Evaluation of the effect of social studies on preparation of students for science courses accordiong to the teachers' opinions

This study aims to collect and analyze teachers? opinions about evaluation of the effect of social studies on preparation of students for science courses. The study group comprises 144 teachers randomly selected in the city of Afyonkarahisar and the towns and villages in the province by the same name. In analyzing the data collected, percentages, arithmetic mean, t-test and ANOVA variance analysis methods have been used.According to the findings of the research, the views of the teachers about evaluation of the effect of social studies on preparation of students for science courses no significant differences were found with respect to gender, number of years served but vary significantly according to the grade being taught. The developed scale was divided into four factors in itself. On examining the findings consisting of these four factors a great deal of teachers who participated in the inquiry selected the answer `indecisive? on the readiness factor for theme-concept-acquisitions. And they selected the answer `agree? for the other factors.