Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching,Volume 12, Issue 2, Article 11 (Dec., 2011) Öznur KILIÇ and Ünsal UMDU TOPSAKAL The effectiveness of using student and teacher centered analogies on the development of the students’ cognitive and affective skills Previous Contents Next

The Aim of the Study

The influence of student centered analogy and the teacher centered analogy techniques on academic successes, conceptual understanding levels and attitudes of the sixth grade students, in the subject of the circulation system which is a science and technology course is examined by means of this study. The research questions are:

1. Does the teacher and student centered analogy use have an influence on the success in the subject of “Circulation System” in Science and Technology course of the primary school 6th grade students?
2. Is there any significant difference between the post-test results of the students who are taught courses by using teacher-centered analogy technique and student-centered analogy?
3. Is there any significant difference between conceptual understanding levels of the students who are taught by using teacher-centered analogy technique and the student-centered analogy technique?
4. Are there any significant science attitude differences between male and female students?

 

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