Turkish primary school students’ performance on basic science process skills (original) (raw)
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Individuals benefit from science process skills while trying to solve problems through research (Bağcı-Kılıç, 2003). To solve these problems individuals must acquire sufficient science process skills. Teachers must be able to understand these skills so that students can obtain the required proficiency (Mutisya, Rotich & Rotich, 2013). This study aims to investigate the science process skills of elementary school teachers in terms of gender, seniority, working place and their students' grades. This quantitative study was carried out as a survey. The study population consisted of 158 elementary school teachers from a province located in the Aegean region of Turkey. Researchers obtained study data from "Science Process Skills Test for Teachers (SPSTFT)". SPSTFT consists of 7 scenarios and 9 questions (multiple choice questions were explained with reasons). The results of the study revealed that the integrated skills of elementary school teachers are not sufficient. It also indicated that science process skill scores of elementary school teachers differed significantly by gender and seniority. This study suggests conducting some further studies to bring the science process skills of elementary teachers to the desired level.
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Basic Science Process Skills (BAPS) are some of the scientific skills used to obtain, process, build and apply scientific theories. Basic science process skills are not only useful in learning science but also for students' daily lives. Therefore, it is very important to master science process skills from the age of teenagers who are in the Junior High School phase. This analysis aims to obtain a profile description of the basic science process skills of Junior High School students. The research method used is descriptive method with research subjects as many as five Junior High Schools in South Sumatra Province as many as 505 students as samples. The data collection technique used is a test technique using 25 questions about the basic ability test of the science process. The data were obtained directly from the VIII grade Junior High School students, after the data were recapitulated and then analyzed by simple statistical analysis. Based on the results of the research that has...
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