Dokuzuncu Sınıflarda Enerji Konusunun Öğretimi Üzerine Bir Durum Çalışması

Abstract

In this study, it was aimed to describe the way that energy is taught as a topic in Grade 9 at secondary schools. Due to the purpose of the study, which involves a detailed description of the current situation, a descriptive case study pattern based on observation was used. The participants of the study were three physics teachers, who taught energy in Grade 9 of three different Anatolian high schools in Ankara as well as 85 students enrolled in these schools. Participants were determined according to the criteria sampling method among the purposive sampling methods due to the fact that the grade level was Grade 9 of the secondary school, a comparison was aimed to be made between the teaching of energy in the previous curriculum and the recent curriculum and that physics teachers were required to have been teaching Grade 9 for at least two years.