Abstract:

The purpose of this research is to receive Science Teacher Candidates’ opinions on V-diagrams as a measurement instrument in Physics Laboratory II class and evaluate these opinions. 30 teacher candidates who were the 1st grade students in 2014-2015 academic year spring semester of a public university in Ankara formed the study group of this research. Before the application process, a seminar was given as to V-diagrams and the preparation of the V-diagrams and prepared V-diagram examples was shown to the participants by the researchers. During the study process, the participants were asked to perform the experiments determined in the curriculum and prepared a V-diagram about each experiment instead of traditional reporting methods. The measurement and evaluation of the teacher candidates as to the subject was realized via these diagrams. At the end of the process, the data of the research was gathered by means of the half-developed interview questions prepared by the researchers. An interview form including the half-developed questions as to V-diagrams used in the application of the half-developed interviews and the use of these diagrams as a measurement and evaluation instrument instead of traditional methods were followed. The content analysis of the qualitative data methods were used to resolve the gathered qualitative data. The documents gathered by means of putting the results of the interview in writing were analyzed via HyperRESEARCHTM 2.6.1. qualitative analysis programme so as to see the data relation and provide convenience while coding. At the end of the research, teacher candidates’ opinions on V-diagrams as a measurement and evaluation instrument of Physics Laboratory II class were presented.

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