Eight Grade Students’ Nature of Science Understanding and Their Informal Reasoning on Socioscientific Issues

Eight grade students' perceptions of their science learning environment and teachers' interpersonal behavior Rakıcı, Nazan; Çakıroğlu, Jale; Department of Secondary Science and Mathematics Education (2004) This study aimed to explore the students perceptions of science learning environment and teachers̕ interpersonal behavior, and the relationships of these with students̕ cognitive and affective outcomes. In this study, the Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (QTI), the What is Happening In This Class (WIHIC) questionnaire and the Science Attitude scale were used as measuring instruments. This study was conducted in conveniently selected 5 schools throughout the Yenimahalle district of Ankara with a total of...
Eighth grade students' skills in translating among different representations of algebraic concepts Sert, Özlem; Çakıroğlu, Erdinç; Department of Elementary Science and Mathematics Education (2007) The purpose of this study was to determine eighth grade students’ skills of translating among different representations; graphic, table, equation, and verbal sentence; of algebraic concepts. Moreover, it was also aimed to investigate if there is any gender difference regarding the translation skills of students translating multiple representations, and their most common errors in making these translations. For data collection, 18 schools were selected randomly from 103 elementary schools in Çankaya district...
Eighth grade students' emotion regulation strategies during test taking: the role of gender, cognitive appraisal processes, academic self-efficacy, and test anxiety Güçlü, Ayşegül; Çapa Aydın, Yeşim; Department of Educational Sciences (2009) The purpose of the study was to examine the role of test anxiety, academic self-efficacy, and cognitive appraisal processes in predicting eighth grade students’ emotion regulation strategies during test taking. In addition, gender was included as a predictor in the study. The sample of the study consisted of 778 eighth grade students (398 females and 380 males) in 17 schools of Çankaya and Yenimahalle districts in Ankara. Emotion Regulation during Test Taking Scale (ERT) (Schutz, Distefano, Benson, & Davis,...
Eighth grade students' perceptions related to their mathematics teacher's interpersonal behaviors Şimşeker, Münire; Çakıroğlu, Erdinç; Department of Secondary Science and Mathematics Education (2005) The purpose of this study was to investigate eighth grade students̕ perceptions of their mathematics teachers̕ interpersonal behaviors. The study also investigated mathematics teachers̕ perceptions of their own interpersonal behaviors as well as relationships among students̕ perceptions of their teachers̕ interpersonal behaviors, attitudes towards mathematics, mathematics achievements, student gender, teacher gender, and socio-economical background. Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (QTI) scale and a mat...
Seventh grade students' possible solution strategies, errors and misinterpretations regarding the concepts of mean, median and mode given in bar graph representations Enisoğlu, Didem; Işıksal Bostan, Mine; Department of Elementary Science and Mathematics Education (2014) The aim of the present study was to investigate the solution strategies used by seventh grade students and their possible errors while solving questions regarding the concepts of mean, median and mode given in bar graph representations. Students’ possible misinterpretation regarding the concepts of mean, median and mode given in bar graph representations was also examined. Partipants were 233 seventh grade students from two public middle schools in Gelibolu district of Çanakkale. Data were collected via Sta...

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N. F. N. Irmak, Ö. Yılmaz Tüzün, and J. Çakıroğlu, “Eight Grade Students’ Nature of Science Understanding and Their Informal Reasoning on Socioscientific Issues,” presented at the European Educational Research Association (ECER), Geneve, İsviçre, 2021, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://eera-ecer.de/ecer-programmes/conference/26/contribution/50809/.