Açık Uçlu Madde Örnekleriyle Hipotez Kurma ve Deney Planlama Becerilerinin Değerlendirilmesi

Abstract

This research aimed to evaluate the hypothesizing and experimenting skills of undergraduate students in the first year of the sociology department and the third year of the child development department at a state university, using open-ended items. Additionally, the purpose of this study is understand the nature of evaluated skills based on student responses. 178 students participated in the study. Five open-ended items were given to the students for four weeks and their answers were evaluated using a rubric. Student responses were collected through this interface by opening an assignment page in a class created on Google Classroom, and student responses were evaluated in the relevant week. The answers given by the students were classified as the most correct answer, partially correct answers, incorrect answers, irrelevant and empty answers in the rubric, and the development of the students in skills was monitored with the number and percentage values. In the study, less than half of the students were able to reach the most correct answer in all questions except one. The third-year students of the child development department achieved higher success than the first-year students of the sociology department. It was thought that the class level together with the subject context played an important role in measuring the skill.