Opinions of Science and Art Center Teachers About Out-Of-School Learning Environments

In this study, it investigated whether there was a significant difference between level of use the Out-of-School Learning Environments by Science and Art Center (Bilsem) teachers and their “Attitude”, “Effectiveness”, “Competence” and “Behavior” levels towards these environments according to gender, age, the higher education institution of graduation and branch. The study was conducted with science, chemistry, physics and biology teachers working at Bilsem. 277 teachers participated in the study voluntarily. Data were collected using the out-of-school learning environments scale, which consists of 24 items and is arranged in a 5-point Likert type. According to the analysis results, it can be stated that the skills of Bilsem teachers regarding “attitude towards out-of-school learning environments” and “effectiveness towards out-of-school learning environments” are high, while “competence towards out-of-school learning environments” and “behavior towards out-of-school learning averages” are high. It was concluded that their skills were at a medium level compared to others. As a result of the analysis of the effectiveness of the variables of branch, gender and graduated faculty on the teachers’ out-of-school learning environments scale score, it was seen that there was no significant difference between the teachers’ levels of use of out-of-school learning environments.