Effect of Vee diagram on the achievements and attitudes of students in science laboratory course-II

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the effects of Vee diagram on the achievements and attitudes of students in science laboratory course-II. Sample consisted of pre-service science teachers (N=59) of science teaching program at Faculty of Education in Afyon Kocatepe University in Turkey. A quasi experimental research was utilized as the research design. The teaching was realized through traditionally laboratory method with the control group, whereas through Vee-diagrams with the experimental group. Pre-service science teachers constructed Vee diagrams for presenting their experiment reports during whole laboratory process. The data were gathered through "Achievement Test (AT)" and "Attitude Scale for Science Laboratory (ASSL)". The findings indicated that although there is no significant difference (p>.05) between the pre-test achievement scores of groups, the result of the post-test exhibited that there is a significant difference among groups, which is favor of the experiment group (p.05).