Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
PROCEDIA COMPUTER SCIENCE, cilt.3, ss.1126-1130, 2011 (Hakemli Dergi)
Textbooks are the tools that act as a resource to teachers’ and adults’ learning lives [1]. Textbooks are the most reliable information source books when other sources of information such as the internet, educational games, demonstrations etc. are inadequate. Since students often gain knowledge from their own books by themselves, the information are of scientific value, accurate and reliable [2]. It was found that textbooks contain incorrect and inadequate information as a result of research conducted by The Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) [3].
This research was aimed to evaluate teachers’ and students’ opinions about secondary education chemistry textbooks. Working group of this study includes respectively chemistry teachers, secondary school students and Dokuz Eylul University students of chemistry education.
A questionnaire was applied to determine teachers’ and students’ opinions related to textbooks, at the same time semi structured interviews were conducted with teachers and students. Applied questionnaire consists of seven sub-dimensions. These subdimensions are general physical properties, cover features, interior cover features, preparatory studies, evaluation studies, content and method. Opinions of teachers and students on this dimensions are determined by three evaluation criteria being yes, no and partly. In the results of the semi structured interviews, it was determined that the content of textbooks was very intensive for the secondary school students and the preparatory studies were insufficient. In addition to these, it was found that the activities in the textbooks were few.