A STUDY OF DEVELOPING SCIENTIFIC PROCESS SKILLS INVENTORY TOWARDS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COURSE
Öz
It is required to test the serviceability of Science and Technology Course Curriculum. For this reason, measurement tools are required in order to measure different instructional areas. Therefore, it is thought that it is necessary to present different measurement and evaluation methods to both educators and researchers in this area instead of developing an inventory similar to the existing inventories containing only multiple-choice questions which are used now in the area. In this context, developing, reliability and validity studies of “Scientific Process Skills Inventory Towards Science and Technology Course” had been performed in the study in order to provide the Science and Technology teachers and the researchers performing investigations related to this area to measure and evaluate the Scientific Process Skills attainments existing in Science and Technology Course Curriculum by means of different measurement methods. At the end of the reliability and validity studies, a double-stage reliable and valid measurement tool containing different types of questions was obtained.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Science process skills, science and technology education, developing a scale
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