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标题：Examining Biology Teachers Candidates’ Scientific Process Skill Levels and Comparing these Levels in Terms of Various Variables
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作者：Sevilay Erkol ; Sevilay Erkol ; Ilker Ugulu 等
期刊名称：Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1877-0428
出版年度：2014
卷号：116
页码：4742-4747
DOI：10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.01.1019
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：It is very important to develop students science process skills which have considerable role in educational settings in order to facilitate students’ learning abilities, support their critical thinking skills and make them competent in research ways and methods in science and social sciences. One of the most useful steps to promote scientific process skills is to train teachers which have gained these skills. In this aspect, the aim of this study is to determine the biology teacher candidates’ levels of scientific process skills and to compare the different variables. For this reason, Scientific Method Abilities Test (SMAT) which has 36 multiple choice questions,is applied to 121 biology pre-service teachers enrolling in Necatibey Faculty of Education of Balkesir University. The results of this study show that scientific process skill levels of pre-service biology teachers’ need to be developed and that there are no statistically significant difference between pre-service in terms of gender and age, except there is for the class level. When theresults of the study compared to other similar studies, it can be regarded that science process skill levels of biology student teachers’ is in an intermediate level (20, 43) which is lower than other studies.
关键词：Scientific process skills;Biology teacher candidates;The scientific methods abilities test