The comparison of fourth grade students’ essays based on free and guided writing technique in terms of the quality of written expression
February 2015
Writing exercises are more effective than grammar rules in terms of making children acquire language skills. Knowing the characteristics of text genres and the rules of writing are not enough to improve writing skills of teacher candidates and to acquire necessary strategies for teaching how to write. Teachers would be uncertain about assessment and scoring students work and have difficulty deciding the content of mini...
The influence of self-efficacy and motivational factors on academic performance in general chemistry course: A modeling study
February 2015
This study aims to determine the predictive and explanatory model in terms of university students’ academic performance in ‘General Chemistry’ course and their motivational features. The participants were 169 university students in the 1st grade at university. Of the participants, 132 were female and 37 were male students. Regarding their department, while 89 of them were students at Chemistry...
The impact of functional reading instruction on individual and social life
February 2015
The functional importance of reading instruction with regard to society and individual is an undeniable fact. One of the essential goals of education is to actualize reading instruction which has a very important role in adopting the values of the contemporary civilization. Considering teaching, these educational goals which are based on a solid ground, reading instruction plays a very important role. With its...
Development of pre-service science teachers’ awareness of sustainable water use*
February 2015
Water is a vital resource for sustainable development. The aim of this research was to develop and evaluate pre-service science teachers’ awareness of sustainable water usage. This research was based on a mixed method. The qualitative part of the research was based on a single group pretest-posttest experimental design, and the qualitative data were collected by open-ended questions. The quantitative data...
Investigation of pre-service physical education teachers’ attitudes towards computer technologies (Case of Turkey)
February 2015
Elicitation of pre-service physical education teachers’ attitudes towards computer technologies seems to be of great importance to satisfy the conditions to be met for the conscious and effective use of the technologies required by the age to be used in educational settings. In this respect, the purpose of the present study is to investigate pre-service physical education teachers’ attitudes towards computer...
Constructing models in teaching of chemical bonds: Ionic bond, covalent bond, double and triple bonds, hydrogen bond and molecular geometry
February 2015
Studies in chemistry education show that chemistry topics are considered as abstract, complicated and hard to understand by students. For this reason, it is important to develop new materials and use them in classes for better understanding of abstract concepts. Moving from this point, a student-centered research guided by a teacher was conducted by constructing models for teaching chemical bonds. A one-group pre-test...
Identifying accurate equivalents between Turkish and Arabic for foreign language teaching
February 2015
The aim of this study is to make a list of accurate equivalents between Turkish and Arabic in order to help Arabic-speaking students learn Turkish as a second language, and offer teachers a guide to categorize and teach these lists. Equivalence between the different dialects of Turkish has been studied intensively by linguists.i However, a review of literature in teaching Turkish as a foreign language shows that...
Blending East and West for holistic education
February 2015
Education is under pressure to respond to the changing modern world. Education system worldwide aims to develop students into well-rounded citizens and help them become creative problem-solvers. Several theories have been proposed in the research literature which emphasizes the importance of social and cultural context to creativity. Eastern and Western world are extremely complex and differentiated both politically and...
Effects of computer course on computer self-efficacy, computer attitudes and achievements of young individuals’ in Siirt, Turkey
February 2015
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of computer courses on young individuals’ computer self-efficacy, attitudes and achievement. The study group of this research included 60 unemployed young individuals (18-25 ages) in total; 30 in the experimental group and 30 in the control group. An experimental research model with pretest posttest control group was used in the research. The data collection...
Effects of conceptual change text based instruction on ecology, attitudes toward biology and environment
February 2015
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of the conceptual change text based instruction on ninth grade students’ understanding of ecological concepts, and attitudes toward biology and environment. Participants were 82 ninth grade students in a public high school in the Northwestern Turkey. A treatment was employed over a five-week period with quasi-experimental design. While two classes were called...
Effects of high school students’ perceptions of school life quality on their academic motivation levels
February 2015
This study aims to identify the effects of high school students’ perceptions of school life quality on their academic motivation levels. The study was conducted on a sample of high school students (n=2371) in Amasya Province in the fall semester of 2013-2014 academic year. Study sample was selected with the help of cluster sampling method. Data were collected via personal information form developed by researchers,...
A study on students’ satısfactıon based on qualıty standards of accedıtatıon ın hıgher educatıon
February 2015
Quality standards are evaluated by the Higher Educational Institutions by self evaluation at different levels and are also assessed by external agencies. Application of quality standards in administrative practices have been associated with the quality of higher education. To improve the quality of administrative practices, evaluation scales are applied and the outcomes in terms of Quality perceived by...
Why Rural Community Day Secondary Schools students’ performance in Physical Science examinations is poor in Lilongwe Rural West Education District in Malawi
February 2015
A study was conducted to investigate factors that affect students’ poor performance in physical science examinations at Malawi School Certificate of Education and Junior Certificate of Education levels in Community day secondary schools (CDSS) in Lilongwe Rural West Education District in Malawi. Students’ performance was collected from schools’ Malawi National Examination Board results. Focus group...
Book reading motivation scale: Reliability and validity study
February 2015
Book reading enhances the intellectual world of people. It is very important to know the factors that motivate children to read books as it will help to instill book reading habit in them. As such, the present study aims to develop a “Book Reading Motivation Scale” to determine elementary and secondary school students’ reading motivation. First, a draft scale consisting of 25 items was constructed....
The extent to which pre-service Turkish Language and Literature Teachers could apply summarizing rules in informative texts
February 2015
The purpose of the present study is to determine the extent to which pre-service Turkish Language and Literature teachers possess summarizing skill. Answers to the following questions were sought in the study: What is the summarizing skill level of the pre-service Turkish Language and Literature teachers? Which of the summarizing rules are difficult to apply for the pre-service teachers? The study employed the survey...
Turkish language student teachers’ use of instructional materials in teaching Turkish
February 2015
The aim of the present study is to identify which materials Turkish student teachers use in teaching practicum and the usage characteristics of these materials. This is a descriptive study using survey model. The participants of the study were 75 final year students, 35 females and 40 males, studying at the Turkish Language Teaching Department of Mehmet Akif Ersoy University’s Education Faculty in the 2012-2013...
The importance of positive discipline approach in making students gaın multimedia course content
February 2015
In this study, the importance of multimedia contents for effective learning, effective classroom management and building behaviors within the framework of positive discipline approach was emphasized. A questionnaire consisting of 24 items, whose validity and reliability were established, was prepared. The questionnaire was administered to 1474 students from three randomly-selected primary schools situated in the five...
Computer self-efficacy, computer anxiety, performance and personal outcomes of Turkish physical education teachers
February 2015
The purpose of this study is to determine the computer self-efficacy, performance outcome, personal outcome, and affect and anxiety level of physical education teachers. Influence of teaching experience, computer usage and participation of seminars or in-service programs on computer self-efficacy level were determined. The subjects of this study were 145 physical education teachers. Data were collected by survey which...
Students’ perceptions and development of conceptual understanding regarding trigonometry and trigonometric function
February 2015
This study aims to analyse university level mathematics education students’ perceptions on conceptual understanding of trigonometry and trigonometric functions and their content development of these concepts. A case study was conducted with 90 freshman students of Elementary Mathematics Department. The data were gathered via a scale; they included ten questions related to perceptions of concept knowledge and a...
The relation between self-esteem levels and life quality levels of disabled and non-disabled tennis sportsmen
February 2015
This research was carried out to determine the self-esteem and life quality levels of disabled and non-disabled tennis sportsmen; and also to set forth the relation between their self-esteem and life quality levels. The research group consists of total 44 sportsmen including 22 disabled tennis sportsmen (n (female)=9, n(male)=13) and 22 non-disabled tennis sportsmen (n(female)=9, n(male)=13). The personal information...
Promoting reasoned argumentation in science for lower secondary students
February 2015
In this era, society needs young students to think and do what they should do in the 21st century. This research aims to promote reasoned argumentation in science for lower secondary students, which is relevant to prepare citizen in a world of change. The participants in this study were 33 lower secondary students. The findings found that instructional practices which promote reasoned argumentation as "CRABS...
Students’ attitude to cloud-based learning in university diverse environment: a case of Russia
January 2015
The paper explores the ways how Russian students with different social background view the cloud- based foreign language learning. The empirical data was collected through questionnaires and in-depth interviews of students from metropolitan and regional universities, taking into account the students’ family incomes, ethnic and religious affiliation. Quantative and qualitative methods were combined to interpret the...
An investigation of teacher candidates’ metacognitive skills according to their year of study at Canakkale
January 2015
The aim of the present study was to investigate the differences in teacher candidates’ metacognitive skills analyzed according to the year of study in their undergraduate program they were in. The research methodology in the study was survey. Among survey types, the cross-sectional design was used. The sample of the study included a total of 1072 students (322 male and 750 female) who studied in the Elementary...
Adaptation of economy attitude scale to Turkish culture: Validity and reliability study
January 2015
Economics affects us no matter what role we play in social life. Its foundation as a science was laid by the studies of Adam Smith, and since history it has become one of the disciplines accepted in university curriculums. Scarcity, opportunity costs and abandoning something in order to obtain another one are the core concepts of this discipline. These three concepts represent the heart of Economics and generally...
Violence tendencies of high school students: an examination in terms of exposure to violence, participation in sports and socio-demograpic attributes
January 2015
The purpose of this study was to determine the violence tendencies of young people studying in high school in terms of their participation in sports, status of exposure to violence and socio-demographic variables. It was also aimed to evaluate whether the identified violence tendency differed significantly by gender, grade, school success, features of the living place, parental education, economic level, doing sports or...
Longitudinal investigation of perceptions towards university concept through metaphors: A university Sample in Turkey
January 2015
This study aims to fill the gap in the field of observation-based longitudinal studies about metaphors in educational literature and investigates students’ perceptions about the concept of universty before and after university by identifying and comparing the change and the direction of change observed in perceptions. The phenomenological study was conducted on 128 Abant Ä°zzet Baysal University first year...
Gender disparity analysis in academic achievement at higher education preparatory schools: Case of South Wollo, Ethiopia
January 2015
Gender is among the determinant factors affecting students’ academic achievement. This paper tried to investigate the impact of gender on academic performance of preparatory secondary school students based on 2014 EHEECE result. Ex post facto research design was used. To that end, data were collected from 3243 students from eight purposively selected schools. The analysis has been undertaken quantitatively using...
Unforgettable teaching: Memoirs of pre-service teachers’ encounters with good teaching
January 2015
This study aims to analyze pre-service teachers’ narrations about important teaching experiences, which mostly affected them and which they mostly enjoyed. In the present study, a qualitative research was used. The study was carried out with 214 pre-service teachers in MuÄŸla, Turkey who wrote short memoirs on learning experiences as prompted by a research question. In these memoirs, they shared those...
The relationship between physical activity level, body mass index, and body fat percentage in urban and rural elementary school students
January 2015
The purpose of this study is to compare the physical activity levels, physical activity types, Body Mass Index (BMI) and body fat percentage (BF%) values of elementary school students living in rural and urban. Body height (BH), body weight (BW), BF% and BMI data were measured. Physical activity questionnaire was conducted to determine the activity types and daily activity habits of the subjects. As a result of the...
The impact of coenzyme Q10 supplement on the indicators of muscle damage in young male skiing athletes
January 2015
This study was conducted in order to know the impact of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) supplement on the muscle damage and total oxidant (TOS) enzyme levels of young skiing athletes during exercise. 15 male athletes were used for two weeks in the study. The athletes were divided into three groups: the control group and two subject groups taking 100 mg and 200 mg CoQ10. A maximal exercise program with 70-80% overload was applied...
Investigation of students’ attitudes towards e-learning in terms of different variables—A case study in a technical and vocational high school for girls
January 2015
This study aims at determining the attitudes towards e-learning among the students of technical and vocational high school for girls and examining them in terms of certain variables. Singular and relational survey methods were used. The sample consisted of 119 students of technical and vocational high school for girls. Data were collected through a paper based survey consisting of two parts. In the first part of the...
Analysing instructors’ view regarding the efficiency of the Turkish history subjects presented in Turkey social studies textbooks
January 2015
Just like it is the reflex of each nation to teach its own history to the next generations, it is essential that our country is also able to identify the sufficiency level of the Turkish history within the framework of developing a programme. Through this study, the parallelism between the social studies teaching programme within the education process and the textbooks and the instructors’ views regarding the way...
Development of a scale for evaluating the pedagogical formation program implemented with Turkish prospective teachers
January 2015
The current study aims to develop a scale to evaluate the Pedagogical Formation Program implemented at a Turkish state university. Participants were 221 prospective teachers enrolled in the Pedagogical Formation Program in the 2010-2011 academic year. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted on the scale items which revealed four factors sheltering 26 items. The scale was administered again to 215 participants at...
Internal validity: A must in research designs
January 2015
In experimental research, internal validity refers to what extent researchers can conclude that changes in the dependent variable (that is, outcome) are caused by manipulations to the independent variable. This causal inference permits researchers to meaningfully interpret research results. This article discusses internal validity threats in social and educational research using examples from the contemporary...
Evaluating secondary school students’ levels of five mind areas in terms of some variables
January 2015
Gardner’s “Five Minds for the Future” approach is focused on disciplined, synthesizing, creative, respectful, and ethical minds. Based on this approach, the purpose of this research is to determine senior secondary school students’ levels of five mind areas, and investigate the relationship between these mind areas and the students’ socioeconomic status, gender, professions they wish to...
A comparison of levels of quality of life, depression and loneliness among athletes with different levels of training
January 2015
The purpose of this study is to compare the levels of life quality, depression and loneliness among the students of the Faculty of Sports Sciences (FSS), national wrestlers and non national wrestlers in terms of some demographic variables. The participants of the study included 37 students from the Faculty of Sports Sciences of Ondokuz Mayıs University, 40 wrestlers in national team and 36 wrestlers who are not in the...
The high school students' views on the necessity of private courses for accessing higher education (Siirt sample)
January 2015
The aim of this research is to determine high school students’ opinions regarding the necessity of private courses in the transition to higher education. For this purpose, the descriptive research method has been applied. As a data collection tool, an interview which has both quantitative and qualitative structure in other words a hybrid structure was used. The population of the research included all high and...
Adaptation of the boundary violations scale developed based on structural family therapy to the Turkish context: A study of validity and reliability
January 2015
The purpose of this study was to adapt “The Boundary Violations Scale” (Madden et al., 2002), which was created to measure the intergenerational boundary violations in families from the perspective of children, to Turkish and to test the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of this instrument. This instrument was developed based on structural family therapy and aimed at measuring boundary...
An investigation into the relationship between academic risk taking and chemistry laboratory anxiety in Turkey
January 2015
This study evaluates the relationship between academic risk taking and chemistry laboratory anxiety using a relational scanning model. The research sample consisted of 127 undergraduate students (sophomores, juniors and seniors) in the Chemistry Teaching Department at Dicle University. This research was done in the spring semester of the 2012 to 2013 academic year. The Chemistry Laboratory Anxiety Scale, developed by...
Prospective teachers’ metaphorical perceptions on the concept of science
January 2015
The aim of this study is to reveal prospective teachers’ perceptions of the concept of science by asking them to use metaphors to describe it. A metaphor elicitation method was employed in this study. The data obtained from the study were considered with both quantitative and qualitative (Content Analysis) analyses. The study determined the metaphors used to express the concept of science by prospective teachers,...
Applying athletic identity measurement scale on physical Educators: Turkish version of AIMS
January 2015
In sports research, defining athletic identity of individuals is an important study subject. The subject owes its significance to the fact that an individual’s athletic identity affects his other identities throughout his life span. The aim of this study is to test the reliability and validity of the Turkish version of Athletic Identity Measurement Scale (AIMS). The sample of the study was selected among 501...
Social Emotional Learning and Educational Stress: A Predictive Model
January 2015
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between social emotional learning and educational stress. Participants were 321 elementary students. Social emotional learning and educational stress scale were used as measures. The relationships between social emotional learning and educational stress were examined using correlation analysis and stepwise regression analysis. Correlation analysis showed that sub...
Classroom management and students’ self-esteem: Creating positive classrooms
January 2015
Middle school students experience substantial changes in their emotion and cognition while they grow. They have mixed feelings, which may negatively affect their motivation, self-esteem, and academic success due to different classroom management strategies of their teachers. There is available research about motivation of middle school students and classroom management approaches of middle school teachers. However,...
Determining positions and desired applicant characteristics in sports job ads
January 2015
The purpose of this study is to determine the diversity of positions occurring in sports job ads and reveal the characteristics requested from applicants for each position. This study examined 103 sports-related job ads obtained from four human resources websites. Using content analysis, job ads were examined in terms of job titles, and the characteristics obtained from each job description were expressed by tabulating...
An adaptation, validity and reliability of the lifespan sibling relationship scale to the Turkish adolescents
January 2015
The purpose of this study is to adapt the Lifespan Sibling Relationship Scale (LSRS) developed by Riggio (2000) to Turkish. The scale with its original form in English consists of 48 items in total. The original scale was translated into Turkish by three instructors who are proficient both in the field and the language. Later, the original and Turkish form of the scale was submitted to expert opinion and the final...
An analysis on the pattern generalizations of the Turkish pre-service Mathematics teachers that are presented in a different structure and presentation
January 2015
The pattern, which is a key concept in understanding the mathematical information and concepts, is the basis in comprehending mathematical relations and in understanding mathematical order and logic. The fact that students discover the relationships contained within the patterns and generalize them helps them develop their skills to better perceive the world around them. The major factors in the development of these...
Critical thinking dispositions of pre-service teachers
January 2015
This study investigated the critical thinking dispositions of pre-service teachers in terms of various variables. The study included 1106 participants and used the survey model and the Turkish version (CCTDI-T) of the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (CCTDI). The reliability of the scale for this study was found to be .82. The significance level of the study was set at .01. The study identified...
A comparative study on power point presentation and traditional lecture method in material understandability, effectiveness and attitude
January 2015
The aim of this study was to compare PPT and traditional lecture method in material understandability, effectiveness and attitude among university students. Comparative descriptive survey research design was employed to answer the research questions raised. Four hundred and twenty nine participants were selected randomly using stratified sampling followed by lottery method. Questionnaire was used to get data from the...
Foreign language reading anxiety: Does it really exist?
December 2014
Recent research on foreign language anxiety appears to support the existence of language skill specific anxiety. The principal goal of the present study is to confirm empirically that foreign language (FL) reading anxiety is a specific anxiety type distinguishable from the more general types of FL anxiety (FLA) in the Turkish EFL context. There is also a need for the deep exploration of the possible sources of reading...
A comparison of preservice teachers’ beliefs on education and classroom management
December 2014
The beliefs held by preservice teachers will affect their classroom perceptions and behaviors. Therefore, understanding these beliefs is necessary to better understand preservice teachers, manage educational reforms successfully, and improving their teaching practice. From another perspective, understanding the belief structures of preservice teachers is important to improve their professional readiness and...
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