A field study at the University of Gaziantep-Afrin””
Attitudes of Students of Education Faculty towards the Use Concepts Maps Method
A field study at the University of Gaziantep-Afrin””
Dr. Abdulmuhaymen Dirshoy
Associate Professor in Curricula and Methodology – Syria
Abstract:
This study aims at identifying the attitudes of students of the faculty of education at the University of Gaziantep – Afrin towards the use of maps of concepts in teaching methodology. To achieve the purpose of the research, the scholar designed a measure for the attitudes made up of 27 phrases. Once reliability and – are assured, the measure was applied to a sample of 40 students, 21 of them belonging to department of classroom teacher, while the other 19 psychological counselling. The results showed that:
- The attitudes of students of Gaziantep – Afrin University were average.
- No differences of statistical significance were found concerning the average scores of the sample members on gender basis.
- No differences of statistical significance were found concerning the average scores of the sample members on specialization basis.
The research concluded with the following recommendations: encouraging the lecturers to use maps of concepts in teaching methodology and include some conceptual maps in their lectures.
Key words: attitudes – method – maps of concepts
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