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Çetikaya, Fatih Çetin; Sönmez, Muhammet; Topçam, Abdurrahman Baki – International Education Studies, 2020
This research was carried out to determine the effectiveness and functionality of the word association test (WAT), which is a formative assessment tool that is frequently emphasized on today's modern education systems. The study group consisted of 60 students in a public school in Kocaeli in the school year 2018-2019. Participants were identified…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Associative Learning, Instructional Effectiveness, Public Schools
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Sadoglu, Gunay Palic; Durukan, Ummu Gulsum – European Journal of Physics Education, 2017
The purpose of this study is to determine perceptions of elementary prospective teachers about the basic concepts of physics including force, motion, speed, velocity, acceleration and displacement. This research, as a qualitative study, had a study group that constitutes of 35 elementary prospective teachers who successfully completed general…
Descriptors: Physics, Scientific Concepts, Preservice Teachers, Motion
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Derman, Aysegul; Eilks, Ingo – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2016
Understanding students' cognitive structures in a specific knowledge domain helps to determine the ''what, how and why'' features of such knowledge, so that we can take these structures into consideration in teaching. The purpose of the present study was to identify students' cognitive structures about solution and dissolution concepts. The study…
Descriptors: High School Students, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Cognitive Structures
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Bilici, Sedef Canbazoglu – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The purpose of the study was to examine science teachers' knowledge structures on technology, who participated in a TPACK-based Professional Development (PD) program. The PD program was executed in the summer of 2015-2016 academic year with 24 science teachers. Data was collected with the Word Association Test (WAT). A holistic case study approach…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Eren, Fetah; Sahin, Ismail; Celik, Ismail; Akturk, Ahmet Oguz – Online Submission, 2014
The aim of this study is to discover secondary school students' perceptions related to information technologies and the connections between concepts in their cognitive structures. A word association test consisting of six concepts related to information technologies is used to collect data from 244 secondary school students. Concept maps that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Information Technology
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Aydin, Fatih – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2015
Background: Today, for most of us, technology is a vital and inevitable part of our lives. Due to its widespread use, a great emphasis is being given to educating generations about technology. And, every individual has his/her own style of organizing and collecting information. Purpose: The purpose of the present study is to identify the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Cognitive Style, Science Education