GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION

TECHNIQUES USED IN TEACHING SCIENCE AND PROBING UNDERSTANDING/4430026

Course Title:	TECHNIQUES USED IN TEACHING SCIENCE AND PROBING UNDERSTANDING
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	Nature of Understanding
2. Week	Common characters of techniques used for the assessment understanding
3. Week	Concept mapping
4. Week	Applications of concept mapping
5. Week	Prediction – Observation – Explanation
6. Week	Applications of Prediction – Observation – Explanation
7. Week	Interviews on cases and events, and their applications
8. Week	Interviews on concepts, and their applications
9. Week	Drawings and their applications
10. Week	Venn diagrams and their applications
11. Week	Word associations and their applications
12. Week	Generation of questions by students
13. Week	Applications of generation questions by students
14. Week	Final Exam
15. Week
16. Week

-- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS

-- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

	Quantity	Total Weighting (%)
Midterm Exams	0	0
Assignment	0	30
Application	0	0
Projects	0	0
Practice	0	10
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	14	4	56
Searching in Internet and Library	14	1	14
Material Design and Implementation	8	5	40
Report Preparing			0
Preparing a Presentation	2	10	20
Presentation			0
Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam			0
Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam	1	20	20
Other (should be emphasized)			0
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			192
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			7.68
Course Credit (ECTS):			7.5

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

(Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hakkı KADAYIFÇI)

-- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)

(https://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/hakki)

-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

(hakki@gazi.edu.tr)

Gazi University