Relation Between Pre-Service Chemistry Teachers’ Science Literacy Levels and Their Some Scientific Process Skills

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between science literacy levels and some mental process skills of chemistry teaching undergraduates and to evaluate efficiency and mono and multi interaction of some chosen basic and causal mental processes.6 open-ended questions covering different chemistry subjects and a semi-structured interview including 3 sub-questions relevant to those questions and that search efficiency of mental process have been prepared considering readiness level of the sample in order to determine efficiency of mental processes such as prediction, identifying variables, data collection and inference. The study sampling included 20 students chosen with random sampling method among the pre-service chemistry teachers studying at Ataturk University. From the interview results, there have been determined 97,2% efficiency level from the questions for determining prediction skill; 67,6% efficiency level from the questions for determining identifying variable process skill; 75% efficiency level from the questions for determining data collection and 80,6% efficiency level from the questions for determining inference skill. According to this, the prediction mental process skill's having fairly higher efficiency level have mutually reinforcing mental process abilities of all active users a result of the like are not displayed, whereas, it can be said what a high level the front shorthand based on repeated experience present is. Consequently, there has been concluded that science literacy levels of the students in the sample is not high enough in terms of chosen and analyzed mental process skills.