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Change or durability? The contribution of metaconceptual awareness in preservice early childhood teachers' learning of science concepts
Saçkes, Mesut; Trundle, Kathy Cabe (Springer, 2017)This longitudinal study examined the role of metaconceptual awareness in the change and the durability of preservice teachers' conceptual understandings over the course of several months. Sixteen preservice early childhood ... -
A comprehensive literature review on students' conceptual understandings enhanced through technology instruction
Trundle, Kathy Cabe; Saçkes, Mesut (Information Age Publishing-IAP, 2013)Today, increasing numbers of children gain early access to computers in their homes, and computers have become an ordinary feature of most classrooms, with the ratio of computers to children in the U.S. increasing to one ... -
Development of the efficacy beliefs for conceptual change learning questionnaire
Saçkes, Mesut; Trundle, Kathy Cabe; Tuckman, Bruce W.; Krissek, Lawrence A (Routledge Journals, 2012)The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument to assess college students' efficacy beliefs for conceptual change and to examine the psychometric properties of the instrument. Participants were 692 students. Results ... -
The effect of balanced learning curriculum on young children's learning of science
Saçkes, Mesut; Trundle, Kathy Cabe; Shaheen, Maria (Springer, 2019)The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of the Primrose Balanced Learning Curriculum on young children's science performances. The sample of this study included 158 children attending two private preschools. ... -
Looking beyond enrollment rates: The long-term influence of preschool science curricula on children’s science achievement
Saçkes, Mesut; Trundle, Kathy Cabe (Journal of Childhood, Education and Society, 2024)This study provides evidence that what happens in preschool (i.e., preschool curriculum) can have long-term consequences years later. In the current study, we seek to answer the question of whether the inclusion of science ... -
Preservice early childhood teachers' learning of science in a methods course: Examining the predictive ability of an intentional learning model
Saçkes, Mesut; Trundle, Kathy Cabe (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2014)This study investigated the predictive ability of an intentional learning model in the change of preservice early childhood teachers' conceptual understanding of lunar phases. Fifty-two preservice early childhood teachers ... -
Preservice early childhood teachers' sense of efficacy for integrating mathematics and science: Impact of a methods course
The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of an integrated science and mathematics methods course on preservice early childhood teachers' efficacy beliefs for integrating these content areas. Thirty-four preservice ... -
Profiling parental orientation to early childhood curriculum
Saçkes, Mesut; Trundle, Kathy Cabe; Shaheen, Maria (Routledge Journals,, 2019)The purpose of the present study was to identify the curricular preferences of parents for their youngsters. The study sample included 1490 parents with children enrolled in private preschool and prekindergarten classrooms. ... -
Science education during the early childhood years: Research themes and future directions
Siry, Christina; Trundle, Kathy Cabe; Saçkes, Mesut (Taylor and Francis, 2023)Özet bilgisi yok. -
Science learning experiences in kindergarten and children's growth in science performance in elementary grades
Saçkes, Mesut; Trundle, Kathy Cabe; Bell, Randy (Turkish Education Assoc, 2013)The present study aims to examine the influence of early science experiences in kindergarten on children's growth in science performance in elementary grades. The data for this study came from the Early Childhood Longitudinal ... -
Science learning experiences in kindergarten and children’s growth in science performance in elementary grades
Bu çalışmanın amacı, anaokulunda verilen erken bilim eğitimi deneyimlerinin, çocukların ilköğretim yıllarında fen bilgisi alanında gösterdiği performansın gelişmesi üzerindeki etkisini incelemektir. Bu çalışmada Erken ... -
A science methods course for early childhood teachers: A model for undergraduate pre-service teacher education
Araştırmalar çocukların doğa hakkında gözlem yapma ve düşünmeye yönelik bir eğilimi olduğu ve bu yatkınlığın okulöncesi dönemde etkili bilim öğrenme fırsatları sunularak geliştirilmesi gerektiğini önermektedir. Çocuklara ... -
Scientific concepts during childhood, development of
Saçkes, Mesut; Trundle, Kathy Cabe; Smith, Mandy Mc Cormick (Elsevier Inc., 2015)This article presents a synthesis of descriptive and instructional studies on the development of scientific concepts during childhood. Preschoolers' and young children's understandings of earth and space science concepts, ... -
Teaching and learning science during the early years
Trundle, Kathy Cabe; Saçkes, Mesut (Istanbul Kultur University, 2021)Over the past two decades, science has increasingly become an integral part of early childhood curricula, and research on teaching and learning science in early years has emerged as an established field of study. Collectively, ... -
US and Turkish preschoolers' observational knowledge of astronomy
Saçkes, Mesut; Smith, Mandy McCormick; Trundle, Kathy Cabe (Routledge Journals, 2016)The purpose of this cross-cultural study was to describe and compare US and Turkish children's observational knowledge of the day and night cycle and to identify similarities predicted by framework theory. Fifty-six (27 ...
