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The present study aims to examine the drawings of pre-service science and technology teachers about the digestive system in terms of certain variables, which are gender, grade levels, and levels of knowledge about the drawing method and the digestive system. With this object in mind, the pre-service teachers’ drawings were analyzed in terms of three main groups of criteria, including the variables of gender and grade level, opinions about the drawing method, and opinions toward the knowledge levels about the digestive system. The research was conducted with 95 pre-service science and technology teachers studying in the Faculty of Education at Celal Bayar University during the academic year 2010-2011. The data collection instrument used in the study was Draw-A-Digestive System Test (DADST)
with two sections. The drawings were analyzed by using the Draw-A-Digestive System Test-Rubric (DADST-R) developed by the researchers. SPSS 17 software was employed to analyze the data obtained from the rubric. As revealed by an examination of the study results, the scores obtained by the pre-service teachers on their drawings about the digestive system did not significantly differ according to the gender variable, while there was a
significant difference according to the grade level variable in favor of the fourth-grade preservice teachers. Furthermore, the total scores obtained by the participants in the drawing test about the digestive system did not reveal any significant difference with regard to how they described their achievement status, while a significant difference was found with regard to their levels of knowledge about the digestive system. Nevertheless, 80% of the pre-service science and technology teachers stated that they would like to employ the drawing method during their in-service career. In the light of these results, certain suggestions are made for further studies on the digestive system and the drawing method.
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