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PROJE DESTEKLI KIMYA LABORATUVARı UYGULAMALARıNıN BAZı BILIşSEL VE DUYUşSAL ALAN BILEşENLERINE ETKISI

İnci Morgil, Hatice Gungor Seyhan, Nilgun Secken

Turk Fen Egitimi Dergisi

2009

Turkish

Research

School Directors, Researchers, Teachers

Over 10 pages

The authors’ main aim in this article is to illustrate the results of a research conducted about why the students are responsible for their own learning process and they cooperate with other students in learning. And it gives some information about a group of students who enters to the laboratory and sees concrete things ,and they learn by experiencing. It show it has a positive effect on the students’ skills of thinking and commenting.
In the introduction part, the paper show some reasons as to why activities which are conducted in the laboratories have an important role in the Science curriculum by stating that it provides many benefits. It also presents that there are different approaches and thoughts about the laboratory and the aims of the laboratory activities in their education of Science. It also illustrate the place and the importance of laboratory in Science Education. What it tells about the main aim of the activity is that It enables an environment which enables an environment where they can produce their own information. The students enhanced their skills of questioning, creating hypotheses.
In another paragraph which give information about the methods, the authors show some methods which were used in experiments such as exemplification, the means of gathering data, the scale of approach towards Chemistry, the scale of approach towards Chemistry Laboratory, Anxiety Orientation-Motivation Questionnaire, Test of skills of Scientific application, the problems encountered in the laboratories and lastly, the interviews with teacher candidates. It also gives some information about some implementations which are carried out the research and the list of the experiments which are carried out.
At the findings paragraph the author mentions that they aim to illustrate that prior to and after the experimental applications, experiments are conducted with the teacher candidates’ KTÖ, KLTÖ, KO-MA and BİBT front-back scores by analyzing the final performances of teacher candidates and the data which are learned from LKGA.
Under the discussion and the recommendation paragraph, the authors states that the approach based on the projects is a model in which there are no short practices during the class and the learning activities which are different from the teacher centered classes and which are adapted to instead multidisciplinal, student centered and the real topics and experiences from the world and which emphasize the in-class learning activities. After their discussions, the authors end the paper with their recommendations within the framework of the research.

We find this paper really beneficial for the teachers who have their classes in the laboratories. Judging from the paper, I think classes which are given in the laboratories have the ability to be concrete thanks to the concrete materials which exist in the laboratories. It enables the students to learn better and easier. Because the materials which are used in the experimentations are from the students’ real world, namely and again, they are concrete. So they make the information they learn more concrete and easier to learn and remember because they learn the topics by experiencing them. It also gives the opportunity of increasing their enthusiasm and interest for Chemistry because they are eccentric, strange. As a result, they attract the students’ attention. They also help the students to enhance their abilities for asking questions, producing hypotheses etc. The paper also gives some useful strategies which have many effects for many perspectives. Lastly, the authors give some suggestions to the teachers about what the classes should involve, by whom the class should be given and who is the centered people in the classes.

Kırıkkale University