A comparative analysis of earth science education practices in elementary schools in Turkey and in the US

Uçar S.

PROBLEMS OF EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY, cilt.11, sa.11, ss.170-182, 2009 (ESCI)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 11 Sayı: 11
  • Basım Tarihi: 2009
  • Dergi Adı: PROBLEMS OF EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.170-182
  • Çukurova Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Research in education gives initiatives to countries evaluate and modify their curriculum. Large-scale international
assessments such as TIMSS usually inspire these curriculum reforms by that countries compare the
results of large-scale assessments with other countries’ scores. Domestic practices also need to be considered
for the educational reforms because domestic practices can picture education systems very clearly that international
studies might not be able to detect. To make better curriculum decisions both the domestic practices
and the large-scale international assessments need to be evaluated together. As a result, local implementations
of specifi c content might be very informative to improve the curriculum of other countries. The purpose of
the current study is to compare earth science education in Turkey and in the USA in elementary school levels
and identify the characteristics of the instructional practices in order to make suggestions to improve earth
science education.