INVESTIGATION OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN LIFE SCIENCE, SOCIAL STUDIES AND SCIENCE EDUCATION (2000-2020)
Ümit İZGİ ONBAŞILI
The aim of this study is to investigate the interdisciplinary studies in the fields of life studies, social studies and science education carried out in Turkey between the years 2000-2020. A total of 38 scientific studies from postgraduate theses (16 pieces) and articles (22 pieces) scanned in TR Index Ulakbim between 2000-2020, which are open to access on the official website of the National Thesis Center of the Council of Higher Education, were included in this review. All the studies reviewed; it was classified in terms of publication year, publication type, research method, sample group, data collection tools, keywords, and distribution of interdisciplinary ties. In the study, descriptive research method was used within the scope of qualitative research. In the analysis of the data, co...
Examining The Attitudes Of Primary School Students Towards Science and Social Studies Courses
Ümit İZGİ ONBAŞILI
The study aims to identify the fourth graders’ attitudes towards the courses of science and social studies and the correlations between them. The study was conducted with the participation of 285 fourth graders attending the primary schools in Mersin and Balıkesir in 2017-2018 academic year. The “Attitudes towards Science Scale” developed by Geban, Ertepınar, Yılmaz, Altın and Şahbaz (1994) and the “Attitudes towards Social Studies Course Scale” developed by Kalın and Topkaya (2017) were used in this study as the tools of data collection. The Cronbach’s Alpha internal consistency coefficient was found to be .84 for the attitudes towards social studies course. The attitudes towards science scale is a five-pointed Likert type scale of 15 items. The reliability for the scale was found as 0.88...