Project-Based Learning Practices with Secondary School Students

Abstract

Aiming to identify academic self-efficacy and academic motivations to middle school students by providing them opportunities to conduct and present their own projects in accordance with their interests and skills, this study covers the consequence assessment obtained from the second term of the TÜBİTAK-supported research project ''Kafkasın Mucitleri Bilimle Buluşuyor (Caucasian Inventors Meet with Science)'', and the comparison of this assessment with the results attained from the first term of the project. The study group consists of 39 middle school students from 7th grade who volunteered to participate in the study in Kars province center. As data collection tool, the "Academic Self-Efficacy Scale" and "Academic Motivation Scale" were used. In this research where the one group pre-test-post-test design was used, academic self-efficacy and academic motivation scales were implemented as pre-test and post-test. As a result of the research, it has been determined that there was no change in confidence of the students regarding their own skills or the school environment they were present. When the Academic Motivation levels of the students were evaluated, it has been determined that there was only a change in their introjected extrinsic motivation levels.