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- Title
Primary School Students' Cognitive Structures About Nutrient Content: Word Association Test.
- Authors
İÇİNGİR, İlke; ÇETİN, Gülcan
- Abstract
The study aimed to examine the cognitive structures of primary school students about nutrient content by using a word association test. The case study design, which is a qualitative research method, was used in the study. Participants of the study included 41 fourth grade students in a public school in Bursa in the 2021-2022 academic year. Data were collected by a word association test and analyzed by the content analysis method. The study revealed that 11 themes related to proteins were formed and the most associated sub-theme was the milk, meat, fish, and egg food group. 14 themes were identified for carbohydrates and the most associated sub-theme was the bread and cereals. 13 themes related to fats were created and the most associated sub-theme was the oil seeds. Regarding vitamins 12 themes were created and the most associated sub-theme was the fruits. 13 themes were created for water and 14 themes were created for minerals. While the sub-theme most associated with water was the beverages, the most commonly associated sub-theme for minerals was mineral resources. The students mostly left blank and established wrong relationships was the concept of minerals.
- Subjects
BURSA (Turkey); SCHOOL children; COGNITIVE structures; MINES &; mineral resources; EGGS as food; OILSEEDS
- Publication
Necatibey Faculty of Education Electronic Journal of Science & Mathematics Education, 2023, p593
- ISSN
1307-6086
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17522/balikesirnef.1286275