Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to determine the level of appropriateness of an eigth grade Science and Technology textbook, workbook and teacher’s guidebook to the constructivist approach. The Science and Technology for 8th graders textbook, work book and guide book which MONE has publicated by DIKEY, have been investigated. This study which was carried out with document analysis method. “Constructivist Coursebook Evaluation Scale” was used in order to collect the data . Tha data was evaluated according to this scale which was developed by Küçüközer Bostan, Kenar, Seçer ve Yavuz (2008) by being made some changes and additions. The reliability coefficient of the scale was calculated as .78. There are three parts in the scale. These are introduction, teaching, and assessment parts. It was choosen two units randomly from the eight units in the books and investigated by using “Constructivist Coursebook Evaluation Scale”. These units are “Division of Cell and Heritage” and “ Nature of the Matter and Its Properties” units. As a resul of the study, it was found that for the introduction criteria for the two units are insufficient in guide book and work book but it is less sufficient in textbook. For the teaching criteria the units are less sufficient in guide book and textbook but it is insufficient in work book. Especially it was seen that it was not given importance to evaluation part in the book sets and this part is insufficient in these books. As a result fort he examined unit ,it was determined that the appropriateness of the textbook, workbook and teacher’s guidebook are less sufficient to the constructivist approach.

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