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Cetin-Dindar, Ayla; Geban, Omer – Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of 5E learning cycle model oriented instruction (LCMI) on 11th-grade students' conceptual understanding of acids and bases concepts and student motivation to learn chemistry. The study, which lasted for 7 weeks, involved two groups: An experimental group (LCMI) and a control group (the…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Science Instruction, Chemistry, Thinking Skills
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Cigdemoglu, Ceyhan; Geban, Omer – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2015
The aim of this study was to delve into the effect of context-based approach (CBA) over traditional instruction (TI) on students' chemical literacy level related to thermochemical and thermodynamics concepts. Four eleventh-grade classes with 118 students in total taught by two teachers from a public high school in 2012 fall semester were enrolled…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Thermodynamics, Teaching Methods, Grade 11
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Koksal, Mustafa Serdar; Cakiroglu, Jale; Geban, Omer – Journal of Biological Education, 2013
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of explicit-embedded-reflective (EER) instruction in nature of science (NOS) understandings of ninth-grade advanced science students. This study was conducted with 71 students, who were divided into three groups, by using non-equivalent quasi-experimental design. In the treatment…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Scientific Principles, Reflective Teaching, Instructional Effectiveness
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Cam, Aylin; Geban, Omer – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2011
The purpose of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of case-based learning instruction over traditionally designed chemistry instruction on eleventh grade students' epistemological beliefs and their attitudes toward chemistry as a school subject. The subjects of this study consisted of 63 eleventh grade students from two intact classes…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Chemistry, Grade 11
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Kingir, Sevgi; Geban, Omer; Gunel, Murat – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2012
This study investigates the effects of the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH), known as an argumentation-based science inquiry approach, on Grade 9 students' performance on a post-test in relation to their academic achievement levels. Four intact classes taught by 2 chemistry teachers from a Turkish public high school were selected for the study; one…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Chemistry, Heuristics
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Cetingul, Ipek; Geban, Omer – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2011
This study was conducted to explore the effectiveness of conceptual change oriented instruction over traditional instruction on students' understanding of acids and bases concept. Besides, effects of gender difference and science process skills on students' understanding of acids and bases were also investigated. Analysis of the results showed…
Descriptors: Science Process Skills, Gender Differences, Misconceptions, Conventional Instruction
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Cetin, Pinar Seda; Kaya, Ebru; Geban, Omer – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2009
The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of conceptual change oriented instruction (CCOI) over traditionally designed chemistry instruction (TDCI) on overcoming 10th grade students' misconceptions on gases concepts. In addition, the effect of gender difference on students' understanding of gases concepts was investigated. The…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Chemistry, Grade 10
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Ceylan, Eren; Geban, Omer – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2009
The main purpose of the study was to compare the effectiveness of 5E learning cycle model based instruction and traditionally designed chemistry instruction on 10th grade students' understanding of state of matter and solubility concepts. In this study, 119 tenth grade students from chemistry courses instructed by same teacher from an Anatolian…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Chemistry, Learning Processes
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Baser, Mustafa; Geban, Omer – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2007
This study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of learning activities based on conceptual change conditions and traditionally designed physics instruction on tenth-grade students' understanding of static electricity concepts and their attitudes toward physics as a school subject. Misconceptions related to static electricity concepts…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Misconceptions, Learning Activities, Experimental Groups
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Pabuccu, Aybuke; Geban, Omer – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2006
The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of conceptual change texts oriented instruction on 9th grade students' understanding of chemical bonding concepts. In this study, the main aim of the preparation of conceptual change texts was to activate students' prior knowledge and misconceptions and to help them to understand the chemical…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Prior Learning, Chemistry, Grade 9
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Pinarbasi, Tacettin; Canpolat, Nurtac; Bayrakceken, Samih; Geban, Omer – Research in Science Education, 2006
This study investigated the effect of conceptual change text-oriented instruction over traditional instruction on students' understanding of solution concepts (e.g., dissolving, solubility, factors affecting solubility, concentrations of solutions, types of solutions, physical properties of solutions) and their attitudes towards chemistry. The…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Experimental Groups, Conventional Instruction, Control Groups
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Bilgin, Ibrahim; Geban, Omer – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2006
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of the cooperative learning approach based on conceptual change conditions over traditional instruction on 10th grade students' conceptual understanding and achievement of computational problems related to chemical equilibrium concepts. The subjects of this study consisted of 87 tenth grade…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Concept Formation, Chemistry, Conventional Instruction
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Ozkan, Ozlem; Tekkaya, Ceren; Geban, Omer – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2004
In this study, the effect of conceptual-change-texts-oriented instruction to seventh-grade students' understanding of ecological concepts was investigated. Using information collected through interviews and related literature, the Ecology Concept Test was developed and administered to 58 elementary students in two classes of an elementary school…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Pretests Posttests, Conventional Instruction, Control Groups
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Yilmaz, Serkan; Eryilmaz, Ali; Geban, Omer – School Science and Mathematics, 2006
The effects of bridging analogies teaching strategy and gender on Turkish high school students' misconceptions in mechanics were investigated. After a pilot study with 67 students in a nearby high school, the researchers' administered the revised Mechanics Misconception Test to 119 high school students as a pretest. Students in the experimental…
Descriptors: High School Students, Teaching Methods, Experimental Groups, Misconceptions
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Sungur, Semra; Tekkaya, Ceren; Geban, Omer – Journal of Biological Education, 2006
In this study, the effect of problem-based learning on students' academic achievement and performance skills in a unit on the human excretory system was investigated. Sixty-one 10th grade students, from two full classes instructed by the same biology teacher, were involved in the study. Classes were randomly assigned as either the experimental or…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Academic Achievement, Problem Based Learning
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