Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
The European Conference on Educational Research, Kobenhavn, Danimarka, 21 - 25 Ağustos 2017, ss.1-3, (Özet Bildiri)
The purpose of this study is to investigate preservice science teachers’ representations of physical and chemical changes and explore how they use representations in their teaching physical and chemical changes at the sixth grade. The research was guided by the following research questions: How do preservice science teachers represent physical and chemical changes at submicroscopic level and symbolic1.
level? In other word, how do preservice teachers transfer macroscopic representation level of physical and chemical change to the submicroscopic and the symbolic representation level? How do preservice science teachers integrate multiple representations of physical and chemical changes in their2. teaching at the sixth grade?
A qualitative research method was adopted in this study. The study is conducted in fall 2016 at one of the large western universities in Turkey. Data were collected from open-ended questionnaires regarding physical and chemical change and lesson plans for teaching these topics in sixth grade. The study consisted of two main phases: At the first phase, participants’ representations of physical and chemical change were identified by using open ended questionnaires. At the second phase, participants’ use of representations for teaching physical and chemical change were studied by analyzing lesson plans. Data collection took approximately four weeks. Participants were senior students studying at the department of science education. All three type of data were collected from forty four students who were voluntarily participated in the study.