- (16), 1999
A STUDY OF STRESS SOURCES, SYMPTOMS AND STRATEGIES OF PHYSICAL EDUCATORS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
Res. Ast. Sema ALAY & Assoc. Prof. Dr. Settar KOÇAKThis
study
was
designed
to
investigate
three
purposes
by
means
of
a
questionnaire.
The
fırst
purpose
was
to
examine
the
sources
and
the
symptoms
of
stress
among
selected
elementary
physical
education
teachers
in
Ankara.
The
second
purpose
was
to
identify
the
methods,
which
was
used
to
cope
with
stress.
The
third
purpose
of
this
study
was
to
explore
the
relationship
between
stress
and
performance
of
physical
education
teachers.
A
78-item
questionnaire
was
distributed
to
39
elementary
physical
educatorso
The
data
were
analysed
by
employing
a
statistical
package
for
social
sciences
(SPSS).
Results
about
sources
of
organizational
stress
revealed
that
lack
of
educational
equipment,
not
to
be
use
the
abilities
in
the
job
and
not
to
get
the
equivalent
of
work
were
mainly
stress
sources
of
physical
educatorso
The
results
of
this
study
also
indicated
that
fatigue
and
tension
were
main
stress
symptoms
of
physical
educatorso
Physical
education
teachers
reported
that
talking
with
a
friend
is
mostly
used
method
to
cope
with
stress
among
them.
Keywords: stress, physical education teachers
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Yrd. Doç. Dr. Mustafa Zülküf ALTANIn
this
study,
a
group
of
English
Preparati-
on
School
students'
perfonnance
on
a
listening
test,
which
attempts
to
discover
the
relationship
between
correctness
in
answering
and
accuracy
in
judging
the
correctness/
incorrectness
of
answers
they
had
chosen
was
investigated.
After
choosing
their
answers,
students
were
also
asked
to
indicate
on
a
5-point
scale
how
confident
they
were
of
the
correctness
of
the
answer.
In
order
to
find
out
the
nature
of
differences
among
leamers'
perfonnances,
some
analytic
procedures
from
the
Theory
of
Signal
Detection
were
app-
lied.
Although
some
of
the
test
scores
were
alike,
the
re-
sults
showed
that
there
could
be
considerable
differences
in
individual
perfonnances.
These
differences
were
de-
monstrated
and
discussed
in
tenns
of
self
monitoring
abi-
lity
and
confidence.
Keywords: EFL, confidence, signal detection
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Yrd. Doç. Dr. Ali AZAR & Doç. Dr. Salih ÇEPNİPhysics
teacher's
changes
in
teaching
activities
with
experience
many
discussion
and
research
on
teachers
evaIuation
and
development
have
been
going
on
in
the
word.
However,
the
teachers
changes
in
teaching
activities
with
experience
have
not
been
taken
attention
in
our
country
up
to
know.
In
this
meaning,
this
study
researched
physics
teachers
changes
professionally
and
specifically
the
activities
they
used
changes
with
experience.
Date
was
obtained
from
interviews
and
observation
schedules
developed
by
the
authors.
According
to
the
research
results,
it
was
found
that
there
were
a
significant
changes
and
development
among
teachers'
teaching
experience.
the
number
of
activities
they
used
and
timing
giving
on
the
activities.
In
order
to
increase
the
number
of
the
activities
some
suggestions
for
teachers
proposed.
Keywords: Teacher education, instruction activities, professional development.
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Ömer DELİALİOĞLU & Prof. Dr. Petek AŞKARThis
study
investigates
the
contribution
of
mathematical
skills
and
spatial
ability
to
achievement
in
secondary
school
physics.
Sixty-eight
lOth
grade
stu-
dents
from
a
high
school
in
Ankara
were
given
mathe-
matical
skill
test
(MST),
spatial
ability
tests
(SAT)
and
physics
achievement
test
(PAT).
Correlational
analysis
show
ed
that
the
correlation
coefficient
for
mathematical
skills
and
physics
achievement
was
0.46
(p<0.05),
and
for
spatial
ability
and
physics
achievement
was
0.45
(p<0.05).
To
see
the
combined
contribution
of
mathe-
maties
and
spatial
ability
to
physics
achievement,
mul-
tiple
regression
analysis
was
applied.
The
results
sho-
wed
that
the
contribution
of
the
two
predictor
variables
(mathematical
skills
and
spatial
ability)
accounted
for
almost
31
%
of
the
variance
in
the
physics
achievement
test
scores.
Keywords: Cognitive development, mathematical skills, spatial ability. spatial orientation, spatial visualization
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Assist. Prof. Dr. Hüsniye DEMİRCİOĞLU & Nilüfer NORMANThere
have
been
various
research
studies
assessing
factors
that
affect
science
achievement
of
students.
The
family
characteristics
are
the
most
powerful
predictor
of
school
performance.
The
higher
the
SES
of
family
is,
the
higher
his
or
her
academic
achievement
is.
In
literature
there
are
significant
differences
between
boys
and
girls
regarding
their
academic
achievement.
Some
other
studies
indicated
that
science
achievement
might
differ
from
one
school
environment
to
another.
In
this
research
the
effects
of
gender,
on
chemistry
attitudes
cumulative
secondary
school
grades
and
chemistry
achi
everment
effect
of
father
education
on
chemistry
achievement,
and
effect
of
school
type
on
chemistry
achievement
and
chemistry
attitude
were
investigated.
The
sample
of
this
study
consists
of
205
science
students
from
Ayrancı
Super
Lycee
and
Ayrancı
Curriculum
Laboratory
School
located
in
the
metropolitan
region
of
Ankara.
A
questionnaire
consisting
of
Chemistry
Attitude
Scale
and
questions
about
students'
family,
cumulative
school
grades,
chemistry
scores
was
completed
by
103
Ayrancı
Super
Lycee
and
102
Ayrancı
Curriculum
Laboratory
School
students.
Results
of
this
research
indicated
that
there
is
a
significant
gender
difference
of
students'
cumulative
secondary
school
grades
whereas
there
is
no
significant
effect
of
gender
on
chemistry
achievement
and
chemistry
attitudes.
On
the
other
hand,
school
type
has
a
significant
effect
on
chemistry
achievement
and
there
is
no
effect
of
fathers'
education
on
chemistry
achievement.
Keywords: Chemistry attitudes, chemistry achievement, lycee level, SES (socioeconomical status)
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Arş. Gör. Asuman DUATEPE & Şebnem ÇİLESİZThe
aim
of
this
study
is
to
develop
a
scale
to
measure
tlte
attitudes
of
fırst
year
university
students
to-
wards
mathematics.
A
44
item
draft
attitude
scale
witlt
dif-
ferent
dimension
was
applied
to
230
mathematics,
engine-
ering,
administration,
education
students
in
Middle
East
Technical
University.
According
to
findings
6
items
are
deleted
from
the
designed
scale.
Analyses
showed
the
sca-
le
consists
of
4
dimensions.
13
items
in
fırst
dimension
measure
like,
interest
and
enjoyment
to
mathematics,
9
items
in
second
dimension
measure
confidence
and
anxi-
ety.
Third
dimension
includes
8
items
and
measure
occu-
pational
and
daily
importance
of
matltematics
and
8
items
in
tlte
last
dimension
reflect
interest,
like
and
enjoyment.
According
to
ITEMAN
results,
item-scale
correlation
pro-
ved
validity.
Smallest
correlation
value
for
fırst
dimension
is
0.55,
for
tlte
second
dimension
is
0.62,
for
tlte
tltird
di-
mension
is
0.48
and
for
the
last
dimension
is
0.51.
To
reli-
ability
analysis
Cronbach
Alfa
coefficient
is
0.96.
Keywords: Attitude, attitude scale, mathematics attitude scale
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Dr. Ali ERYILMAZ & Hakan İLASLANhe
main
purpose
of
this
studyare;
to
investigate
the
characteristics
of
a
prospective
physics
teacher,
to
evaluate
attitudes
of
preservice
physics
teachers
toward
to
be
a
physics
teacher,
and
to
evaluate
preservice
physics
teachers'
qualifications.
In
order
to
achieve
the
objectives
of
the
study,
literature
have
been
searched
in
detail.
Then,
a
questionnaire
was
developed
to
measure
preservice
physics
teachers
qualifications
and
attimdes
of
preservice
physics
teachers
toward
to
be
a
physics
teacher.
The
Questionnaire
was
administered
to
50
preservice
physics
teachers
from
4
universities;
METU,
Gazi,
Hacettepe,
and
Marmara
universities.
The
collected
data
were
entered
to
the
computer
and
analyzed
by
MS-Excel
computer
program.
The
results
showed
that
preservice
physics
teachers
had
medium
attitudes
towards
to
be
a
physics
teacher,
knowledge
of
subject
matter,
knowledge
of
teaching
methods,
knowledge
of
measurements
and
evaluations,
knowledge
of
classroom
management,
sociology
and
psychology,
and
knowledge
of
school
administration.
Keywords: Characteristics of physics teachers, attitudes towards to be a physics teacher, ideal physics teacher
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Hülya ERYILMAZThe
purpose
of
this
study
is
to
evaluate
content-
based
competency
of
preservice
physics
teachers
at
Turkish
universities.
Therefore,
this
study
was
done
to
examine
adequacy
of
our
universities
in
preparing
physics
teachers
and
to
discuss
the
results
on
the
base
of
preparing
preservice
high
school
physics
teachers.
The
subjects
of
this
study
were
160
preservice
physics
teachers
(4th
year
students
in
the
Department
of
Science
Education)
from
seven
Turkish
universities.
Physics
Competency
Test
(PCT)
which
was
developed
by
researcher
was
used
in
collecting
data.
The
contentbased
competency
of
all
the
subjects
(160
students)
were
measured
by
using
Physics
Competency
Test.
Then
the
data
collected
were
analyzed
according
to
gender
and
the
physics
courses
taken
in
the
undergraduate
programs.
In
analyzing
these
data,
Minitab
and
special
computer
programs
developed
by
the
researcher
were
used.
More
specifically,
the
effectiveness
of
these
variables
was
determined
by
using
the
studenl's
t-test
and
correlation
analysis.
The
results
of
these
analyses
revealed
that
there
is
a
significant
difference
in
favor
of
male
between
the
achievements
of
the
male
and
female
preservice
physics
teachers
on
the
high
schoollevel
physics.
It
is
also
found
that
university
level
physics
courses
are
not
effective
enough
to
promote
knowledge
of
the
preservice
physics
teachers
at
the
high
school
level
physics.
Therefore,
it
is
recommended
that
contents
of
the
physics
courses
in
the
B.Sc.
programs
should
be
parallel
to
the
content
of
the
high
school
physics
courses.
Keywords: Preservice physics teachers, training of high school physics teachers, content-based competency
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Assist. Prof. Dr. Gül KESKİLThe
ever-growing
demand
in
Turkey
for
more
English
language
teachers
is
foreing
the
Ministry
of
Education
to
employ
almost
anyone
who
knows
English
as
teachers
of
that
language.
However,
even
the
graduates
of
the
English
Linguistics
Department
who
deal
thoroughly
with
the
language
do
not
receive
much
information
about
teaching
it.
Only
the
students
of
the
English
Language
Teaching
Departments'
graduates
are
equipped
with
the
knowledge
and
skills
required
to
enter
a
classroom
and
start
teaching
English
effieiently.
This
article
is
based
on
a
questionnaire
issued
to
the
fourth
year
students
of
the
above
mentioned
departments
of
Hacettepe
University.
if
Linguistics
students
who
have
studied
English
consciously
have
considerable
less
information
than
EL
T
students
on
how
to
teach
it,
it
should
not
be
difficult
to
guess
the
situation
with
others
who
have
been
trained
for
completely
different
jobs.
Knowing
a
language
does
not
guarantee
the
ability
to
teach
it.
Keywords: English language teaching; teachers of english; teaching efficiently
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