Osmangazi Journal of Educational Research

Yazarlar: Zafer BALBAG, Ersin KARADEMİR

Konular:Eğitim, Eğitim Araştırmaları

Anahtar Kelimeler:Word association test,Current,Voltage,Resistance,Secondary school student,Cognitive structure

Özet: This study aims to reveal the cognitive structures of secondary school eighth-grade students regarding the concepts of current, voltage, and resistance which take place within the subject of electricity by using word association test (WAT). Correlational survey method was used in the study. The study included 100 eighth-grade students who receive education in a state school under the Ministry of National Education in the city center of Eskişehir province in the spring semester of the 2016-2017 academic year. In the research, the word association test was used as a data collection tool. The words obtained as a result of the study regarding the concepts were studied in detail, repeated words are taken into consideration and conceptual networks are created in line with the determined breakpoints. Pursuant to the results, it was seen that secondary school eighth-grade students mostly repeat “electricity”, “fear”, and “force” for the concepts of current, voltage, and resistance, respectively. The distinctive feature of the study is using the word association test (WAT) for the first time in determining the cognitive structures of secondary school eighth-grade students towards the concepts of current, voltage, and resistance.

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