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Karaçam, Sedat – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2016
The aim of this study is to examine primary school students' scientist-image stereotypes by considering the relationships among indicators. A total of 877 students attending Grades 6 and 7 in Düzce, Turkey participated in this study. The Draw-A-Scientist Test (DAST) was implemented during the 2013-2014 academic year to determine students' images…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes
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Ergün, Aysegül; Balçin, Muhammed Dogukan – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2017
The aim of this research was to present the Turkish adaptation of the survey for Middle-School Students' Attitudes toward Engineers and Scientists prepared by Lyons, Fralick and Kearn (2009) 32 items in a 5-point Likert type scale. The questionnaire was administered to 707 students receiving education in the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Questionnaires, Scientific Attitudes
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Kapici, Hasan Özgür; Akçay, Hakan – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2016
It is an indispensable fact that having a positive attitude towards science is one of the important factors that promotes students for studying in science. The study is a kind of national study that aims to investigate middle school students', from different regions of Turkey, attitudes toward science, scientists and science classes. The study was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes
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Korkmaz, Hunkar – Astronomy Education Review, 2009
This study investigated the images of astronomical scientists held by Turkish primary students by gender. The Draw an Astronomical Scientist Test was administered to 472 students from an urban area. A Chi-Square Test of Independence was used to test for statistically significant differences between gender groups. Significant differences were found…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Cultural Pluralism, Urban Areas, Gender Issues