A Description of a Blind Student’s Science Process Skills through Health Physics

  • Mehmet Sahin Bulbul

Abstract

This study describes an approach for blind students thought health physics about how they could set a hypothesis and test it. The participant of the study used some health materials designed for high school blind student and tested her hypothesis with the data she gathered with those materials. It was asked that she should hypothesize which could be tested with the given material and reflected her own interest. At the last step of the case study she asked an expert to construct the data meaningful and tested her hypothesis. Positive expressions of blind student after her hypothesis testing, indicates that blind students possible use and develop their science process skills through health physics.

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Published
2017-02-28
How to Cite
BULBUL, Mehmet Sahin. A Description of a Blind Student’s Science Process Skills through Health Physics. European Journal of Physics Education, [S.l.], v. 4, n. 2, p. 1-13, feb. 2017. ISSN 1309-7202. Available at: <https://eu-journal.org/index.php/EJPE/article/view/84>. Date accessed: 03 may 2024.
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