Measuring Nature of Science Views of Middle School Students
Yıl: 2019 Cilt: 6 Sayı: 3 Sayfa Aralığı: 461 - 475 Metin Dili: İngilizce DOI: 10.21449/ijate.561154 İndeks Tarihi: 25-04-2020
Measuring Nature of Science Views of Middle School Students
Öz: Developing scientific literacy for all students is the most oftenstated purpose of contemporary science education. Nature of science (NOS)is seen as an important component of scientific literacy. There are variousperceptions of NOS in the science education community and NOS itself isan ever-changing construct. This makes it challenging to developinstruments for measuring understanding of NOS at different levels. Manyinstruments have been developed and are being developed to assess NOSlearning, which indicates the importance attributed to this subject. In thisstudy, we developed a multiple-choice test to measure NOS understandingof middle school students. The instrument was applied to 1397 middleschool students. The 24 item multiple-choice test had KR-20 reliabilitycoefficient of 0.74. A 12 item multiple-choice test created as a subset of the24 items of the original test. This test was easier and had higherdiscrimination, which can provide useful measurement data about students’understanding of NOS for diagnostic or formative purposes.
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| APA | Yalaki Y, DOĞAN N, İREZ O, Dogan N, ÇAKMAKCI G, ERDEM KARA B (2019). Measuring Nature of Science Views of Middle School Students. International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 6(3), 461 - 475. 10.21449/ijate.561154 |
| Chicago | Yalaki Yalcin,DOĞAN Nuri,İREZ OSMAN SERHAT,Dogan Nihal,ÇAKMAKCI Gültekin,ERDEM KARA Başak Measuring Nature of Science Views of Middle School Students. International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education 6, no.3 (2019): 461 - 475. 10.21449/ijate.561154 |
| MLA | Yalaki Yalcin,DOĞAN Nuri,İREZ OSMAN SERHAT,Dogan Nihal,ÇAKMAKCI Gültekin,ERDEM KARA Başak Measuring Nature of Science Views of Middle School Students. International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, vol.6, no.3, 2019, ss.461 - 475. 10.21449/ijate.561154 |
| AMA | Yalaki Y,DOĞAN N,İREZ O,Dogan N,ÇAKMAKCI G,ERDEM KARA B Measuring Nature of Science Views of Middle School Students. International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education. 2019; 6(3): 461 - 475. 10.21449/ijate.561154 |
| Vancouver | Yalaki Y,DOĞAN N,İREZ O,Dogan N,ÇAKMAKCI G,ERDEM KARA B Measuring Nature of Science Views of Middle School Students. International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education. 2019; 6(3): 461 - 475. 10.21449/ijate.561154 |
| IEEE | Yalaki Y,DOĞAN N,İREZ O,Dogan N,ÇAKMAKCI G,ERDEM KARA B "Measuring Nature of Science Views of Middle School Students." International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 6, ss.461 - 475, 2019. 10.21449/ijate.561154 |
| ISNAD | Yalaki, Yalcin vd. "Measuring Nature of Science Views of Middle School Students". International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education 6/3 (2019), 461-475. https://doi.org/10.21449/ijate.561154 |
