Anadolu Öğretmen Dergisi
Yazarlar: Öykü Dulun
Konular:Eğitim, Eğitim Araştırmaları
DOI:10.35346/aod.615132
Anahtar Kelimeler:Misconceptions,Biology education,Body systems,International education,International baccalaureate
Özet: Drawing method along with the written responses of 1st year International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) secondary school students wes used to determine their understanding of the concepts of human body organ systems. Due to the time limitation, misconceptions were not evaluated in this research. The focus of this research was mainly to determine the frequency of the drawn organ systems by the students to find out their knowledge prior to the upcoming chapter in IBDP Biology curriculum, Topic 6: Human Physiology, so that the curriculum implementation plan can be built considering the data collected in this small-scale research. Spontaneous drawings of students in support with open-ended questions were used in this current research to make qualitative analysis of the students’ ideas on human body systems and their functions. The mean age of the students was 18.1 (range 18-19) in this study which did not focus on the gender differences. The participants had studied at various middle schools before they started this high school. Therefore, there was great diversity due to the participants’ background however they were all being taught International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) Biology in grade 9 and 10 prior to IBDP. It was found that the only organ system among ten of those, which the students reached level 5 was urinary system. They still need further support on digestive, muscular and skeletal systems as well as the lymphatic system.