Fizik Öğretmen Adaylarının Okul Fizik Laboratuvarlarındaki Öğrenci Başarılarını Değerlendirme Sürecini Öğrenimi

Abstract

The reported research was conducted within the context of a pre-service teacher education program in a Department of Physics Teaching. This study aimed to investigate pre-service physics teachers’ efforts to learn to assess student performance in the school physics laboratory. The participants developed learning objectives closely related to laboratory skills and designed laboratory activities. They also developed assessment methods and assessment tasks, which they used when teaching experiments in internship schools. As prospective teachers, they were asked to give feedback to actual secondary students’ laboratory reports. Evidence has shown that such a process helped them improve their own laboratory reports. The participants were also interviewed in order to identify and understand the difficulties and challenges they experienced related to the assessment of student performance in the laboratory. Implications for curriculum development and pre-service teacher education are discussed. For example, the issue of how to prepare pre-service teachers to become skillful in assessing student performance in the laboratory should be an important component of teacher education programs so that laboratory work receives more importance in secondary education in Turkey.