The purposes of this study were to explore students&rsquo / perceptions of
the extent to which constructivist approaches are present in chemistry
classes at high school level in Turkey, to assess students&rsquo / perceptions of
their chemistry teachers&rsquo / communication behaviours in their classroom
learning environments and to investigate the learning strategies of
students in chemistry classes considering school type, gender, and grade
level differences.
In this study, the Constructivist Learning Environment
Questionnaire (CLES), the Teacher Communication Behaviour
v
Questionnaire (TCBQ) and the Motivated Strategies for Learning
Questionnaire (MSLQ) were used as measuring instruments. In addition,
the questionnaires included some questions for demographic
characteristics of participants.
The study was conducted in conveniently selected two schools (private
and public) in Ankara with a total of 994 ninth and tenth grade students in
the second term of 2006-2007 semesters. Data obtained from the
administration of measuring instruments by using the analysis of
multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA)
The results of the study indicated that school type, gender and grade level
of the students had significant effect on perception of classroom learning
environment, teacher&rsquo / communication behaviour and perceived use of
learning strategies. For instance, students in private schools perceived
their classroom-learning environment more constructivist than student in
public school. In addition girls rated that, their learning environment and
teachers&rsquo / communication behaviours more favourably than did boys. The
study also showed that students use rehearsal-learning strategy mostly in
their chemistry classrooms.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12608863/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 September 2007 |
| Creators | Guzel, Okan |
| Contributors | Ertepinar, Hamide |
| 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 METU campus |
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