Effect of Summer Science Camp on Turkish Gifted Students’ Views of Nature of Science

Hırça, Necati

doi:10.1080/15332276.2014.11678426

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“…The vast majority of the research studies in the literature investigated the effectiveness of summer science camps organized for students. These summer science camps were offered to students with several different purposes including, but not limited to, increasing students' interest and attitudes toward science (Sheridan, Szczepankiewicz, Mekelburg, & Schwabel, 2011;Vekli, 2013), attracting students to STEM careers (Bhattacharyya, Mead, & Nathaniel, 2011;Bischoff, Castendyk, Gallagher, Schaumloffel, & Labroo, 2008;Crombie, Walsh, & Trinneer, 2003), enhancing students' science content knowledge (Davis, 2014;Fields, 2009;Williams, Ma, Prejean, Ford, & Lai, 2007), supporting students for scientific literacy (Foster & Shiel-Rolle, 2011), and improving students' NOS conceptions (Antink-Meyer, Hirca, 2014;Liu & Lederman, 2002;. The aforementioned research studies reported the success of the short-term summer science camps to some extent in improving students' NOS conceptions.…”

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Professional Development of Elementary and Science Teachers in a Summer Science Camp: Changing Nature of Science Conceptions

Karaman¹

2016

AJTE

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Professional Development of Elementary and Science Teachers in a Summer Science Camp: Changing Nature of Science Conceptions

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2016

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“…The researchers concluded that the camp has been effective in making the children to grasp the human nature of scientists that both genders could be scientists, and not necessarily one needs to be old to be a scientist. Hirça (2014) on the other hand, studied the result of a science camp which emphsised on the Nature of Science (NOS) instruction (explicit-reflective method) with on 30 Turkish gifted students. The openended Views of NOS Questionnaire used to assess the changing of students' NOS views.…”

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Effect of science camp for enhancing STEM skills of gifted young scientists

Zahidi

Ing

Yusof

et al. 2021

Journal for the Education of Gifted Young Scientists

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Programs and educational practices that enable gifted students to conduct science activities and develop themselves in engineering fields are rapidly increasing in Malaysia. One of them is the science camp to improve STEM skills. This study investigates the effectiveness of science camp (Junior Science Camp) towards young children's understanding and knowledge about science. One hundred and three children aged four to six years old participated in the three-day camp. Mixed research model was used in this research. Data were collected by Junior Science Camp Scientist Test (JSCST) as pre and post-test, parent evaluation of the camp. Questions in the pre and post-test were on the content in the five camp modules: I am an engineer, I am a scientist, I am a chemist, I am a forensic scientist, and I am a natural scientist. Data from the open-ended question in the survey (parent evaluation) were used to triangulate the quantitative data from the pre and post-test. Findings showed that the camp was effective in enhancing the young children's (preschoolers') understanding about science and increasing their knowledge about science and STEM fields. Implications of this study are related to the design of future science camps and also the methodology and instruments of future research.

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Literature Review of Nature of Science and Explicit-Reflective Instruction: A Strategy Design in Scientific Literacy

Setiyawati,

Sutopo,

Mahanal

et al. 2024

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This study was conducted to synthesize the literature on the Nature of Science (NOS) and explicit-reflective instruction and find implications for a strategy design in scientific literacy. The main contribution of this research is the in-depth analysis of the selected articles to find aspects of NOS that are important for elementary school students as a bridge to achieving scientific literacy. This study used the literature review method with four stages: identifying research objectives, identifying and selecting relevant studies, mapping data, and compiling, summarizing, and reporting results. The source of the review was 25 articles that met the exclusion and inclusion criteria in the last 10 years. The presentation of results was done descriptively by paying attention to the full text of the 25 articles. This study revealed that empirically based, tentative, observations and inferences, and imagination and creativity are general aspects of NOS that are important for elementary school students to access as a bridge to scientific literacy. The implications of these findings suggest a strategy designed to provide many opportunities for teachers and students to use content and learning contexts with three phases of reflection called the reflective before-in-on strategy.

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Effect of Summer Science Camp on Turkish Gifted Students’ Views of Nature of Science

Cited by 3 publications

References 18 publications

Professional Development of Elementary and Science Teachers in a Summer Science Camp: Changing Nature of Science Conceptions

Professional Development of Elementary and Science Teachers in a Summer Science Camp: Changing Nature of Science Conceptions

Effect of science camp for enhancing STEM skills of gifted young scientists

Literature Review of Nature of Science and Explicit-Reflective Instruction: A Strategy Design in Scientific Literacy

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