Assessing Pre-Service Teachers' Understandings Of The Nature Of Scientific Knowledge Via Media Reports

This study aims to examine the usability of media reports as an alternative technique to assess how pre-service teachers' understandings on the characteristics of scientific knowledge differ in a presented media reports. Fifty pre-service mathematics teachers, who were enrolled in department of...

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Main Authors: Esra Macaroğlu Akgül, Nagihan İmer Çetin
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Language:English
Published: Sakarya University 2014-03-01
Series:Sakarya University Journal of Education
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Online Access:https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/192323
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Assessing Pre-Service Teachers' Understandings Of The Nature Of Scientific Knowledge Via Media Reports
Sakarya University Journal of Education
nature of science
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nature of scientific knowledge
bilimin doğası
medya haberleri
öğretmen adayları
bilimsel bilginin doğası.
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