Parents' use of the scientific concepts in daily life and students' science success

The aim of this study is to carry out an investigation to reveal the relationship between the frequency of use of scientific concepts by parents and students' science success. The use of science concepts by families in the home environment is important for the student's science success. This research was carried out with a total of 379 fourth grade students and their parents in one private and four state primary schools in Istanbul in the 2021-2022 academic year. Survey type research method was used. The data were collected with the scientific concept test applied to the students and the scientific concept scale applied to the parents. The quantitative data obtained at the end of the process were analyzed with the SPSS 25 package program and evaluated with the descriptive analysis method. One-way ANOVA, t-test and linear regression were used for analysis of data. As a results of the research, it was determined that there was a significant relationship between the frequency of use of scientific concepts by parents and students' success in science. The use of scientific concepts by parents predicted students' scientific concept success in a statistically significant and positive way. On the other hand, there was a statistically meaningful yet slight difference among different education level of the parents and using scientific concepts of parents with daughters are higher than those of families with sons. The scores on using scientific concepts of the female participants were higher than the male participants. Parents' use of scientific concepts can explain 18.8% of the variance of students' success in scientific concepts. Key Words: scientific concepts, science success, parents' involvement