Students’ views on DNR-based instruction

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine student’ views on DNR-based instruction. A teaching experiment involving patterns and relations, analysis of variation, equations was designed and applied to 9 eighth grade students. The data set consists of students’ logs that students evaluate that day and camera records of interviews which every student is asked her/his opinions about the whole teaching experiment. The gathered data were analyzed by content analysis. The NVivo 8 program was used to analyze the data. According to the results of the study, the students’ opinions on DNR based instruction were gathered under some categories which were what was studied in the study, how these subject were taught, and which skill was tried to be developed. Briefly, according to the students, DNR-based teaching experiment can be considered as “composing of additive and related subjects, brainstorming on different solutions, for the students to constantly ask themselves questions to understand why such solved questions are so, desiring to solve questions and learn with the excitement of the perceived relationship”

Keywords: DNR based instruction, the views of students, teaching experiment.