An Investigation of Postgraduate Theses on Scientific Process Skills in Preschool Education in Turkey
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Transforming Early Childhood Education: Technology, Sustainability, and Foundational Skills for the 21st Century .
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Scientific process skills (SPS), which are the thought and behavior processes used for science, are skills that facilitate learning in science education. To raise science-literate individuals, gaining scientific thinking skills in early childhood is important. This research paper examined scientific process skills in graduate theses covering preschool education in Turkish literature. According to the convenience sampling method, 53 graduate theses, the full text of which was accessed from the national thesis center, were evaluated according to the thesis review form. According to the results of the analysis, more than half of the graduate theses related to scientific process skills are master's theses. More than half of the theses are of quantitative research type. When analyzed in terms of the research methods preferred in the theses, the majority of them included experimental research method. According to the sampling method used in the theses, about half used random sampling. Looking at the sample group in the theses, the sample group of most theses consisted of preschool students. It was seen that more than half of the theses included a scale of science process skills.
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Copyright (c) 2024 Mehmet Akif Cingi, Ayyüce Öksüz, Atila Çağlar, Didem Semerci Arıkan, Pınar Ayyıldız, Erkan Yanarateş, Şengül Kılıç Avan, İhsan Kalenderoğlu, Çağrı Avan, Bahattin Aydınlı, Adem Yılmaz, Mahmut Nacar, Gülşah Uysal, Kamil Doğanay, Cihan Gülgün, Gülşah Uluay, Pelin Bilgili, Bahattin Deniz Altunoğlu, Gülbahar Güzel Sekecek, Kübra Şahin Atılgan, Fatih Şeker, Nagihan Tanık Önal, Süleyman Sarıbıyık, Serap Özbaş, Betül Küçük Demir, Bilge Öztürk; Bahattin Aydınlı, Bahattin Deniz Altunoğlu