Elementary school students’ perceptions about nature of scientific knowledge and some pseudoscientific ideas

In early childhood, people develop some beliefs that can affect the whole lives. Developing pseudoscientific beliefs can cause differences on child’s nature of scientific knowledge. Giving importance on prevent gaining pseudoscientific knowledge may help qualified lifelong learning abilities. In this study, it was aimed to investigate the elementary school students’ nature of scientific knowledge and views about some common pseudoscientific ideas. Also some variables’ impacts on data collection tool scores were searched, too. The study was conducted on 2014-2015 educational year with 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade elementary school students. In the study, Nature of Scientific Knowledge Scale (NSKS) and eight statements were used to collect data. The aim of these eight statements was to figure out students’ pseudoscientific ideas about evolution and nature of science. SPSS 20.00 programme was used to analyze data. It was found that girls’ total scale scores were found higher than boys’ total scores.  Girls’ amoral, parsimonious, testable and unified sub-dimension scores were also found higher than boys’ scores. 7th grade students showed higher total scale scores than the other grade students. Also, it was seen that 7th grade students have more sophisticated knowledge about evolution than the nature of science features. At the end of the study the findings were discussed according to literature and some suggestions were given

Konvolusyon operatörleri için korovkin tipli yaklaşım

This thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter has been devoted to introduction. In the second chapter, the basic definitions and consepts have been recalled. The third chapter, Korovkin type approximation theorems and proofs have been examined for univariate convolution operators via Abel method. In the fourth chapter, Korovkin type approximation theorems and proofs have been examined for bivariate convolution operators. Also, in the final section of this capter, the Korovkin thpe approximation theorems and proofs are given for the bivariate convolution operators using the power series method.Bu tez dört bölümden oluşmaktadır. İlk bölüm giriş kısmına ayrılmıştır. İkinci bölümde, temel tanım ve kavramlar tanıtılıp bunlara ilişkin bilinen bazı sonuçlar hatırlatılmıştır. Üçüncü bölümde, Abel metodu yardımıyla tek değişkenli konvolusyon operatörleri için Korovkin tipli yaklaşım teoremleri ve ispatları incelenmiştir. Dördüncü bölümde, çift değişkenli konvolusyon operatörleri için Korovkin tipli yaklaşım teoremleri ve ispatları incelenmiştir. Ayrıca, bu bölümün son kısmında, kuvvet serisi metodu kullanılarak çift değişkenli konvolusyon operatörleri için Korovkin tipli yaklaşım teoremleri ve ispatları incelenmiştir

Rendering the mortal blow easier : special operations and the nature of strategy

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