Examining Of Epistemological Beliefs Of Students In Science Education, Biology Education And Biology-Related Pedagogical Formation Course According To Some Variables

Authors : Mehmet Yakişan, Şadiye Karaşah

Pages : 236-243

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Publication Date : 2016-06-01

Article Type : Research

Abstract :This study was performed in order to examine the epistemological beliefs of students who study science education, biology education and take the biology-related pedagogical formation course in Ondokuz Mayıs University. In this study, In order to determine epistemological beliefs of the students for this study that were conducted with a total of 107 students, including 32 from students of the fourth class science teacher, 41 from students of the fourth class biology teacher and 34 from the formation training biology students studying in Ondokuz Mayıs University. In this study, "The Epistemological Beliefs Scale” was used with the aim of determine students’ epistemological beliefs that was developed by Schommer (1990) and adopted in Turkish by Deryakulu and Büyüköztürk (2005). The scale is a thirty five-point scale consisting of three factors. The first studies on epistemological beliefs are based on the examination of these beliefs in general as one-size. In this study used as The Epistemological Beliefs Scale was adopted in Turkish by Deryakulu and Büyüköztürk (2002) "The Belief of Learning Depends on Effort", "The Belief of Learning Depends on Ability" and "The Belief of There is Only One Unchanging Truth" consists of three factors. Research is a descriptive study of college students’ by gender and departments, epistemological beliefs in causal comparative models. The data collected were analyzed with SPSS 21 program. The descriptive statistical methods were used to evaluate the data, t-test and one-way analysis of variance (One-Way ANOVA) was calculated. According to analysis the result of the demonstrated that there is no statistically significant difference between students’ scientific epistemological beliefs and their gender of all three factors. According to the students’ departments, it was found out those two beliefs, one of which is that "The Belief that Learning Depends on Effort" and the other one is that "The Belief that Learning Depends on Ability", differ. However; the belief concerning that "The Belief That There is Only One Unchanging Truth" does not differ.
Keywords : epistemological beliefs, science education, biology education, epistemology