GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
BASICS OF SCIENCE AND TEACHING/4430037
Course Title: BASICS OF SCIENCE AND TEACHING
Credits 3 ECTS 7.5
Course Semester 1 Type of The Course Elective
COURSE INFORMATION
 -- (CATALOG CONTENT)
 -- (TEXTBOOK)
 -- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)
 -- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- COURSE OBJECTIVES
 -- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is face to face
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  What is meant by the nature of science? The relationship between nature of science and history,philosophy,sociology of science.
2. Week  Scientific literacy and nature of science
3. Week  Views on the content of nature of science.
4. Week  Consensual understandings about nature of science(the myths and aspects of nature of science)
5. Week  Theory-ladenness of observations
6. Week  The difference between observation and inference, empirical nature of scientific knowledge.
7. Week  The tentativeness of scientific knowledge; differences and relationships among the theory, law, and models
8. Week  Midterm
9. Week  Is there a method called the scientific method?
10. Week  The role and importance of imagination and creativity in science
11. Week  The socio-cultural factors in science
12. Week  Approaches for teaching nature of science
13. Week  Teaching nature of science practices
14. Week  Final exam
15. Week  
16. Week  
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
1
20
 Assignment
4
10
 Application
0
0
 Projects
1
10
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Percent of In-term Studies  
40
 Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score  
60
 -- WORKLOAD
 Activity  Total Number of Weeks  Duration (weekly hour)  Total Period Work Load
 Weekly Theoretical Course Hours
14
3
42
 Weekly Tutorial Hours
0
 Reading Tasks
13
2
26
 Searching in Internet and Library
13
2
26
 Material Design and Implementation
2
8
16
 Report Preparing
13
2
26
 Preparing a Presentation
2
6
12
 Presentation
2
1
2
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
1
8
8
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
1
8
8
 Other (should be emphasized)
3
8
24
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
190
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
7.6
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
7.5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1X
2X
3X
4X
5X
6X
7X
8X
9X
10X
11X
12X
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Assoc.Prof. Halil TÜMAY)
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (www.websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/tumay)
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (tumay@gazi.edu.tr)