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Pelin Ertekin; Mustafa Serdar Köksal – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2025
The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship among sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade gifted students' spatial reasoning skills, conceptual understanding of basic astronomy topics, and science achievement. To achieve this, the study was designed as a multi-factor predictive correlational study. The research sample consists of 642…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Spatial Ability, Thinking Skills, Grade 6
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Hsieh, Tian-Da; Huang, Shih-Jung – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2021
The purpose of this study is to explore the children's understanding of moon phase changes. Study methods include qualitative and quantitative methods. The subjects of the study are 683 students from grade three to six in an elementary school in New Taipei City. This study uses the method of writing assessment to explore the ideas of elementary…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Elementary School Students
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Biber, Abdullah Çagri; Tuna, Abdulkadir; Dagdelen, Irfan; Kepceoglu, Ibrahim – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2019
In this research, it is aimed to explore how students are able to define parallelogram and to establish relations with other quadrilaterals at each class level comparatively. Case study is chosen as the methodology of this study and the participants of the study are 120 middle school students from a state middle school in Turkey. Two open-ended…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Middle School Students, Public Schools, Concept Formation
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Karadag, Abdulkadir; Uzun, Emine – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2022
This study is an attempt to examine science teachers' views on Argumentation-Based Science Learning (ABSL) and the activities they have prepared. The study employed a qualitative case study method. The working group consisted of 5 science teachers who work in secondary schools affiliated with the Ministry of National Education in Turkey and who…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Persuasive Discourse, Science Instruction
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Çiftçi, Cansu; Memnun, Dilek Sezgin; Aydin, Bünyamin – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2019
In this study, it was aimed to reveal the ideas of the secondary sixth and eighth grade students about the concept of decimal via mental images. Moreover, within the scope of this study, the differences between the mental images of the sixth and eighth grade students about the concept of decimal number will be investigated according to their class…
Descriptors: Imagery, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Grade 8
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Eren, Mehmet; Bulut, Mehmet; Bulut, Neslihan – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2015
The present study aimed to investigate how history of mathematics was integrated to some mathematics textbooks in Turkey. On this account, four different textbooks with different grade levels were chosen. In total, 42 cases were detected and studied by three researchers. Results indicated that the usage of history of mathematics was materialized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Content, Content Analysis