The Word Cloud Illustration of the Cognitive Structures of Teacher Candidates About Education Concept

Zan, Nuray; Zan, Burcu Umut; Morgil, F Inci

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-19875-0_32

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“…Although these are not immediately recognizable or perceptible at first glance in the Baltic Sea due to the significantly lower tidal range, there are nevertheless no starting points from the technical conception as to why there could be no tides in the Baltic Sea. The results of other word association tests with prospective teachers also show that the teachers' conceptions are sometimes very far from correct scientific conceptions ( Kurt, 2013a , 2013b ; Zan et al., 2015 ). In this respect, misconceptions can be diagnosed with this methodological approach.…”

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Conceptions of prospective biology teachers about the Wadden Sea ecosystem

Schmäing¹,

Grotjohann²

2022

Heliyon

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confidence: 96%

Conceptions of prospective biology teachers about the Wadden Sea ecosystem

Schmäing¹,

Grotjohann²

2022

Heliyon

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“…The instruments used in this study were the Word Association Test (WAT) and the Questionnaire of Writing Sentence (QWS) (Ozarslan & Cetin, 2018). WAT is a commonly used test for studying the cognitive structure of students and it has also been proven effective in identifying misconceptions (Kurt, 2013;Yucel & Ozkan, 2015;Zan, Zan, & Morgil, 2015). In this study, WAT was used to study students' cognitive structures while QWS aimed to identify students' misconceptions about respiration topics.…”

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Secondary School Students’ Cognitive Structure and Misconception in Respiration Topic

Mahror

Mahmud

2020

HSSR

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Purpose of the study: This study aims to explore the cognitive structures and identify the misconceptions experienced by secondary school students in the respiration topic. Methodology: This study is a qualitative study. The instruments used for data collection were the Word Association Test (WAT) and the Questionnaire of Writing Sentence (QWS). The data obtained were in word form. The breakpoint technique was used to analyze the data for WAT while the data for QWS were analyzed by category. Purposive sampling was applied in this study. A total of 23 forms four students comprising 12 boys and 11 girls participated in this study. Main Findings: The result showed that the students’ cognitive structures in the respiration topic were incomplete. The students were unable to form a comprehensive relationship for the given keywords, and there were also weak or incorrect associations. The misconceptions that had been identified are largely related to the keywords about cell respiration, anaerobic respiration, and breathing mechanism. Applications of this study: This study provides insights into the students’ cognitive structures and misconceptions about respiration. Thus, it will be useful for teachers in planning their teaching strategies so that they can improve the students’ cognitive structures as well as avoid misconceptions. Novelty: Most of the previous studies only focused on the identification of misconceptions without further investigation into the students’ cognitive structures, especially on the respiration topic. Thus, this study investigates the cognitive structures and misconceptions specifically among secondary school students who have learned respiration in biology.

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“…We have analyzed studies by deNoyelles and Reyes-Foster [3], Jayashankar and Sridaran [8,9], Olefirenko et al [17], Philip [18], Shyshkina [23], Skiba [24], Stott, Zamoyski and Alberti [25], Viveiros and Medeiros [27], Wang and Sumiya [28], Zan, Zan and Morgil [29] that focus on the use of the "word cloud" in education and provide an appropriate understanding of how this didactic tool contributes to the effectiveness of learning.…”

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Clouds of words as a didactic tool in literary education of primary school children

Nezhyva

Паламар

Marienko³

2022

CTE Workshop Proc.

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The study reveals the possibilities of using the words’ cloud in the literary education of primary school children. The authors consider the possibility of using a cloud of words to visualize the keywords of the text for the translation of the work of art, the interpretation of the main idea and the characteristics of the artistic image. The words’ cloud can also be used as a reference summary to answer questions about the content of the work or to present the results of a school project by students. Moreover, in reading lessons, this tool can be used as a tool to identify the topic of the lesson. The study reveals the possibilities of the didactic tool of the words’ cloud for the development of speech of primary school children, in particular, in composing their own texts and editing them, the ability to explore words that the student uses too often and avoid tautology. Using the method of a problem situation and visually demonstrating information through a cloud of words, the teacher pro-motes the activation of students’ mental activity, the development of creative abilities and critical thinking.The study tested the use of the electronic resource WordArt in primary school – a website for creating a “word’s cloud” and proved its effectiveness in reflection, as well as creating an image of the main idea of the lesson, general conversation, its use as didactic material. The authors used the technology of learning using a cloud office package Google Drive to write a draft of their own statement of primary school children. The authors investigated the use of the service in the lesson of literary reading during the organization of reading activities in the following areas: in the “cloud of words” to encrypt the topic of the lesson; using the cloud as visual material or as basic information to explain new material; encrypt certain words from the text in the cloud, students’ task to guess the work; create a cloud of words of positive and negative characters of the work; write a story on the topic; create an “encrypted postcard” to the writer or hero of the work. In the course of experimental work, the effectiveness of the use of this didactic tool in the lessons of literary reading in primary school during the analysis of texts in order to identify the most important associations of students was confirmed.

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The Word Cloud Illustration of the Cognitive Structures of Teacher Candidates About Education Concept

Cited by 3 publications

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Conceptions of prospective biology teachers about the Wadden Sea ecosystem

Conceptions of prospective biology teachers about the Wadden Sea ecosystem

Secondary School Students’ Cognitive Structure and Misconception in Respiration Topic

Clouds of words as a didactic tool in literary education of primary school children

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