Adaptation of an epistemological belief instrument towards chemistry and chemistry lessons

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 i...

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Published inProcedia, social and behavioral sciences Vol. 15; pp. 3718 - 3722
Main Authors Yıldıran, Demet, Demirci, Nilgün, Tüysüz, Mustafa, Bektas, Oktay, Geban, Ömer
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 2011
Subjects
adaptation
chemistry education
epistemological beliefs
epistemology
pre-service teachers
chemistry education
adaptation
epistemological beliefs
pre-service teachers
epistemology
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1877-0428
1877-0428
DOI:10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.04.362