Researching elementary students' points of view about science lesson by using mastery learning model

The objective of this research is to bring out the relationship between the cognitive, perceptional conceptions of elementary students about science lesson and their points of view about the learning strategies and achievement test results; and the variables such as school, the gender of the teacher and of the student, educational background and income level of the parents, and the support they receive to be successful.This research is a descriptive research which has been carried out with 289 8th grade elementary school students who are randomly chosen and studying in Makbule Süleyman Alkan Elemantary School, Tuğsavul Elemantary School, Ege İhracatçıları Birliği Elemantary School, Ali Kuşçu Elemantary School and Kaynaklar Elemantary School in the district of Buca in İzmir in the 2011-2012 academic year.The data for this research has been collected with the success test,cognitive and perceptional scales of 25 topics whose alpha reliability coefficients are 0.918 ,0.970 , 0.915 respectively and learning strategies scales of 23 topics whose alpha reliability coefficient is 0.922. Datas for the research are resolved with the SPSS statistics programme and percentage, variance analysis, Scheffe and t-test are used in the analysis of the data.According to the data collected in this research, there are meaningful differences between 8th grade students? and their gender, their type of school , income level of their parents and the support they received to be successful; the cognitive and perceptional conceptions about science lesson and their thoughts about the learning strategies and achievement test results.In 2010, selected by random technique and according to the results of SBS examination it has been concluded that Makbule Süleyman Alkan Elemantary School which is the most successful school between the elemantary schools in Buca district according to the SBS results, is more positive at all the scales except for perception scale. All scales and success test scores of the children whose families have higher income and education levels, showed increases in mean scores. In addition,the mean scores and the success test scores of the students with higher scores on the scales of the previous term are concluded to be more positive. Also It can be said that according to gender of the students; scores obtained from the scales and success tests have the similar levels.