Adaptation of an epistemological belief instrument towards chemistry and chemistry lessons

Yildiran D., Demirci N., Tuysuz M., Bektas O., GEBAN Ö.

3rd World Conference on Educational Sciences (WCES), İstanbul, Türkiye, 3 - 07 Şubat 2011, cilt.15 identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Cilt numarası: 15
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.04.362
  • Basıldığı Şehir: İstanbul
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Türkiye
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The purpose of this study was adapting an instrument into Turkish which is developed by a research group in California University for identifying pre-service science teachers' epistemological beliefs toward chemistry. The adapted instrument is a likert type instrument with five scales, includes 18 items and it was applied to 100 pre-service sicence teachers to determine their epistemological beliefs in 2009-2010 spring semester. The reliability of the instrument was found as .59. It was concluded that this adapted instrument can be used to determine teachers' and students' epistemological beliefs toward chemistry. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.