Determining the pre-service teachers’ perceptions of atom and atomic structure through word association test

dc.authorid0000-0002-5125-0873
dc.authorid0000-0002-9434-7149
dc.contributor.authorEryılmaz Muştu, Özlem
dc.contributor.authorÖzkan, Emin Berk
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-28T06:29:50Z
dc.date.available2019-11-28T06:29:50Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.departmentEğitim Fakültesi
dc.description.abstractThe aim of this study is to determine the pre-service teachers’ perceptions of atom and atomic structure through a word association test. It is important to concretize the concepts having a significant influence on the learning of subjects. Through this concretization, students’ understanding of the concepts and accordingly of the subjects is facilitated. The word association test used in the current study consists of nine key concepts chosen from the unit “Atom and Atomic Structure”. It was given 15 seconds to the participants for each key concept. Content analysis was conducted for the analysis of the data. The frequency table was formed taking into consideration the frequency of given responses. Accordingly, the mind maps were generated to indicate the relations among concepts. With the word association pre-test, it is found that the pre-service teachers couldn’t express many concepts related to the unit correctly. Although the findings of the post-test indicate that there is slight increase in the pre-service teachers’ correct expression of the concepts, the results show that the pre-service teachers still have difficulty in perceiving the concepts in the unit “Atom and Atomic Structure”.
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dc.identifier.endpage-en_US
dc.identifier.issn1609-4913
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityN/A
dc.identifier.startpage-en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12451/6999
dc.identifier.volume20en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherThe Education University of Hong Kong
dc.relation.ispartofAsia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subjectAtom
dc.subjectAtomic Structure
dc.subjectCognitive Structure
dc.subjectMind Maps
dc.subjectPerception
dc.subjectPre-service Science Teachers
dc.subjectWord Association Test
dc.titleDetermining the pre-service teachers’ perceptions of atom and atomic structure through word association test
dc.typeArticle

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