Browsing by Author "Cansız, Nurcan"
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Evaluating Turkish science curriculum with PISA scientific literacy framework
Cansız, Nurcan; Cansız, Mustafa (Mehmet Tekerek, 2019)Any society needs more scientifically literate citizens even if they do not follow a career in science. In the 2015 PISA assessment, Turkey ranked 34thamong 35 OECD countries based on science literacy scores. The ... -
How critical is preschool attendance for students to build a higher science self-efficacy? A comparative study of finland, singapore, and Turkey using PISA 2015 data
Cansız, Nurcan; Üstün, Ulaş; Cansız, Mustafa; Özdemir, Ertuğrul (Türk Psikolojik Danışma ve Rehberlik Derneği, 2020)Preschool attendance rates have been increasing in recent decades yet there is some level of deviation throughout the participating countries in PISA. Finland and Singapore are the countries with a very high level of ... -
How do sources of self-efficacy predict preservice teachers' beliefs related to constructivist and traditional approaches to teaching and learning?
Cansız, Mustafa; Cansız, Nurcan (Sage Publications, 2019)Guided by Bandura’s theoretical construct of self-efficacy, in this study, we attempted to model the relationship between preservice elementary teachers’ sources of self-efficacy and their constructivist, and traditional ... -
Profiling preservice science teachers' early experiences, beliefs about teaching, and teaching practices
Cansız, Nurcan; Cansız, Mustafa (Routledge Journals, 2020)Background One of the most important, albeit ignored, issues in the process of curriculum implementation is teachers' beliefs; indeed, this is a vital issue since their beliefs about teaching and learning will in part ... -
Reconceptualizing and field testing the scientific literacy framework by exploring the aspect of scientific literacy in Turkish science curriculum
Cansız, Mustafa; Cansız, Nurcan (Scientia Socialis Ltd, 2019)The aim of this research was twofold. The first aim was to revise the existing scientific literacy framework developed by Boujaoude in accordance with the current literature about scientific literacy. The second aim was ... -
What are the factors affecting Turkish students' science literacy? A hierarchical linear modelling study using PISA 2015 data
Üstün, Ulaş; Özdemir, Ertuğrul; Cansız, Mustafa; Cansız, Nurcan (Hacettepe Univ, 2020)The main purpose of this study is to investigate the student and school-level variables affecting Turkish students' science literacy using PISA 2015 data. In this way, we aim to build a hierarchical model of the variables ...
