TY  - JOUR
TI  - Measuring Nature of Science Views of Middle School Students
AB  - 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.
AU  - Yalaki, Yalcin
AU  - DOĞAN, Nuri
AU  - Dogan, Nihal
AU  - İREZ, OSMAN SERHAT
AU  - ÇAKMAKCI, Gültekin
AU  - ERDEM KARA, Başak
DO  - 10.21449/ijate.561154
PY  - 2019
JO  - International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education
VL  - 6
IS  - 3
SN  - 2148-7456
SP  - 461
EP  - 475
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/333940
ER  -