“…Earthquakes are unavoidable natural disasters but the damage of earthquakes can be reduced by increasing people's knowledge and awareness about earthquakes [5][6][7][8][9]. There are have been many national and international studies investigating students' conceptual understandings of earthquakes in the literature [10][11][12][13][14].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There are have been many national and international studies investigating students' conceptual understandings of earthquakes in the literature [10][11][12][13][14]. Research indicated that both teachers and students have lack scientific knowledge about earthquakes with many misconceptions [1,4,5,8,10,[15][16][17][18][19][20]. A number of misconceptions were identified in the literature and some of them were listed as follows:…”
The purpose of the study was to investigate middle school students’ conceptual understandings of earthquakes. Data were collected by using Understanding Earthquakes Test [1] and semi-structured interviews. Participants were a total of 1024 middle school students from the fifth to the eighth grade studying at ten different schools in Istanbul. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with thirty six students selected based on their test scores for three levels of understanding as high, middle, and low level. Findings of the current study indicated that students have lack conceptual understanding of earthquakes with many alternative conceptions. Students mostly from all grade levels seemed to have more scientific understanding in terms of protecting ways from earthquakes damage rather than explaining what earthquakes are and how earthquakes happen.
“…Earthquakes are unavoidable natural disasters but the damage of earthquakes can be reduced by increasing people's knowledge and awareness about earthquakes [5][6][7][8][9]. There are have been many national and international studies investigating students' conceptual understandings of earthquakes in the literature [10][11][12][13][14].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There are have been many national and international studies investigating students' conceptual understandings of earthquakes in the literature [10][11][12][13][14]. Research indicated that both teachers and students have lack scientific knowledge about earthquakes with many misconceptions [1,4,5,8,10,[15][16][17][18][19][20]. A number of misconceptions were identified in the literature and some of them were listed as follows:…”
The purpose of the study was to investigate middle school students’ conceptual understandings of earthquakes. Data were collected by using Understanding Earthquakes Test [1] and semi-structured interviews. Participants were a total of 1024 middle school students from the fifth to the eighth grade studying at ten different schools in Istanbul. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with thirty six students selected based on their test scores for three levels of understanding as high, middle, and low level. Findings of the current study indicated that students have lack conceptual understanding of earthquakes with many alternative conceptions. Students mostly from all grade levels seemed to have more scientific understanding in terms of protecting ways from earthquakes damage rather than explaining what earthquakes are and how earthquakes happen.
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