Examining the effectiveness of the course materials prepared with the REACT strategy for science subjects

Changes in information, science and technology have provided developments in fields such as society, industry and education. It is seen that these developments progress in certain periods in a cyclical manner. With the fourth industrial revolution, the 21st century will be able to keep up with changes such as machine learning, deep learning, robotic systems, internet of things, artificial intelligence, have production and business intelligence, and meet social needs. The education period, which aims to raise individuals with skills, is defined as Education 4.0. The education process, which started as a master-apprentice relationship at the beginning of the industrial revolution, emerges as the processes in which learners can create a context with daily life and transfer them to new situations. It makes the necessary updates by making the current studies in our country. One of these updates took place in the students' high school entrance exams. It is seen that the structure of the questions has changed in the new exam system implemented since 2018. Looking at the questions in the high school entrance exam, it is seen that it is desired to have a relationship with daily life. In this context, it was aimed to determine the opinions of teachers about the exam and as a result, to examine the effectiveness of the course material developed in accordance with the REACT strategy for exam group students. For this purpose, the method of the study was determined as the exploratory sequential explanation design, which is one of the mixed research methods. Online interview form, achievement and concept tests were used to collect data. Content analysis, MWU test and unrelated samples t test were used in the analysis of the collected data. In the findings, it was determined that the material prepared was effective on the success of the students but did not make a significant difference on the scores they received from the concept test. According to the results, suggestions were made for future studies.