Determining Secondary School Students’ Knowledge and Awareness about Antarctica
Antarctica has been an object of interest for a long. It is considered important to increase individuals awareness and knowledge about Antarctica. The accuracy of individuals’ scientific knowledge plays an important role in creating the awareness. In this study, the 349 secondary school students’ kn...
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ftupendidikanind:oai:ojs.ejournal.upi.edu:article/27537 2023-06-18T03:37:31+02:00 Determining Secondary School Students’ Knowledge and Awareness about Antarctica Ursavas, Nazihan Kandemir, Raif 2020-11-27 application/pdf https://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/jslearning/article/view/68 https://doi.org/10.17509/jsl.v4i1.27537 eng eng Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia https://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/jslearning/article/view/68/pdf https://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/jslearning/article/view/68 doi:10.17509/jsl.v4i1.27537 Copyright (c) 2020 Nazihan Ursavas, Raif Kandemir http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 Journal of Science Learning; Vol 4, No 1 (2020): Journal of Science Learning; 61-68 2614-6568 10.17509/jsl.v4i1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2020 ftupendidikanind https://doi.org/10.17509/jsl.v4i1.2753710.17509/jsl.v4i1 2023-06-06T01:05:23Z Antarctica has been an object of interest for a long. It is considered important to increase individuals awareness and knowledge about Antarctica. The accuracy of individuals’ scientific knowledge plays an important role in creating the awareness. In this study, the 349 secondary school students’ knowledge and awareness about Antarctica was determined quantitatively with a questionnaire. Nineteen questions, including current topics were prepared. that addressed from biological geographic and climatic perspectives. According to the findings, 40% of the students thought Antarctica is in the North Pole, 42.6% thought polar bears and penguins live together; 46.6% thought Antarctica is best visited during summer months, 70.5% thought most glaciers are located in the northern hemisphere. Based on these findings, it can be said that students have inadequate and alternative conceptions about Antarctica. Studies can be conducted to determine how best to increase students’ awareness. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica North Pole Electronic Journal of Indonesia University of Education North Pole Journal of Science Learning 4 1 61 68 |
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Antarctica has been an object of interest for a long. It is considered important to increase individuals awareness and knowledge about Antarctica. The accuracy of individuals’ scientific knowledge plays an important role in creating the awareness. In this study, the 349 secondary school students’ knowledge and awareness about Antarctica was determined quantitatively with a questionnaire. Nineteen questions, including current topics were prepared. that addressed from biological geographic and climatic perspectives. According to the findings, 40% of the students thought Antarctica is in the North Pole, 42.6% thought polar bears and penguins live together; 46.6% thought Antarctica is best visited during summer months, 70.5% thought most glaciers are located in the northern hemisphere. Based on these findings, it can be said that students have inadequate and alternative conceptions about Antarctica. Studies can be conducted to determine how best to increase students’ awareness. |
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