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European Journal of Education Studies ISSN: 2501 - 1111 ISSN-L: 2501 - 1111 Available on-line at: www.oapub.org/edu Volume 3 │Issue 6 │2017 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.583777 INVESTIGATING OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE VIEWS OF THE PROSPECTIVE SCIENCE TEACHERS ON THE NATURE OF SCIENTIFIC MODELS AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENT ON THE TOPIC OF ATOM Ayşegül Derman1, Kadriye Kayacan2 Gaziantep University, 1 Gaziantep Education Faculty, Turkey Necmettin Erbakan University, 2 Education Faculty of ‚hmet Keleşoğlu, Turkey Abstract: A non-experimental descriptive and correlational design was used to examine the notion of the nature of scientific model, atom achievement and correlation between the two held by a total sample of 76 prospective science teachers. Students Understanding of Models in Science scale was utilized to evaluate the views of the prospective science teachers on the nature of scientific models. ‚tom ‚chievement Test was used to determine the achievement levels of the prospective science teachers. Some meaningful outcomes were obtained related to the views of the prospective science teachers on the nature of scientific models. No any significant relationship was observed between the views of the prospective science teachers on the nature of scientific models and their achievement in the topic of Atom. The findings have been analysed by comparing them with the relevant literature and the implications to enhance prospective science teachers modeling ability have been discussed. Keywords: chemistry education, nature of scientific models, the atom topic, prospective science teachers For downloading the full article, please access the following link: http://oapub.org/edu/index.php/ejes/article/view/769 Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved. © 2015 – 2017 Open Access Publishing Group 541