Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 8, Issue 1, Article 1 (June, 2007) Haluk ÖZMEN and Osman KENAN Determination of the Turkish primary students' views about the particulate nature of matter Previous Contents Next

Methodology

Sample

The sample of the study consists of 411 students, 139 of them are from grade 4, 121 of them are from grade 5 and 151 of them are from grade 6. In Turkey, the students first encounter with the particulate nature of matter concept in 4^th grade in the unit of "Let us defining the matter", it is mentioned in the unit of "Changing and defining of the matter" in 5^th grade and it is restudied in the unit of "Particulate nature of matter" in 6^th grade in science curriculum. Therefore, this research was applied to the students in these levels. The sample of the study was coming from two schools in Trabzon, a province in the East Region of Turkey, and they were all coming from similar socioeconomic status which was medium and educational background. Therefore, the findings of study are not generalized to nationwide in Turkey.