COMPARING CHEMISTRY STUDENT TEACHERS’ CONCEPTIONS TOWARD OZONE LAYER: TURKEY AND GERMANY SAMPLES

This study is aimed to analyze conceptions of student teachers who receive education from Turkey and Germany, toward ozone layer by comparing them according to several variables. Sample of the study is composed of 78 student teachers of chemistry who received education in three universities from three different cities in Turkey and 72 student teachers of chemistry who received education in different universities of Hessen and Baden-Württemberg States of Germany in 2012-2013. This research, which was carried out in order to detect student chemistry teachers’ levels of conception toward environmental chemistry, is a descriptive research carried out with comparative study method. To collect data, open-ended questionnaire which was composed of four questions and likert scale about ozone layer was used. SPSS 17,0 package program was used to analyze data. No meaningful statistical differences detected between the ranks of student teachers (101 female and 68 male) depending on the gender based on Mann-Whitney U analyze results(U= 3425,000; p=0,977; p ,05) which was applied in order to determine whether there were any meaningful differences between male and female student teachers’ questionnaire ranks or not. When results of Mann-Whitney U which was applied in order to detect were analyzed, it was seen that there was a meaningful difference between students’ questionnaire ranks depending on the country in which they received education(U=3,425,000; p=0,977; p ,05).