Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
International SOCIAL MENTALITY AND RESEARCHER THINKERS Journal, cilt.7, sa.46, ss.1250-1261, 2021 (Hakemli Dergi)
The aim of this reseach is to examine the belief levels of pre-service science teachersaabout the nature of science. Scanning method was used in the research. The sample of the study consists of 96 pre-service scienceeeteachers studying in the third and fourth grades of science teaching at a faculty of education in the spring semester of the 2019-2020 academic year. The Nature of Science Scale, which was developed by Özgelen (2013), consisting of fivessub-dimensions and with a Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient of .83, was used as the data collection tool. Descriptive statistics and independent samples t-test analysis regarding the data obtained from the scale applied to pre-service teachers were used. According to the results of the analysis, there was a significant difference between third and fourth grade pre-service teachers' belief levels about the nature of science in favor of the third-grade teacher candidates, but no significant difference was found in terms of gender variable. The total scores of the teacher candidates from the sub-dimensions of "Features of Scientific Knowledge and Scientist", "Subjectivity and Technology in Science", "Social Cultural Structure" of the scale of the nature of science differ significantly in favor of the third-grade pre-service teachers, however, no significant difference was found between the scores for the sub-dimensions of "Openness to Change" and "The Place of Theories in Science". It was observed that the belief levels of the pre-service teachers participating in the study were at "Good" or "Very Good" levels in terms of the scores they got from each sub-dimension of the nature of science sclae.