İLKÖĞRETİM FEN BİLGİSİ ÖĞRETMENLERİNİN BİYOTEKNOLOJİ (GENETİK MÜHENDİSLİĞİ) FARKINDALIK DÜZEYLERİ

EVRİM ÖCAL

İLKÖĞRETİM FEN BİLGİSİ ÖĞRETMENLERİNİN BİYOTEKNOLOJİ (GENETİK MÜHENDİSLİĞİ) FARKINDALIK DÜZEYLERİ

Thesis Type: Postgraduate

Institution Of The Thesis: İnönü Üniversitesi, Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Fen Bilgisi Öğretmenliği (Yl), Turkey

Approval Date: 2012

Thesis Language: Turkish

Student: EVRİM ÖCAL

Principal Supervisor (For Co-Supervisor Theses): SİBEL KAHRAMAN

Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection

Abstract:

Biotechnology is one of the most important scientific revolutions of the twenty first century, with applications that have the potential to revolutionise many industry sectors. The word 'biotechnology' refers to methods and techniques that allow the production of substances from raw materials with the aid of living organisms and/or biological process to solve problems. The rapid development and applications of biotechnology have triggered many discussions from different academic fields, such as economics, politics, ethical and educational. Therefore, it is required that the children of our society which means ?our future?? be educated as the individuals who possess a strong educational background related to the development of the biotechnology field. This responsibility no doubt is to be taken by the science instructors at different education levels from primary to higher education.The purpose of this study was to determine elementary science teachers? the awarness towards biotechnology and genetic engineering applications. In this study, for determining the awarness level of the science teachers? about biotechnology used 5 of Likert type of an attitude instruments with 16 statements that devoloped by us. Development process of biotechnology attitude instrument was conducted in three stages. These stages are development of item pool, expert opinion evaluations and validity-reliability stage. In order to identify the reliability of the final measure that consists 16 items, internal reliability coefficient (Cronbach Alpha) was conducted and Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient was found as 0.75. The findings showed that the validity and reliability of the measure were acceptable.In the second stages of this study, attitude instrument with 16 statements that devoloped by us was administered with the 209 elementary school science teachers, who live in the center of Malatya city at 2010-2011 in order to determine the level of attitude about of biotechnology and genetic engineering applications. These science teachers selected by convenience sampling methods. Investigation was carried to reveal whether or not the attitude of science teachers? about biotechnology vary according to the gender, the level of education, the year of their study, the type of faculty and department they graduated from. Collected data was analized by using t-test for independent sample and ANOVA test with SPSS.It was detected that the data of science teachers in biotechnology attitude scale differentiate significantly with regard to gender while not differentiate significantly with regard to the the level of education, the year of their study, the type of faculty and department they graduated from.