The analyze of the relation between astronomy knowledge with the nature of science and the astronomy self-efficacy belief of pre-service teachers (original) (raw)

TEZ8028Tez (Yüksek Lisans) -- Çukurova Üniversitesi, Adana, 2010.Kaynakça (s. 86-94) var.xiii, 102 s. : res., tab. ; 29 cm.The aim of this research is analyzing the relation between astronomy knowledge with the nature of science and the astronomy self-efficacy belief of pre-service teachers from science & technology department and the social studies department. The research carried out with a total of 127 participants from Çukurova University. They were 55 (36 female, 19 male) pre-service science & technology teachers and 72 (21 female, 51 male) pre-service social studies teachers. Instruments were applied during the spring semester of 2009-2010 education year. Basic Astronomy Knowledge Test was developed from using of tests which applied by Zeilik(1998), Trumper(2000) and Kalkan (2007) and the KR-20 result was calculated 0.64. Another instrument was astronomy self-efficacy belief scale that developed by Riggs & Enochs (1990) and translated into Turkish by Özkan, Tekkaya ve Çakıroğl...