n this study use of internet by teachers and their opinions on the issue have been examined. A questionnaire was developed by the researcher in order to define to use of internet by teachers and their opinions on the issue. Only 9% of the teachers in the study have used internet. Internet was generally used for communication (such as e - mail, chat).

Keywords: internet, education, teacher education
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The purpose of this study was to conduct the reliability and validity of Time Management Questionnaire (TMQ) for Turkish university students. 35- item Time Management Questionnaire was administered to Middle East Technical University undergraduate university students who were taking elective courses opened to all departments and faculties. 9 elective courses were randomly selected from the elective courses opened at 1999-2000 spring season. The subjects of this study were 165 female and 196 male university students. Validity of the questionnaire was established by face validity and construct-related evidence. To analyze the factors associated with this instrurnent for Turkish population, items were subjected to principal component analysis and results showed that 35-item TMQ revealed 3 components. For the reliability of instrument internal consistency statistical method (cronbach alpha) was used. Cronbach alpha coefficient for TMQ was 0.87.

Keywords: Time Management Questionnaire, VaIidity and Reliability, University students.
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n this study, teacher's perceptions related lo the attributes of computers as an innovation were investigated. Twenty seven teachers from three primary schools were interviewed. it was observed that there are two different diffusion processes: Computer as an instructional 1001 and computer as a management tool and personal usage. As a management and personal usage, teachers found computers advantageous, compatible, triable and observable. However, as an instructional 1001, most teachers couldn't see its advantageous and have doubt in using it.

Keywords: Diffusuion process, perceived altributes of innovation, use of computers in schools
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The purpose of the present study was to investigate probability aehievement, attitudes toward probability and mathematies of senior prospeetive mathematies teaehers enrolled in Secondary Mathematies Teaeher Edueation Programs. In order to test the hypotheses, MannWhitney U Test or Pearson eorrelation were used. Af ter the analyses, while it was found that there was a statistically signifieant mean differenee on probability achievement in the favor of male prospeetive mathematies teaehcrs, it was found that there was a signifieant mean differenee on attitudes toward mathematies in the favor of girls. It was found no signifieant mean differenee on attitudes toward probability with respeet to gender. Therc were no signifieant relationships among girls' probability aehievement, attitudes toward probability and mathematics. Wbile it was found significant relationships between boys' probability aehievement and their attitudes toward probability, and between their attitudes toward probability and mathematics, it was found no significant relationship between boy s ' probability achievement and their attitudes toward mathematics. When the prospeetive teaehers beeome a teaeher, wrong impressions toward their stııdents are prcvented so that they can make positive contribution toward their female students' achievement in probability, and attitudes towards probability and mathematies.

Keywords: Probability, Mathematics, Achievement, Attitudes, Gender
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lıİs research is a cross-sectional research aiming to determine how four-six years old children pereieve themselves, their parents and teachers In this research, it is tried to determine whether the children's perception of themselves. 96 children attended this research. To determine the chil dren' s perceptions of themselves, their parents and teachers picture cards on which there are happy, sad, angry and suprised faeial expressions were used, developed by Cüceloğlu 1968, in addition to them "seared" facial expressions were used. Each child was studied individually. The children were asked to match the facial expressions with themselves, their mothers, fathers and teachers. This research was a 8 time repeated, 8 month lasted research. It was observed that children mostly prefered happy faeial expression to define themselves, their parents and teachers. It was also determined that there was a consisteney between the faeial expressions that they chose for themselves and for their teachers and parents. Gender played an important role for children when pereieving themselves and their parents, whereas, it has no impact on the pereeption of their teachers. As the children's age grew, an incrcase in the amount of positive "happy" pereeption was observed. The literacy of the parents only effected the child perception about themselves.

Keywords: Facial expressions, perception, feeling, preschool, teacher, parent
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The present studyaimed at investigating if there is a difference between left-handed and right-handed people in the pereeption time of numbers represented by geometric shapes. The findings of the study indicated that the left-handed pereeived the number of corners in regular polygon in a shorter time compared with the right-handed. This differenee reveals that the left-handed shows an aptitude in geometry.

Keywords: Left-handedness, Aptitude ın geometry, Pereeption time of numbers.
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As it is known, the basic aim of the translation courses is to contribute to the acquistion and the improvement of foreign languages. However, when the characteristics and needs of the leamers, who are supposed to reach this aim are taken into consideration, it is much better to keep the mother tongue-target language interrelations in mind rather than starting off from the mother tongue. Therefore, a contrastiye analysis, which focuses on the grammar of not only the target language but also the mother tongue proves necessary. in this study, it has been concluded that a translation course on subordinate elauses and which is based on a contrastiye grammar approach encourages cognitive learning, provides ease of leaming and prevents translation mistakes.

Keywords: translation courses, contrastive grammar approach, cognitive learning.
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The purpose of this study was to find out the possible relationship(s) among students' majors, class levels, epistemological beliefs, locus of control orientations and written instructional material comprehension monitoring types and levels. Subjects were 136 university students (68 girls and 68 boys). Subjects' mean age was 21. To obtain related data, "Locus of Contro] Sc ale" , "Epistemological Belief Scale" and "Comprehension Monitoring Scale" were administered. According to the results, significant differenees were found on the levels of comprehension monitoring in terms of locus of control variable, and on the types of comprehension monitoring in terms of epistemological beliefs and class levels variables.

Keywords: Comprehension monitoring, locus of control, epistemological beliefs.
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The purpose of this study was to develop a valid and reliable Likert type scale to measure the biology teachers' attitude toward laboratory lesson. The scale was applied to 117 biology teachers. in this scale, there are total21 items, ten ofwhich are negative and eleven of which are positive. The KMO (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin) value is 0.88 and the BarleU Test value is 3367.79, Cronbach-alpha for the who le scale was found to be 0.93. Cronbach-alpha values for the enjoyment dimension scale, confidence dimension scale and importance dimension scale were 0.90, 0.80 and 0.72. respectively.

Keywords: Biology teacher, Laboratory Lesson, Attitude scale, Laboratory lesson attitude scale.
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The aim of this study is to explain the intentions of behaviours of female and male students about saving energy at home. Differences among theİr "attitudes", Subjective Norms", Perceived Behavioral Control" and the Intention of Behaiour" about saving energy at home are examined in this research. The results of the present study show that the effects of the abovementioned factors on the intention of behaviour reveal statistically significant differences among female and male students.

Keywords: Saving energy. useful behaviours about the environment, differences between sexes, the theory of planned behaviour .
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The coursebook is a teaching material in which general and specific goals are presented in a concrete way, the material is seleeted according to these goals; a teaching material which determines the in-class teaching phase, the method, the steps of the lesson, the style of the study, the mutual influence of the teacher-Iearner; that is, it organizes the seleetion and use of the teaching materials. It aids the determination and preparation of the in-class activities; controls and evaIuates whether the goals are reachd. in this study, the criteria which the foreign language teac<1ersworking in primary and secondary schools in Turkey will use when seleeting these such effective coursebooks for the formation, determination and organization of the teaching phase have been touched. The criteria for the selection of foreign language coursebooks have been evaIuated according to the framework of both the teaching plan and their suitability to the learner, and teaching-Ieanİng environment, and some suggestions have been offered, as welL.

Keywords: school, foreign language lesson, coursebook/textbook.
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This study was to determine the effect of project- based learning approach on the academic achievement and academic self-concept and study time of 7th grade students in elementary school science courses. The research was carried out on two groups; the experimental group and control group. in control group, textbook and teacher-centered based on learning approach, which is called as traditional method was used. On the other hand, the experimental group applied a science education based on project-based learning. Groups were similiar in terms of characteristics of students and teachers. Af ter experimental process, according to academic achievement and academic self-concept and study time, there is a significant difference in favour of experimental group.

Keywords: Projeet-based seienee edueation, aeademie aehievement, academie self-eoneept, study time.
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in this work, we investigated whether there is a significant difference in perception time of the numbers of the decimal number and the largest of them when they are represented in graphical form and tabular form. The computer experiments performed on two groups of students in different ages. The experiment results show that perception time of the numbers of the decimal numbers and their largest values are shorter at representation of them in graphical form. As a result, it is important to represent the decimal numbers in the graphical form.

Keywords: erceplion Time, Decimal Numbers, Graphical Form
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Learning in tlıe stations is one of the open education methods and of tlıe educational activities. This me"h;Xı botlı increases the student interest and makes active tlıe courses. In this learning process tlıe content of courseı remains the same but the personal motivation to leam is inereased. General1y learning in tlıe stations makes easier the complex topics and at tlıe same time it influences positİvely tlıe leamer psychology. The learner who makes practİces could reach structural and conceptual tlıinking. Furthermore, this metlıod is being admired by tlıe leamers in terms of content and technique. With the senior students attending to Hacettepe University Educatİon Faculty, Chemistry Education Branch leaming in tlıe stations is used conceming the formulas writing and showing the chemical reactİons in equations. II Learning statİons were established and some interestİng support materials were employed. There were studies related to teach tlıe names of elemenL~, their symbols, values, writİng the formulas of compounds, the structure of the compounds

Keywords: Chemistry Education, Learnİng İn Stations. Learning Wheel.
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This study investigated Turkish preservice mathematics teachers' attitudes towards mathematics and their beliefs abaut teaching mathematics and their teacher preparation programs with the aİrn of helping preservice teacher educators understand the perceptions of future teachers and structure of teacher preparation program better. in this study, 49 mathematics educatian preservice teachers in two universities in Turkey responded to the questionnaire that consists of 35 questions. Responses to the questionnaire were analyzed by using SPSS and findings included detailed attitudes and beliefs of preservice teachers and a sunımary of the results from the original study which emphasizes the differences in attitudes and beliefs of preservice teachers from three countries, namely Korea, Turkeyand the US

Keywords: Attitudes, Preservice mathematics teachers, Teacher preparationprograms
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n educational and instructional processes, visual sense has great effect on leaming. Therefore, addition to the examination of the geographical phenemenons in the field, use of different educational materials is a must for the effective geography education. in this study, it is investigated that what kind of educational materials have been used in geography courses in high schools. Usage frequency of these materials in the courses are also questioned. According to the results, phsical maps are used by the half of the participants. However, other materials are not used sufficiently. Using the technology, devices and materials provides effective geography education. In addition to this, these materials should be kept in the accesable area, for the students. The best way to do this is establishing separate geography classes of the schools.

Keywords: Geography teacrnng, edueationaltechnology, device, materia
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Mathematics is a study of patterns and relationsbips [I]. Mathematics is regarded as an unlovable and a very hard subject to be understood by a lot of people. As Mathematics is being a way of thinking the aim of mathematics teachers shouldn't be to 1000 knowledge to the students but to contribute to intellect developing. Besides they should strive to direct the students to develop positive manners for mathematics. The purpose of this paper is to contribute the struggle of .;aining "the ability of positive manner for mathematics" anr of "the developing aesthetic feeling." which is considered as a one of the general target of mathematics. in this article we tried to fınd out how a teaching method should be foIlowed so as to explore aesthetic way of mathematics.

Keywords: esthetics of mathematics,mathematics teaching.
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One of the general aims of the secondary school physics courses is to ensure that students learn the basic concepts and expressions which are necessary to understand wide application areas of physics in their learning process. However, there is a need for a curriculum which includes these concepts and expressions and their relations among them and textbooks and materials which supports this kind of curriculum for a successfuL. In this study, senior high school Physics textbook by Ministry of Education which is used in most of the secondary schools in Turkey is analyzed for its scientific content and comprehensibility. According to the evidenee, there are deficiencies in its scientific content and wrong relations among concepts and associations in this textbook. Moreover, it is observed that expressions are insufficient in expressing the topics

Keywords: Turkish textbooks, Quantuın Physics course, Modem Physics
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In this artiele, same aspects of learning and teaching principles that contribute to the leaming of children have been proposed. What are the educational needs of children? How do the in note properties that come through birth and the qualities of the environmental offer his affect learning?

Keywords: preschool, learning, teaching, teacher . class management
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Since environmental education has an interdisciplinary nature, it should be provided to the students at all educational levels. Knowledge of environmental facts, their contribution to environmental problems and also of the steps to be followed to save the nature requires the studies regarding the current knowledge of the students on the environment. in order to detennine the knowledge levels of the students three different questionnaires were administered to three different student groups at different time periods. During the 1998-99 school year 240 students attending to Hacettepe University, Education Faculty, Chemistry Education Branch; during the 2000-2001 school year 228 middle school students and during the same school year 153 students attending to Hacettepe University Education Faculty Chemistry Education Branch. Af ter the evaluation, the obtained results indicated that the eııvironmentaJ education is not sufficient, those students who took chemistry course at the secondary level have more knowledge and they have been informed abaııt environmental issııes from the media.

Keywords: Environmental Education, Environmental Concepts, Environmental Problems
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Project based learning is alearning approach that considers project as a part of infrastnıcture. Project means thinking, imajing and fictioning. if project based learning based on thinking, imajing and fictioning, it underlines to train creative individuals who take responsibilities of theirown learning. Project based learning is very important for qualities of the individuals' behaviours and it requires different learning process. This study will be realized in order to explain characteristics of this process

Keywords: Project Based Learning, The Project Approach, İnternetProjects
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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of the cooperatiye problem solving method (CPSM) and the individualistic problem solving method (IPSM) on seventh grade students' mathematical problem solving performance (MPSP). in this quasiexperimentalresearch study, seventh grade "percents unit" was covered. After analyzing the data by using the multivariate analysis of covariance it was found thatCPSM and IPSM groups had statistically significantly greater mean scores than the traditional method (TM) group with respect to MPSP. However, there was no significant mean difference between CPSM and IPSM groups with respect to MPSP

Keywords: Mathematical problem solving performance, cooperative problem solving method, individualİstic problem solving method, percent units
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