Changes in Preservice Teacher Attitudes Toward Astronomy Within a Semester-Long Astronomy Instruction and Four-Year-Long Teacher Training Programme |
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| Authors: | Sedat Ucar and Tuba Demircioglu |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Elementary Science Education, Faculty of Education, Cukurova University, Balcali, Adana, Turkey |
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| Abstract: | Teachers’ attitudes toward science, especially toward astronomy, are considered to be an important aspect of teaching and
learning astronomy in school. Research findings to date remain inconclusive as to whether attitudes toward science change
with the science courses taken or with increasing achievement. Therefore, preservice teacher attitudes were investigated in
two contexts: the first examined how a semester-long moon phase instruction course changed preservice teacher attitudes toward
astronomy, and the second considered how preservice teacher attitudes toward astronomy may change over the course of a four-year
science teacher training programme. A total of 638 preservice elementary teachers participated in the study. The results indicated
that a semester-long training course does not change attitudes, but the four-year programme does significantly change participant
attitudes toward astronomy. Astronomy courses should be spread over the four-year programme using modules with few credit
hours instead of one course with a large number of credit hours. |
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