Improving Primary School Students’ (11-12) Understanding about Water Pollution

Marinopoulos, Dimitrios; Stavridou, Helen

doi:10.18848/1447-9494/cgp/v15i05/45775

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“…Dialogue between students is a crucial variable of coconstructivism theory (Daws, 2005). Some studies in the field of Science (Marinopoulos & Stavridou, 2008;Pilatou & Stavridou, 2008) found that knowledge is structured in a social environment, and collaborative learning environments facilitate learning of Science courses. Strong engagement and active participation are significant features of co-constructivist theory.…”

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Developing Co-constructivism Scale at Science Courses for Secondary School Students

Ocak¹,

Hocaoğlu²

2021

Kuramsal Eğitimbilim

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According to co-constructivism theory, learning is a social activity. Students are expected to find many opportunities at Science lessons to construct their collective culture and co-construct their culture since science lessons tend to collaborate. This study aims to develop a scale that measures the co-constructivist environment at 7 th and 8 th Grades science courses. For this reason, the scale developed by the researchers has been applied to 238 7 th and 8 th grade students. Exploratory Factor Analysis has been applied for 47 items. As a result of factor analysis, 20 items have been omitted, and the remaining 27 items have been grouped into five factors. These factors explain 64.371% of the total variance. Cronbach Alpha value of the scale is .950. The values of item-total and item-remaining correlation are significant (p<.01). Moreover, the item discrimination value obtained from the difference between mean points of bottom and top 27% of the groups is significant. As a result of confirmatory factor analysis, goodness of fit indexes are seen to be acceptable (RMSEA=.084; AGFI=.70; SRMR=.064; CFI=.91; NNFI=.09, χ 2 /sd=1.93). It was found that the qualitative results mostly coincided with the results of the quantitative study.

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confidence: 99%