Views of Sixth Grade Students Who Take Lessons from Different Science Teachers towards Science Lessons

Abstract

The purpöse öf this study is tö examine sixth ğrade students’ views take science cöurse fröm the different science teachers. This study was conducted by selecting a purposeful sample within the scope of the"phenomenology" pattern, which is one of the qualitative research designs. Participants of the study consisted of four students in the sixth grade in three different secondary schools located in the province of Talas and Kocasinan in the province of Kayseri in the autumn term of 2015-2016 academic year. Semi- structured interview was used as a data collection tool. The interview form consisting of demographic (three) and research (ten) questions was used in the semi-structured interview. In the analysis of the data, codes, themes and categories were created using content analysis. Internal and external validity and internal and external reliability studies have been executed. Based on the results, while three participants had positive view towards science, one participant (Veli) had negative view. This participant stated that the reason of this negative view is the science teacher. All participants stated that they like science course. For instance, Fatma said that “I like science lessöns….” Ayşe stated that science is a difficult lessön. Ali and Veli thöuğht that science is a related tö daily life. In order to develop positive view, some suggestions were mentioned to the science teachers.