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Bastürk Kaya; Caner Aladag – International Journal of Modern Education Studies, 2024
The aim of this study was to determine the cognitive structures of high school students related to the atmosphere and climate. The study group consists of 70 students in the 10th grade of a state high school affiliated to Konya Provincial Ministry of National Education. In this study, a survey model, which allowed us to determine the current…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Climate, Weather
Ahmet Tasdere; Dilek Erol; Sabiha Eren – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2024
This study, aiming to reveal preschool children's mental models of their environment, was carried out with the participation of 225 children aged 36-72 months attending 8 different preschool education institutions. It is based on qualitative research designed around a case study. The Word Association Test and Drawing were used as the data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Schemata (Cognition)
Bahar Candas; Muammer Çalik – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
This study aimed to facilitate grade 8 students' conceptual understanding of 'sustainable development (SD)' via Common Knowledge Construction Model (CKCM)-oriented instruction. Through a pre-experimental research approach, the study was conducted with 31 grade 8 students drawn from a secondary school in the city of Trabzon, Turkey. A word…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Concept Formation, Sustainable Development, Secondary School Students
Tugba Dönmez – Online Submission, 2023
Rules are often created based on the needs and values of society. Social rules, on the other hand, are guidelines that state whether we should or should not do certain behaviors. In addition to educational activities, schools also include activities aimed at teaching social rules. The concept of rule, its formation, implementation, classification…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Cognitive Structures, Student Attitudes
Ayten Arslan – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2023
This study employed a word association test to determine middle school students' cognitive perceptions and misconceptions of the key concepts regarding "cycles of matter and environmental problems." The study adopted descriptive research in survey model. The sample consisted of 457 eighth-grade students from four middle schools…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Misconceptions, Scientific Concepts
Ozkan Akman; Kubra Durgun – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
Concepts are where the foundation of scientific knowledge and thought structures are laid. Thanks to concepts, distinctions or generalisations about an event or an entity are formed and thought structures are formed in our minds. In this study, it was aimed to determine the associations in the minds of secondary school 6th grade students about the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 6, Social Studies
Kübra Dilek Tankiz; Ali Korkut Uludag; Derya Yazici – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2024
This study aims to determine the perceptions of fine arts high school music department students about the concept of "instrument training" through an alternative measurement and evaluation technique "Word Association Test (WAT)". In this study, the survey model, one of the qualitative research methods, was used. The study group…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, High School Students, Music Education, Musical Instruments
Aysegül Derman; Figen Gunes; Ozcan Gulacar; Ingo Eilks – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
This study aims to determine the cognitive structures of students at different educational levels (8th grade and 12th grade) related to acid-base chemistry. The research was designed as a case study and structured in two stages. The first stage analyzed concepts related to acid-base chemistry and their direction and strength in students' knowledge…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Cognitive Structures, Grade 8
Karaman, Burcu; Karakus, Ufuk – Participatory Educational Research, 2022
The aim of this study is to examine the cognitive structures of the secondary school students towards the concept of health. The study was carried out using the descriptive survey model, which is a research approach that intends to describe a past or present situation as it is. The study group of the research was determined by maximum diversity…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Cognitive Structures, Health, Concept Formation
Vural Tünkler; O¨zlem Kinaci – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
The aim of this research is to reveal the cognitive structures of secondary school students regarding the concepts of "good school" and "good teacher". The survey model was used in this study. The data have been gathered through word association test. The study group of the research consists of 162 secondary school students…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Cognitive Structures, Language Usage, Student Attitudes
Ahmet Tasdere; Mehmet Fatih Kaya – Science Education International, 2023
The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of the Common Knowledge Construction Model (CKCM) on 10th-grade students' conceptual understanding of the buoyancy and density of liquids topic. Within a pre-experimental (one group pre-test/post-test) research design, this study was conducted with 22 of 10th-grade students. To collect data, the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Grade 10
Ürek, Handan; Dolu, Gamze – Gifted Education International, 2020
The aim of this study was to determine the conceptual structures of exceptionally talented students about chemical change through the use of word associations. The study was conducted with 13 exceptionally talented students in seventh grade who were attending a science and art center located in a province in western Turkey. Data were collected…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academically Gifted, Associative Learning, Grade 7
Nakiboglu, Canan – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2023
The topic of physical and chemical changes is one of the basic and essential issues of both the lowersecondary school science curriculum and the upper-secondary school chemistry curriculum in many countries. The focus of the present study is to investigate the students' cognitive structures on the topic of physical and chemical changes at…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Secondary School Students, Cognitive Structures
Yener, Yesim; Inan, Muhammed Erkam – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2022
This study aimed to determine the cognitive structures of preservice primary school teachers for basic biology concepts using Word Association Test (WAT). The study group consists of 50 preservice teachers studying in a university in Western Black Sea Region in Turkey. Four separate cut-off points were determined and analysed. Organ, living…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Biology, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
Nacaroglu, Oguzhan; Kizkapan, Oktay – Journal of Science Learning, 2021
Epistemological beliefs can be defined shortly as beliefs about the source, certainty, organization of knowledge, and beliefs on ability and speed of learning. Word association tests (WAT) are practical alternative assessment and evaluation tools that can reveal students' thoughts on different concepts. In this regard, this research aims to…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Children, Adolescents, Beliefs