| Issue |
SHS Web of Conferences
Volume 26, 2016
ERPA International Congresses on Education 2015 (ERPA 2015)
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 01025 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20162601025 | |
| Published online | 26 April 2016 | |
Investigating of conceptions of learning biology with respect to gender, grade level and school type
1 Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University,Education faculty, Department of Educational Sciences, Karaman, 70100, Turkey
2 Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University, Education Faculty, Department of Primary Education, Karaman, 70100, Turkey
a Corresponding author: oturksadi@hotmail.com
The aim of this study was to describe the students’ conceptions of learning biology (COLB) and investigate students’ COLB with respect to gender, grade level and school type. COLB questionnaire was implemented in 1691 high school students. In general, this study recognized students preferred higher-level conceptions of learning (increasing knowledge, application, understanding and seeing in a new way) to lower-level conceptions (memorizing, preparing for exams and calculating and practicing). Based on MANOVA results, there are statistically significant correlation between grade level, school type and categories of conceptions of learning biology. However, no interaction between students’ gender and COLB factors was found, indicating that there was no statistically significant mean difference between male and female students with respect to all seven categories of COLB.
Key words: conceptions of learning / gender / grade level / school type
© Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2016
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.