Challenges faced by pre-service chemistry teachers teaching in a laboratory and their solution proposals

ÇELİK, Ayşe YALÇIN; Kadayifçi, Hakkı; Üner, Sinem; Oluk, Nurcan Turan

doi:10.1080/02619768.2017.1284792

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“…However, it is reported that the students face problems in understanding the content and instructions in conventional laboratory set-up (Yalcin-Celik et al, 2017) due to poor laboratory facilities and distraction from fellow students and laboratory instructor (Afacan & Demirbaş, 2013). Also, students’ critical thinking in the conduction of experiments and deep learning is low in conventional laboratory.…”

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Virtual Laboratory: A Boon to the Mechanical Engineering Education During Covid-19 Pandemic

Kapilan¹,

Vidhya²,

Xiao

2020

Higher Education for the Future

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The engineering students understand the engineering concepts effectively when they conduct the experiments in the laboratory. Hence, laboratory is as important as theory; however, the ill-equipped laboratory facilities affect the students’ learnability. The virtual laboratories may help the students overcome the problems faced by them in the conventional laboratory. In India, educational activities during the middle of the semester were affected due to lockdown related to COVID-19. However, the theory classes were conducted online, and educational institutions are finding it difficult to complete the laboratory experiments due to closure of colleges for the students due to COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, we have conducted a faculty development programme for the engineering college faculty members on mechanical engineering virtual laboratories. Similarly, we have trained the mechanical engineering students on fluid mechanics virtual laboratory. We have taken feedback from the participants of these virtual laboratory training programme and analysed it. From the analysis we have observed that more than 90 per cent of the participants were happy about the virtual laboratory and they expressed that their learning process improved with virtual laboratory experiments. Also, they felt that the virtual laboratories can be used till the COVID-19 pandemic issues are solved. Since the vaccine for COVID-19 is not available yet, the virtual laboratories will help the mechanical engineering students to conduct the laboratory experiments for the academic year 2020–2021.

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Virtual Laboratory: A Boon to the Mechanical Engineering Education During Covid-19 Pandemic

Kapilan¹,

Vidhya²,

Xiao

2020

Higher Education for the Future

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“…The mandatory practical examination is one hour (DoE, 2011). Teachers of LS are expected to ensure that the necessary chemicals, specimens, equipment and invigilators are available for the practical examinations (Yalcin-Celik, Kadayifci, Uner & Turan-Oluk, 2017).…”

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The views and experiences of Grade 10 Life Scinces teachers on the compulsory practical examination

Jackson¹,

Beer²,

White³

2020

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“…Many chemistry teachers are reluctant to make use of laboratories, even if they offer several advantages. 18 Often, they think that teaching in chemistry laboratories is too complex and challenging to be effective. Therefore, such teachers should be taught a special set of skills before working with students in a laboratory.…”

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“…Many chemistry teachers have a high sense of self-efficacy when it comes to teaching in general; however, this can change when it comes to teaching in a laboratory. Therefore, if we consider both this possibility 18 and the fact that self-efficacy is situation-specific, 32 the need for a scale such as ours to determine self-efficacy for teaching chemistry in a lab becomes evident. In addition, our scale differs from others because we have included key subdimensions, namely, "experimental process", to measure self-efficacy in teaching chemistry in a laboratory, and "using technology in the lab" to emphasize the use of technology in the lab.…”

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“…17 Teacher competence regarding teaching in the laboratory can be evaluated using the second approach. 18 The Ministry of National Education 19 defines teacher competencies as the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that (all) teachers require to fulfill the needs of their profession effectively and efficiently. Achieving planned goals in education and a teacher's qualifications and competencies are closely linked concepts.…”

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Chemistry Teachers’ Self-Efficacy Perception Scale for Teaching in Chemistry Laboratories

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Self-efficacy is a situational and subject-dependent construct instead of a personal characteristic, general perception, or personal competence. This study aimed to develop and validate a scale that would determine chemistry teachers' perceived self-efficacy for teaching in the laboratories. To this end, a selfefficacy perception scale for teaching in the lab (SEPTL, for short) was developed over several stages, subjected to exploratory factor (EFA) and confirmatory factor (CFA) analysis, as well as a series of validity and reliability studies involving 261 chemistry teachers. The results of the EFA and CFA revealed that our SEPTL scale includes three factors and 29 items. Factor 1 (conducting experiments) includes 13 items and accounted for 28.372% of the total variance. Factor 2 (using technology in the lab) included nine items and accounted for 16.654% of the total variance. Factor 3 (lab safety) included seven items and accounts for 14.023% of the total variance. The whole scale accounts for 59.049% of the variance. Our findings demonstrate that the Chronbach's α was 0.957 for the whole, 0.952 for Factor 1, 0.878 for Factor 2, and 0.875 for Factor 3. These values suggest that the SEPTL scale is highly reliable.

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Challenges faced by pre-service chemistry teachers teaching in a laboratory and their solution proposals

Cited by 16 publications

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Virtual Laboratory: A Boon to the Mechanical Engineering Education During Covid-19 Pandemic

Virtual Laboratory: A Boon to the Mechanical Engineering Education During Covid-19 Pandemic

The views and experiences of Grade 10 Life Scinces teachers on the compulsory practical examination

Chemistry Teachers’ Self-Efficacy Perception Scale for Teaching in Chemistry Laboratories

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