The effectiveness of using student and teacher centered analogies on the development of the students’ cognitive and affective skills

Teacher Centered Analogy Technique

The course was taught to the students by using the analogy technique and in the end of the subject teaching the papers which include examples of illustrated analogies relating to the subject. The teacher formed the analogies relating to every subject and implemented the course teaching process step by step by means of using the analogies which were also included in the lesson books. Sometimes, it is observed that the students stop learning in where the analogies are deformed and then these points are explained by the teacher and the potential concept confusions are tried to be avoided.

For example, the researcher explained below analogy about the blood types.

0 (general donater)	→ Teachers who teaches the knowledge
AB (general reciever)	→ Students who get the knowledge
A	→ Students who want to get science knowledge
B	→ Students who want to get Turkish knowledge

Some students said that the teachers also get knowledge from the students. Thus, the researcher explained that the teachers learn from the students but they did not get their basic (science or other) knowledge from the students.

The Student Centered Analogy Technique

In this class, the analogy technique is not used during the teaching process. However, the researcher explained the analogy technique and showed analogy examples relating to the subject prepared to the students for one course hour. The students are requested to form their own analogies relating to the subject taught after the end of every subject for one course hour. The students were separated into groups which were formed separately from the male and female students during the study and every group is requested to form its own analogy. Because the analogies are the materials which are formed based on their preliminary information and previous lives of the students, to the researcher observed whether the analogies which are formed by the students in different genders were associated with their own areas of interest and their own lives or not.