The Instrument for Determining the Views of Primary School Students about Scientific Knowledge

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to develop a reliable and valid instrument in order to determine
the primary school students’ views about scientific knowledge. A total of 505 students of 6 th
, 7th and 8 th grades from 7 different primary schools were participated in the study. It was identified that the instrument was
composed of totally 16 items with three factors namely, scientific knowledge is closed (8 items), scientific
knowledge is justified (5 items) and scientific knowledge may change (3 items) and the whole instrument has a
reliability coefficient of cronbach =0.83. At the same time, this instrument is also the first original instrument
developed for determining the primary school students views about scientific knowledge in our country.