The Impacts of a Secondary School Science Exhibition on the Students in Charge

The aim of this study is investigating the impacts of a secondary school science exhibition on the students in charge in the exhibition. For this aim, researchers did the participant open observation and made semi structured interviews with 9 students in order to gather data. The data that was obtained from the interviews was analyzed with the content analysis method. Furthermore, the data that was obtained from the observations was used to compare with the data obtained from the interviews to see whether they show consistency or not. At the end of the analyses, 15 codes were determined for the positive impacts of the exhibition process on the students in charge and these codes were gathered under 4 categories. These categories were communication, positive emotions/abilities, awareness and knowledge. Besides, 10 codes were determined for the negative impacts of the exhibition on the students in charge and these codes were gathered under 4 different categories. These were teacher, audience, physical environment and student based reasons. What’s more, research results show that the data obtained from the interviews and the observations shows consistency. When, the negative impacts of the exhibition on the students in charge was considered, it was seen that teachers who organizes exhibition has principle roles and responsibilities and with the help of the teachers most of the negative effects can be destroyed or minimized

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