific laws and were more unseccussful in determining scientific theories than the other scientific products. However, it was found that teachers had difficulty to distinguish scientific facts from scientific law, concept, generalization and theory

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Turkish

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Authors

Gül Çoban This is me

Merve Sağlam This is me

Publication Date

August 1, 2016

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Year 1970 Volume: 17 Number: 3

APA
Çoban, G., & Sağlam, M. (2016). Fen Bilimleri Öğretmenlerinin Bilimsel İçerik ve Süreç Becerileri Bilgi Düzeylerinin İncelenmesi. Ahi Evran Üniversitesi Kırşehir Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, 17(3), 261-279. https://izlik.org/JA44LM82KR