The main aim of this study to investigate the effectiveness of conceptual change texts oriented instruction accompanied with analogies over traditionally designed chemistry instruction on overcoming 10th grade students&rsquo / misconceptions, their understanding atoms and molecules concepts and attitude towards chemistry as a school subject .
45 tenth grades students from two classes of a chemistry course taught by the same teacher in Elmadag High School prticipated in the study that was carried out in 2004 &ndash / 2005 Fall semester .
Two student groups participated in the study . One of them , called as Experimental
group , was instructed with conceptual change text oriented instruction accompanied with analogies and the other one , called as Control group , was instructed with traditionally designed chemistry instruction over a period of two weeks .
To investigate the effect of the treatment , Atoms and Molecules Concept Test and Attitude Scale Toward Chemistry as a school subject were administrated to all students in both groups at the begining and end of the the treatment . To evaluate students&rsquo / science process skills , Science Process Skills Test was administrated before treatment .
ANCOVA and ANOVA were used to test the hypothesis of the study . The result of the study showed that students instructed with conceptual change text oriented instruction accompanied with analogies gained higher average scores in Atoms and Molecules Concept Test than students instructed by traditionally designed instruction . In addition , students in experiental group indicated a higher positive attitude toward chemistry as a school subject .The results also indicated science process skill was a stronger predictor for the achievement of atoms and molecules concepts.
Strategies that were developed and results obtained for the present study may be used by science teachers to eliminate the students&rsquo / misconceptions about atoms and molecules concepts and provide better conceptual understanding of atoms and molecules.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605885/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 January 2005 |
| Creators | Gunay, Baris |
| Contributors | Geban, Omer |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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