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Makale Özeti:
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The purpose of the present laboratory study is to make it possible to internalize the concepts, principles,
theories and the laws of chemistry taught in the courses by observing the experiments, give information about the
methods used and various techniques and tools applied and introduce some substances and their characteristics. The
purpose of the laboratory courses help students realize real and meaningful learning by forming relations between
theoretical knowledge learned in the courses and laboratory studies. The purpose of this study is to look at to what
extent experiments conducted in laboratory setting are influential on students’ learning and emphasize the
importance of think, explain, apply method. From the two groups of students of Science Teaching department four
groups were constructed as Control 1 (C1), Experimental 1 (E1) and Control 2 (C2), Experimental 2 (E2) in two
separate terms. Pre-test was administered to the groups and according to the results of this test, it was found that
there is no significance difference between experimental groups and control groups (p<0.70). Success scores
obtained from the post-test, on the other hand, indicated a significant difference in favor of the E2 group where
think, explain, apply method was used (p<0.85).
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