Determination of science teaching students learning of several concepts of radyoactivity subject taught with emergency remote education and students’ opinions on emergency remote education

Abstract

With the negative impact of COVID-19 on educational activities, face-to-face education was suspended at universities and distance education was replaced with it. The aim of this study is to determine whether the students learned some concepts related to the subject of "radioactivity" taught by emergency remote education (ERE) and to reveal the students' opinions on both ERE and teaching of this subject by ERE. To this end, a qualitative study was conducted by asking five open-ended questions (29) to the students studying in the 1st year of Science Teaching Department in a public university in the spring semester of the 2020-2021 academic years. The data were collected through an online questionnaire and were analysed by content analysis. According to the results; it was determined that the students mostly learned the concepts taught by ERE and although they mostly had positive-negative views about ERE (52%), they reported more positive opinions (79%) about the subject “radioactivity” taught by ERE. The results obtained from this study is considered to contribute to the literature in terms of revealing both the learning of some concepts related to the subject and students’ feedbacks from a broad perspective.