An Investigation of Students’ Academic
Development, Views, and Feelings
through Journals

Dilek ERDURAN AVCI; Dilek KARACA

doi:10.12973/eurasia.2012.833a

An Investigation of Students’ Academic Development, Views, and Feelings through Journals

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Dilek ERDURAN AVCI ¹ ^* , Dilek KARACA ¹

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¹ Mehmet Akif Ersoy Üniversitesi, TURKEY^* Corresponding Author

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The purpose of this study was to investigate upper primary school students’ academic development in science courses and to evaluate their views and feelings about self-learning processes through journals. Students in 6th and 7th grade wrote journals twice a week for nine weeks. We evaluated the journals weekly according to the Science Journal Rubric (SCR), and individually observed students’ academic developments. Subsequently, we also evaluated the journals by focusing on expressions in which students revealed their views and feelings about learning processes, excluding scientific concepts. We grouped the expressions containing views and/or feelings about the learning process into five categories. These categories were classmates, teacher, self-expressions, courses, and journals. The results supported the assertion that journals contain information not only about students’ academic development but also about their personal and affective sides.

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student journal
science journal rubric
academic development
feelings

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, 2012, Volume 8, Issue 3, 177-188

https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2012.833a

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AVCI, D. E., & KARACA, D. (2012). An Investigation of Students’ Academic Development, Views, and Feelings through Journals. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 8(3), 177-188. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2012.833a

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AVCI DE, KARACA D. An Investigation of Students’ Academic Development, Views, and Feelings through Journals. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2012;8(3):177-88. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2012.833a

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AVCI DE, KARACA D. An Investigation of Students’ Academic Development, Views, and Feelings through Journals. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2012;8(3), 177-188. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2012.833a

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AVCI, Dilek ERDURAN, and Dilek KARACA. "An Investigation of Students’ Academic Development, Views, and Feelings through Journals". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2012 8 no. 3 (2012): 177-188. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2012.833a

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AVCI, D. E., and KARACA, D. (2012). An Investigation of Students’ Academic Development, Views, and Feelings through Journals. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 8(3), pp. 177-188. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2012.833a

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AVCI, Dilek ERDURAN et al. "An Investigation of Students’ Academic Development, Views, and Feelings through Journals". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 8, no. 3, 2012, pp. 177-188. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2012.833a