The Effects of Project Based Learning on Undergraduate Students’ Achievement and Self-Efficacy Beliefs Towards Science Teaching

Ibrahim Bilgin; Yunus Karakuyu; Yusuf Ay

doi:10.12973/eurasia.2014.1015a

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Ibrahim Bilgin ¹ ^* , Yunus Karakuyu ², Yusuf Ay ³

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¹ Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi, TURKEY² Uşak Üniversitesi, TURKEY³ Eskisehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi, TURKEY^* Corresponding Author

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of the Project-Based Learning (PBL) method on undergraduate students’ achievement and its association with these students’ self-efficacy beliefs about science teaching and pinions about PBL. The sample of the study consisted of two randomly chosen classes from a set of seven classes enrolled in the Science Teaching Course in a Primary School Education Department of a State University in Turkey. The randomly assigned treatment group (n =33) was instructed based on a PBL method. The control group (n = 33) was instructed through the use of a traditional teaching (TT) method. The Science and Technology Teaching Achievement Test (STTAT) and self-efficacy belief scale (SEBS) were used as pre- and post-test measures. The results showed that students in the treatment group produced better performance on the Post- SEBS and the Post-STTAT. The students in the treatment group expressed mostly positive opinions about the use of the Project-Based Learning method.

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project-based learning
science and technology teaching
achievement
self-efficacy
student opinions

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Bilgin, I., Karakuyu, Y., & Ay, Y. (2015). The Effects of Project Based Learning on Undergraduate Students’ Achievement and Self-Efficacy Beliefs Towards Science Teaching. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 11(3), 469-477. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2014.1015a

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Bilgin I, Karakuyu Y, Ay Y. The Effects of Project Based Learning on Undergraduate Students’ Achievement and Self-Efficacy Beliefs Towards Science Teaching. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2015;11(3):469-77. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2014.1015a

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Bilgin I, Karakuyu Y, Ay Y. The Effects of Project Based Learning on Undergraduate Students’ Achievement and Self-Efficacy Beliefs Towards Science Teaching. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2015;11(3), 469-477. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2014.1015a

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Bilgin, Ibrahim, Yunus Karakuyu, and Yusuf Ay. "The Effects of Project Based Learning on Undergraduate Students’ Achievement and Self-Efficacy Beliefs Towards Science Teaching". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2015 11 no. 3 (2015): 469-477. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2014.1015a

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Bilgin, I., Karakuyu, Y., and Ay, Y. (2015). The Effects of Project Based Learning on Undergraduate Students’ Achievement and Self-Efficacy Beliefs Towards Science Teaching. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 11(3), pp. 469-477. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2014.1015a

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Bilgin, Ibrahim et al. "The Effects of Project Based Learning on Undergraduate Students’ Achievement and Self-Efficacy Beliefs Towards Science Teaching". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 11, no. 3, 2015, pp. 469-477. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2014.1015a