%0 Journal Article
%T Examining science teacher¡¯s understandings of the NOS aspects through the use of knowledge test and open-ended questions
%A Mustafa Serdar Koksal
%A Jale Cakiroglu
%J Science Education International
%D 2010
%I International Council of Associations for Science Education (ICASE)
%X The nature of science aspects (NOS) are the most emphasized theme inmany curriculum and reform attempts. Teachers as a curriculumimplementer in the classroom play important role for policy, arrangementsand classroom experiences on NOS understandings of students. Researchersgenerally assessed the teachers¡¯ NOS conceptions using open-endedquestions plus interview in limited samples. However, in the literature, therehave been some critics on this way of assessment. For that reason, this studyaims to assess elementary science teachers¡¯ (N=47) NOS conceptions byusing ¡°Open-ended questions¡± and ¡°Knowledge test¡±. The results showedexistence of some misunderstandings on NOS and the participants¡¯responses to knowledge test and open-ended questions gave similar patternin terms of ten aspects of NOS, except for three aspects.
%K Elementary Science Teachers
%K Nature of Science
%K Assessment of NOS
%U http://www.icaseonline.net/sei/september2010/p5.pdf