Investigating elementary students’ nature of science views

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2009-04-17

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Hacıeminoğlu, Esma
Yılmaz Tüzün, Özgül
Ertepınar, Hamide

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The purposes of this study were to explain the development and validation of a new instrument for assessing elementary students’ views of the Nature of Science (NOS) and to give detailed information about the elementary school students NOS views with respect to grade level. The sample included 4044 students enrolled in sixth, seventh and eighth grade elementary schools located in Ankara, Turkey.Data collection was carried out during the spring 2008. Confirmatory factor analysis was run to determine the factors of the NOS scale. Descriptive statistics and one way ANOVA were used to determine students’ understanding of NOS in terms of grade level. The final version of NOSI included 20 items. These items were loaded in four factors namely, the distinction between observation and inference(OI), the role of imagination and creativity in generating scientific knowledge(IC), the tentative nature of scientific knowledge(TE), and the empirical nature of scientific knowledge(EM). Cronbach’s alpha reliability of this version was calculated as .63. Results indicated that elementary students had favorable understanding of the EM while being uncertain about understanding of TE and IC. Moreover, low means of OI indicated that elementary students didn’t differentiate observations from inferences. Grade Level had significant main effect on students’ understanding of NOS aspects.

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https://narst.org/sites/default/files/2019-07/2009_Abstracts.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/75047

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The National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), (17 - 21 Nisan 2009)

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Department of Mathematics and Science Education, Conference / Seminar

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E. Hacıeminoğlu, Ö. Yılmaz Tüzün, and H. Ertepınar, “Investigating elementary students’ nature of science views,” California, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, 2009, p. 221, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://narst.org/sites/default/files/2019-07/2009_Abstracts.pdf.