Fen Bilgisi Öğretmen Adaylarında Bir Çizgi Grafiğinin Görsel ve Bilişsel Yapılandırılması

Abstract

Bu araştırma, öğretmen adaylarının biyoloji konusuna ilişkin bir çizgi grafiği oluşturma sürecini açıklamak ve böylece çizdikleri grafikle ilgili yorumlarını anlamak amacıyla yapılmıştır.Bu kapsamda araştırma bir devlet üniversitesinin ikinci sınıfında öğretim gören 2013-2014 güz döneminde 55, 2015-2016 güz döneminde 66 ve 2016-2017 güz döneminde 59 olmak üzere toplam 180 fen bilgisi öğretmen adayı ile yürütülmüştür. Araştırma doküman analizi çerçevesinde yürütülmüştür. Verilerin kaynağını üç yıl boyunca toplanan genel biyoloji laboratuvar dersinin dönem sonu değerlendirme kağıtları oluşturmaktadır. Değerlendirilen açık uçlu sorularda öğretmen adaylarından bir probleme yönelik çizgi grafik çizmeleri ve bu grafiği yorumlayarak mantıksal çıkarım yapmaları beklenmiştir. Fen bilgisi öğretmen adaylarının yanıtları çizgi grafiğini çizmedeki görsel ve bilişsel yapılandırmalarının değerlendirilmesi çerçevesinde yapılmıştır. Elde edilen bulgulara göre, öğretmen adaylarının görsel ve bilişsel yapılandırma becerilerinin zayıf olduğu, grafikten mantıksal çıkarımlar yapabilmelerinin grafik çizme ve yorumlama becerilerine göre daha yetersiz olduğu söylenebilir.

Keywords

• Bilişsel yapılandırma
• Görsel yapılandırma
• Çizgi Grafiği
• Grafik Çizme

Evaluation of Pre-Service Science Teachers' Visual and Cognitive Constructions of A Line Graph

Abstract

This research was conducted in order to explain the process of creating a line graph on the subject of biology by pre-service teachers and thus to understand their comments about the graph they drew. In this context, the research was conducted with 180 pre-service science teachers, 55 in the 2013-2014 fall semester, 66 in the 2015-2016 fall semester, and 59 in the 2016-2017 fall semester, who were studying in the second year of a state university. The research was carried out within the framework of document analysis. The data source is the end-of-term evaluation form of the general biology laboratory course collected for three years The answers of the pre-service science teachers were made within the framework of evaluating their visual and cognitive construction in drawing the line graph. According to the findings, it can be stated that pre-service teachers have poor visual construction skills and cognitive construction skills and their ability to make logical inferences from a graph is less efficient when compared to graph drawing and interpretation skills.

Keywords

• Cognitive construction
• Graph Drawing
• Line Graph
• Visual construction

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