Physıcs Teacher Candıdates and CERN in Medıa This study is a qualitative study which investigates the effects of the news related to “the Big Hadron Collusion experiments” performed in CERN on the candidates to become physics teacher.
The CERN media survey (CMDA), which consists of 12 semi open-ended questions, was applied to the physics students who attended to the pedagogical formation program of the Marmara University by getting the comments of the experts of the subject. The answers of the candidates to become physics teacher were evaluated by the descriptive analysis method, and the collected data were graphically presented by the aid of the frequency values of their answers. After the analysis of the collected data, the media effects on the candidates to become physics teacher in their scientifically understanding these experiments were handled in detail, and the media weighted factors which are effective in their understanding the mentioned experiments were commented. The reasons of the discrepancy in informing were discussed and the proposals about this issue were given.
