مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - Examination of Nature of Science Studies in Last 10 Years in Terms of Different Variables

Abstract :

The aim of this study is examination of studies about nature of science in last 10 years in terms of different variables and guiding the future research about NOS. This study included 127 articles, which published in SSCI/SCI indexed journals. These studies were detected according to their titles, which included one of the phrases of “nature of science, “NOS”, and “nature of scientific knowledge”. In this study, qualitative approach and data analysis method were applied. Collected data were analyzed by using the content analysis method. While applying the content analyses five different variables were concerned. These were; Article’s (a) published year, (b) approach, (c) design, (d) sample and (e) data collection tools. Several findings were obtained according to these variables. Firstly, many of studies were done in 2013 in the last decade. In addition, the number of studies was increased in every year. It was determined that, the majority of studies were conducted with qualitative approaches. Moreover, studies of used mixed approach have been a significant increase in the number of studies in recent years. Furthermore, most of researchers used case study and interviews were mostly conducted for data collection. The results showed that, mostly students were selected for sample. Lastly, number of studies in Turkey increased according to last years. This condition can be explained as reflection of changing science teaching curriculum and also changing science teacher education curriculum in last 10 years. Other results were discussed under the related science education literature.