Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
RENEWABLE ENERGY, cilt.60, ss.343-348, 2013 (SCI-Expanded)
Limited world fossil fuel reserves and the expectation that these reserves will soon be depleted, place increased importance on renewable energy resources. Therefore, it is highly critical to educate pre-service teachers, who will be bringing up future generations of school children, about renewable energy and resources. To that end, a 39 point questionnaire developed by Morgil et al. [1] have been applied to a total of 240 pre-service teachers (60 pre-service teachers each in first, second, third and fourth years) majoring in Elementary Science Teaching at a university in the Black Sea Region of Turkey, and their awareness of renewable energy topics were determined. The study has concluded that while no gender-based meaningful differences exist with respect to the awareness of pre-service teachers for renewable energy [t((238)) = 0.789, p > .05], there are differences based on year-of-study [F-(3,F-236) = 16.376, p < .051. An analysis based on pre-service teachers' years of study has resulted in statistically meaningful (p < .05) differences being found, with respect to awareness for renewable energy, upon comparing third year students with first (p = .000), second (p = .000) and fourth (p = .015) year students, and upon comparing fourth year students with first year students (p = .002). (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.