Abstract
The aim of this research is to determine high school students’ cognitive structure regarding cleaning agent via word association test. The sample of the research consists of 160 high school students. A word association test (WAT) prepared to test the structure addressed in the study was used as the data collection tool. Content analysis was used to evaluate the data obtained from the sample group. Words written by high school students in relation to the test were analyzed elaborately and based on this analysis concepts were categorized as well as their frequency. As for the first section of the word association test, three main categories were obtained: Chemical cleaning agent, natural cleaning agent, and cleaning equipment. When it comes to the second part, the highest frequency values were in the category of chemical cleaning agent, natural cleaning agent category, cleaning equipment category. All in all, it was concluded that the natural cleaning agent category had the highest frequency, the chemical cleaning agent category was in the second place, and the cleaning equipment category had the lowest frequency.
Highlights
Chemicals are used in the industrial sector, and in our daily lives like cleaning, disinfection, personal care, etc
As a result of the analysis of the data obtained by using the word association test of the cognitive structures of the high school students regarding the cleaning agent concept, 3 main categories were created
According to the word association test, a total of 1400 answer words were collected from 157 students. 120 words (8.57%) were excluded from the evaluation due to reasons such as being unrelated to the subject or other words and being appeared once (Kostova & Radoynovska, 2010; Kurt 2013). 1280 words were obtained from the word association test and these were divided into 3 main categories as a total of 35 words, which can be seen in the Table 1
Summary
Chemicals are used in the industrial sector, and in our daily lives like cleaning, disinfection, personal care, etc. The purpose of this research is to determine the cognitive structures of high school students on “cleaning agent” and identify alternative concepts by using independent word association test and drawing-writing technique. The cognitive structures of high school students about cleaning agent were examined with word association test.
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