(İstanbul Kültür Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2007-09) SARIER, NİHAL
Although chemistry keeps an important place in the science curricula of primary and secondary educations, studenttypically leave high school with misunderstandings about the nature of matter ,chemical processes, and chemical world.
This study aims to identify the attitudes of engineering freshmen towards chemistry in Turkey. It also tries to identify classifications and examples of matter, commonly used by chemistry teachers in secondary schools; those are likely to be misunderstood by students. It offers teachers some suggestions contributing to raise their students awareness of learning chemistry.
