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The aim of this study is to determine the views of preservice science teachers and elementary school pre-service teachers about the nature of science. The study, performed in survey model, group of the research has consisted of 142 preservice teachers’ who study from class 4. and 1. department of science and classroom teaching. The questionnaire of “Views about the Nature of Science” (VOSTS) which consisted of nine categories and 114 multiple choice questions was developed by Aikenhead, Ryan and Fleming (1989) in an experimental way and 25-item VOSTS (TR) questionnaire which was translated and adapted to Turkish by Doğan Bora was used with the aim of determining the views of the participants. The interpretation of all of the survey questions was performed using frequency and percentage analysis of the three categories. As a result of research; it was determined that the participants had realistic views about; the effect of society on science, the effect of the science on society, characteristics of scientists, the nature of the observations, nature of the classification scheme, impermanence and changeability of knowledge on the other hand they had insufficient views about; the relation of the sex about scientific inventions, the nature of the scientific models, the relation between hypothesis- theory- law and epistemological status of the scientific knowledge

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