Abstract
This study was prepared to investigate prospective biology teachers' cognitive structures related to "water". As the research design of the study, the case study was applied. The data were collected from 44 prospective biology teachers. The free word-association test, the drawing-writing technique and the semantic differential attitude scale were used as data collection instruments. The data were subject to content analysis and divided into categories through coding. In the analysis, the categories were formed and determined through the results of word-association test and drawing-writing test which were completed by the prospective biology teachers. With the help of these categories, the cognitive structures of prospective biology teachers were explained. These categories were determined as “the place and importance of water in life, the definition and chemical properties of water and water and metabolism”. It was determined that prospective biology teachers' semantic attitudes towards water were at a positive level in terms of mean scores of all adjectives considered; However based on each and every adjective, they mostly perceive water as compulsory, valuable and necessary. Moreover, the data collected through three data collection instruments indicated that prospective biology teachers had misconceptions about water considering the categories determined.
Highlights
When the sea level rises, fish endeavor ants; when the water recedes, ants endeavor fish
It is determined that the data collected through the drawing-writing technique to investigate prospective biology teachers' cognitive structures related to the concept of water fall into 9 categories in total
The aim of the current study is to investigate prospective biology teachers' cognitive structures related to “water" using the free word-association test and the drawing-writing technique and determine through which adjectives they express their attitudes towards the concept of water
Summary
When the sea level rises, fish endeavor ants; when the water recedes, ants endeavor fish. Water is an extremely mysterious natural resource which exists all the time, either in a visible or non-visible way depending on its location. In this respect, it is one of the most significant substances that have always had an influence on human life. As well as being a basic food, it plays an incredibly active role in a number of biochemical reactions happening in our body thanks to the minerals and compounds it contains It performs a wide range of tasks from maintaining pH balance to providing a dispersion medium for molecules and organelles in cells, and to transferring waste to relevant locations
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