Preservice Science Teachers’ Levels of Associating The Concept of Gas Pressure with Everyday Life

Through this research, it was aimed to investigate how pre-service science teachers’ use their knowledge about the concept of gas pressure in explaining some examples from everyday life. The research was carried out with 33 freshmen pre-service science teachers. The data in the rese...

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Main Author: Aybüke Pabuçcu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Turkish Chemical Society 2016-10-01
Series:Journal of the Turkish Chemical Society Section C Chemical Education
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Online Access:http://dergipark.gov.tr/jotcsc/issue/32793/364441
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description Through this research, it was aimed to investigate how pre-service science teachers’ use their knowledge about the concept of gas pressure in explaining some examples from everyday life. The research was carried out with 33 freshmen pre-service science teachers. The data in the research were collected through five formative assessment probes. The students were asked to work in small groups to complete the questions. Groups’ discussions were recorded. Groups’ written responses were classified in five different categories: sound understanding, partial understanding, specific misconception, no understanding, and no response. Data under these categories were given as percentages in a table. The sum of students’ responses in sound understanding and partial understanding are in the range of 37.5% and 62.5%. Results revealed that students had difficulty in understanding the gases concepts and associating these concepts with everyday life events. Moreover, many misconceptions and misuse of the ideal gas equation were determined in the students’ explanations.
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spelling doaj.art-d98f8feed08941b3814077036a3e4e6b2023-02-15T16:15:05ZengTurkish Chemical SocietyJournal of the Turkish Chemical Society Section C Chemical Education2459-17342016-10-0112124Preservice Science Teachers’ Levels of Associating The Concept of Gas Pressure with Everyday LifeAybüke PabuçcuThrough this research, it was aimed to investigate how pre-service science teachers’ use their knowledge about the concept of gas pressure in explaining some examples from everyday life. The research was carried out with 33 freshmen pre-service science teachers. The data in the research were collected through five formative assessment probes. The students were asked to work in small groups to complete the questions. Groups’ discussions were recorded. Groups’ written responses were classified in five different categories: sound understanding, partial understanding, specific misconception, no understanding, and no response. Data under these categories were given as percentages in a table. The sum of students’ responses in sound understanding and partial understanding are in the range of 37.5% and 62.5%. Results revealed that students had difficulty in understanding the gases concepts and associating these concepts with everyday life events. Moreover, many misconceptions and misuse of the ideal gas equation were determined in the students’ explanations.http://dergipark.gov.tr/jotcsc/issue/32793/364441Gas pressureformative assessmentmisconceptionsconceptual questions
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Preservice Science Teachers’ Levels of Associating The Concept of Gas Pressure with Everyday Life
Journal of the Turkish Chemical Society Section C Chemical Education
Gas pressure
formative assessment
misconceptions
conceptual questions
title Preservice Science Teachers’ Levels of Associating The Concept of Gas Pressure with Everyday Life
title_full Preservice Science Teachers’ Levels of Associating The Concept of Gas Pressure with Everyday Life
title_fullStr Preservice Science Teachers’ Levels of Associating The Concept of Gas Pressure with Everyday Life
title_full_unstemmed Preservice Science Teachers’ Levels of Associating The Concept of Gas Pressure with Everyday Life
title_short Preservice Science Teachers’ Levels of Associating The Concept of Gas Pressure with Everyday Life
title_sort preservice science teachers levels of associating the concept of gas pressure with everyday life
topic Gas pressure
formative assessment
misconceptions
conceptual questions
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