Prospective biology teachers' views about Turkish videos related to parts and usage of microscope

Abstract

The aim of the study was to determine fourth grade prospective biology teachers' views about Turkish videos related to parts and usage of microscope. Study group consisted of 27 fourth grade prospective biology teachers in Necatibey Faculty of Education in Balikesir University in Turkey in 2012-2013 academic years. Although there are several English videos related to parts and usage of microscope on internet, there are only two Turkish videos about them. The first video was watched by the students and they were asked to write their ideas about the video in order to data collection. Later, the same application was performed for the second video. Data was analyzed by using content analysis method. After themes and sub-themes of the responses of the students were categorized, frequencies were calculated. According to the results of the study, the students emphasized that both two videos had some problems such as insufficient video narration, film making problems and lack of interest of videos.