Eighth grade students' nature of science understanding

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2021-10-01

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Irmak, Nesibe Fatıma Nur
Yılmaz-Tüzün, Özgül
Çakıroğlu, Jale

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Nature of science (NOS) understanding was seen as an important component for scientificliteracy (Lederman, 2007). The purpose of the study is to investigate eighth grade students’ NOSunderstanding about three tenets of NOS tentativeness, empirical-based and subjectivity. The sampleconsisted of 414 eighth grade students from four different public middle schools. The data werecollected in the fall semester of 2019-2020 academic year. To collect data, the Views of Nature ofScience Elementary Level (VNOS-E) Questionnaire was used. To analyze students’ NOS understanding,the researchers used the rubric formed based on the rubric developed and used in the study of Akersonand Donnelly (2010). Based on this rubric, the researchers classified the participants’ views asinadequate, adequate, or informed for each NOS tenet. Then, inadequate views scored as 1, adequateviews scored as 2, and informed views scored as 3. The findings of descriptive statistics revealed thatstudents held adequate understanding mostly about tentativeness (M=1.59, SD=0.52). Then,respectively, they held adequate understanding about empirical-based (M=1.46, SD=0.55) andsubjectivity (M=1.30, SD=0.50). About 43% of the students held inadequate, about 56% of them heldadequate and only about 1% of them held informed understanding on tentativeness tenet. About 57%of the students held inadequate, about 40% of them held adequate and about 3% of them heldinformed understanding on empirical-based tenet. About 72% of the students had inadequate, about27% of them had adequate and only about 1% of them had informed understanding about subjectivitytenet. The findings showed that almost half or more than half of the students have inadequate NOSunderstanding on these three tenets. Based on the findings, suggestions were made to improvestudents’ NOS understanding.

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3rd International Conference on Science, Mathematics, Entrepreneurship and Technology Education

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N. F. N. Irmak, Ö. Yılmaz-Tüzün, and J. Çakıroğlu, “Eighth grade students’ nature of science understanding,” presented at the 3rd International Conference on Science, Mathematics, Entrepreneurship and Technology Education, Bursa, Türkiye, 2021, Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: http://fmgtegitimikongresi.com/dosyalar/files/%2B2021_ozetler_v1.pdf.