This study was designed as a qualitative–quantitative triangulation research, one of the mixed method designs in which the data are collected concurrently, with the purpose of examining the pre-service teachers’ components of self-efficacy beliefs in science teaching. The study was carried out with the participation of 189 pre-service science teachers. Data of the study was...
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between personality traits and prosocial and antisocial behaviors displayed in team athletes. In this respect, the data was collected from a total of 481 (64 females and 417 males) participants engaged in team sports. The relational screening model was used in the study. The Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior in Sports...
This study aims to investigate middle school students’ perceptions of history of science. The participants were a total of 140 students who studied at 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th middle school grade levels. A Word-Association-Test (WAT) was used to collect data. After data collection, frequencies of response-words were determined. By using cut-point technique, concept webs were drawn...
The aim of this study is to examine the opinions of students who have a gamification-enhanced online learning experiences to find clues about the design of online learning environments based on gamification. For this purpose, the opinions of students who took courses through gamification-enhanced online learning for eight weeks were examined through the case study method. The...
Education is a system that hands down cultural values and accumulated knowledge of societies to the next generations and that grows citizens in line with the structure of the society. In this system, such issues as purpose of education, how to educate individuals, what to teach and why, and upon which values the education system should be built are associated with the philosophy...
The reasons for teacher variability are not well understood. One possible reason for teacher variance might be their lesson planning. Utilizing a case study methodology, this study asked if teacher engaged reader (comprehension) lesson plan explicitness was related to differences in student outcomes by comparing teachers, utilizing data from a larger study. One of the factors...
Cognitive defusion is one of the components of psychological flexibility in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. The purpose of this study was to translate the Drexel Defusion Scale (DDS) into Turkish and test its psychometric properties. This two-phase study was carried out with two groups of participants. The first phase, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) included 370 university...
The purpose of the present study was to investigate school kindness and student covitality in Turkish primary schools which hosting Syrian refugee students. The study was carried out with 493 students (22,70% Syrian refugees, 11% Turkish internally displaced, 65,70% native). The School Kindness Scale (SKS) was used to measure school kindness. Additionally, the Positive...
The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable scale to measure the effects of COVID-19 on gifted students’ quality of life and analyse its effects on their quality of life considering some variables such as gender, age, education level, mother’s education level, father’s education level, monthly income and number of children in the family. To this end, a scale was...
This study aims to examine the effect of acceptance and commitment therapy-based psychoeducation program on university students’ meaning of life levels. Solomon Four Groups Model was used in the study. Within the context of this model, two experimental groups and two control groups, each including 9 members, were formed. Experimental groups received acceptance and commitment...
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ministry of National Education of Turkey suspended face-to-face education in all the K-12 schools and initiated distance education on the Educational Information Network (EBA). Distance education has become imperative although it has not been frequently used before the pandemic. The purpose of this study was to reveal the opinions of elementary...
In recent years, the concept of mathematical literacy has become the main subject of studies on mathematics education. Although there are many graduate theses on mathematics literacy in the current situation, no detailed analysis of them has been found. The purpose of this work, what needs the quantity and quality of the arguments made on mathematics literacy in Turkey meets the...
In this study, it is aimed to examine the lifelong learning tendencies of secondary school students and their attitudes towards English as a foreign language and whether there are differences in terms of gender, grade level and school type in terms of these two structures. The population of the study is composed of 744 students, 358 female and 386 male students selected from...
Multimodal writing refers to a process of writing with a combination of different modes such as visual, auditory, spatial, linguistic and textual. Research shows that multimodal writing has a positive effect on writing skills and learner motivation. Multimodal writing practices seem to be convenient for 21st-century language classrooms because learners are incredibly engaged in...
English Medium Instruction (EMI) is increasingly recognized as an intriguing phenomenon for researchers in not only Higher Education (HE) but also professional context. Although engineering is one of the most appealing field in this regard, little has been done to investigate the influence of EMI over graduates’ career. Two types of EMI, partial and full, applied in Turkey were...
Today, with the skills that cannot be imitated by others the person who gains competitive advantage in the organization contributes to the organizational goals. In this way, the good performance of the employees provides reputation, prestige, brand value, awareness, quality, effectiveness, efficiency and profitability. Therefore, it is important to integrate the knowledge...
The aim of this study is to review the international studies of multiple disabilities carried out and to give a point of view to new studies through evaluating the studies via an analysis of literature between 2010 and 2020 years. With that aim, scientific studies published over the last ten years in the world about children, their families, services and practices provided for...
The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable measurement tool measuring organizational sustainability. In this respect, firstly, an item pool was formed and subsequentlycontent validity rates, content validity criteria and content validity indices were calculated based on the experts. It was seen that the Organizational Sustainability Scale provided content validity...
The purpose of this research is to analyse the thematic and methodological trends of computational thinking skills-related graduate theses in Turkey. Within the scope of this purpose, a total of 38 works, including 30 Master's and 8 doctoral studies, published in the National Thesis Centre database of YÖK (Council of Higher Education), were analysed using a document analysis...
This study aims to determine school principals’ views on autonomy in school administration. Phenomenological design was employed in the study. Data were collected through interviews and analyzed using descriptive analysis. The participants were 14 high school principals. They were employed by maximum diversity sampling method. Data was collected through a semi-structured...
In science education, drawing tables and graphics is a part of science process skills, and preservice teachers are expected to have these skills. The aim of this study is to examine the science process skills and create a graphic levels of preservice science teachers based on a given problem scenario. In the research, the survey method has been used. The research has been...
The aim of this study is to determine the current status of science teachers regarding the application of guided research inquiry-based teaching approach at 5th grade level. In order to achieve this aim, descriptive case study is used in the research. The study is carried out with three science teachers working in three different secondary schools affiliated to Kars National...
In this study, social studies teachers working in Serdivan district of Sakarya province were asked about their opinions on virtual reality, 360-degree videos and virtual museum, it was ensured that they made a museum visit via the “360-Degree Video Based Virtual Museum Application (360DVVMA)”, and their views were examined in depth. A semi-structured interview form was used as...
The aim of this study was to determine the extrinsic motivation resources and decision making strategies of high school students. At the same time, the relationship between these two variables and demographic variables were examined. The study was carried out with 488 students. Motivation Resources Questionnaire and Adolescents Decision Making Strategies Scale were used in the...