THE EFFECT OF 6TH GRADE STUDENTS' VIEWS ON THE NATURE OF SCIENCE ACCORDING TO THE COMMON KNOWLEDGE CONSTRUCTION MODEL (CKCM)

Abstract

This study aims to introduce the effectiveness over the students’ views on the nature of science, who depends on Common
Knowledge Construction Model (CKCM) in the teaching of the subjects of "Sound" unit in the 6th Grade Science course. The
study group includes 57 students at total with the composition of 30 control and 27 experimental group students in Mehmet
Akif Ersoy Secondary School which is located in the province Kulu, in Konya, in the 2018 - 2019 Academic year. In the
experimental group, the teaching model based on CKCM while in the control group 5E teaching model was applied. As a data
collection tool, the Nature of Science Opinion Questionnaire (NSOQ) was used in this study. NSOQ was applied to the
experimental and control groups as pre-test and post-test before and after the practice. The quasi-experimental method was
applied in this research. Skewness - kurtosis values of the findings were examined, and it was concluded that the data showed
normal distribution according to Skewness and Kurtosis values. After these practices, frequency values of weak, changeable
and sufficient views of experimental and control groups were calculated. When the findings obtained in the study are examined,
the contribution of CKCM to the opinions of 6th grade students about the nature of science is quite good. However, a slight
change was observed, when the pre-and post-test data of the control group students' views on the nature of science were taken
into consideration.