THE INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF PROBLEM BASED LEARNING AND SEXUALITY TO THE ATTITUDES TOWARD SCIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC PROCESS SKILLS OF PROSPECTIVE SCIENCE TEACHER: THE PROBLEM OF THE BOILER STONE

Esra BENLİ ¹ , Mustafa SARIKAYA ²

The aim of this study is the investigation of the effects of problem based learning and sexuality on attitudes toward science of prospective science teacher and the levels of scientific process skills in terms of the boiler stone problem. It is a research which is pre and post-test with control group design and it was performed in the fall term of 2009-2010 academic year with the department of Science Education 3rd grade students (Experimental n = 37 and Control n = 37; Girl, n = 63 and Boy, n = 11). The data of the research has been collected by the Attitude toward Science Test (ATST) and the Scientific Process Skills Test (SPST). The data has been analyzed by SPSS package program. In the practice, subject was taught with the problem based learning method in the experimental group and the traditional teaching method in the control group. There is a significant difference in the students’ difference between SPST level in favor of the experimental group. But there is no significant difference in the students’ difference between ATST. As a result Problem Based Learning (PBL) hadn’t impact on students’ attitudes toward science but PBL had a positive impact on students’ levels of scientific process skills.

Keywords
Problem Based Learning, The Boiler Stone, Water Hardness, Attitude, Scientific Process Skills,