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REFEREES/REVIEWERS
CONCEPT IMAGES EVOKED BY MULTIPLE REPRESENTATIONS OF FUNCTIONS
HATİCE AKKOÇThis
study
investigates
students'
concept
images
evoked
from
multiple
representations
offunctions
such
as
set
correspondence
diagrams,
sets
of
ordered
pairs,
graphs
and
algebraic
expressions.
The
concept
images
evoked
from
multiple
representations
are
examined
in
terms
of
the
roles
representations
play;
as
prototypes
and
exemplars.
The
sample
of
the
study
is
9
students
in
grade
11.
These
9
students
were
selected
among
114
grade
11
students
on
the
basis
ofthe
results
from
the
ques-
tionnaires
using
theoretical
sampling.
This
study
is
mainly
qualitative
and
the
main
data
is
obtained
from
the
semi-structured
interviews
with
the
9
students.
In
these
interviews,
students
were
asked
to
decide
whether
the
given
representations
are
func-
tions
or
not.
The
analysis
of
the
interview
protocols
indicated
that
the
set
correspondence
diagram
played
the
role
of
a
prototy-
pe
and
evoked
concept
images
which
included
the
defıning
properties
of
function.
On
the
other
hand,
graphical
and
algebraic
representations
evoked
exemplar-based
concept
images
rather
than
the
defınition
Keywords: Function concept, concept image, multiple representations, prototype, exemplar.
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Doç. Dr. Yasemin AKMAN, Yrd. Doç. Dr. Hülya KELECİOĞLU & Yrd. Doç. Dr. Filiz BİLGEThe
purpose
of
this
study
was
to
investigate
academicians'
perceptions
of
the
factors
lead
to
an
effect
in
the
ir
job
satisfaction..
Participants
were
488
faculty
members
from
24
universities
who
responded
to
the
surveys
which
were
deli-
vered
to
them
via
electronic
maiL.
Along
with
cakulation
of
descriptive
statistics,
chi
square
was
used
to
compare
academici-
ans'
means
according
to
gender,
seniority,
and
position.
According
to
the
results,
the
respondents
rated
the
majority
of
items
as
4
or
5,
which
correspond
to
"important"
and
"very
important"
respectively.
Some
significant
differences
were
found
in
per-
ception
of
the
factors
lead
to
an
effect
in
their
job
satisfaction
according
to
academicians'
gender,
seniority
and
academic
sta-
tus.
The
results
and
their
implications
are
discussed
Keywords: academician, higher education, job, seniority, academic status, gender, job satisfaction
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Yrd. Doç. Dr. Hülya ALTINOK & Prof. Dr. Kamile ÜN AÇIKGÖZThe
purpose
of
this
research
is
to
study
effects
of
cooperative
and
individual
concept
mapping
and
traditional
teaching
methods
on
students'
attitudes
toward
science.
Pretest-posttest
experimental
design
with
control
group
was
utilized.
One
of
the
experimental
group
s
was
taught
by
cooperative
concept
mapping,
and
the
other
by
individual
concept
mapping.
Traditional
method
was
implemented
in
control
group.
Fifth
graders
(52
female,
70
male)
going
to
an
elementary
school
in
Aegean
district
participated
in
this
research.
"Sound
and
Light"
unit
was
covered
during
35
hour
treatment.
Experimental
gro-
ups
were
provided
with
training
about
concept
mapping
strategy
and
cooperation
skills.
Data
of
the
research
was
collected
by
Scale
for
Attitudes
Towards
Science
Course.
Findings
have
discemed
that
cooperative
concept
mapping
is
more
effective
on
students'
attitudes
toward
science
than
individual
concept
mapping.
Individual
concept
mapping
and
traditional
method
gro-
ups'
attitude
scores
do
not
differ
significantly.
Keywords: cooperative leaming, concept mapping, attitude
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Öğr: Gör. Duygu ANIL & Arş. Gör. Neşe GÜLERn
this
study,
it
was
studied
what
"required
characteristics
of
a
skilled
teacher"
should
be
by
scaling
study
with
pairwise
comparison
to
determined.
This
research
was
performed
on
82
students
who
studied
at
third
and
fourth
grade
of
sci-
en
ce
education
and
pre-school
education
in
Elementary
Education
Department
in
Hacettepe
University
at
2004-2005
fall
se-
mester.
According
to
the
results
of
scaling
study
by
pair-wise
comparison,
when
"required
characteristics
of
a
skilled
teacher"
was
sorted
from
the
most
desired
characteristic
to
the
least
desired
characteristic
by
university
students,
it
was
determined
that
the
most
desired
characteristic
was
"Iove
of
job"
This
characteristic
was
followed
by
being
able
to
transfer
knowledge,
being
able
to
comminicate
effectively,
being
open-minded
to
technologyand
innovation,
having
knowledge
on
hislher
own
field,
be-
ing
democrat,
being
tolerant
of
criticism,
respectively.
And
the
least
desired
characteristic
was
determined
as
being
witty.
Keywords: pair-wise comparison method, scaling
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Yrd. Doç. Dr. Esin ATAV, Prof. Dr. Buket AKKOYUNLU & Prof. Dr. Necdet SAGLAMIn
this
study
prospective
teachers'
internet
access
facilities
and
their
internet
usage
were
examined.
Study
group
consisted
259
first
and
fourth
grade
prospective
teachers
from
Hacettepe
University,
at
Department
of
Science
and
Mathematics
for
Secondary
Education
Department.
An
information
form
was
developed
by
the
researcheres
in
order
to
collect
data.
86,9%
of
the
prospective
teachers
in
the
study
have
used
internet,
and
41,3%
of
the
candidates
have
been
accessed
the
internet
from
internet
cafe.
Internet
was
used
for
multi-purposes
such
as
accessing
information,
their
homework
or
projeets
and
communication
(such
as
e
-
mail,
chat.
Keywords: internet, education, teacher education
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Doç. Dr. Ali AZAR, Öğr. Gör. Arzu İrfan PRESLEY & Ömer BALKAYAThe
purpose
of
this
study
was
to
investigate
the
effects
of
physics
teaching
based
on
multiple
intelligence
the-
ory
on
9th
graders'
achievement,
attitude,
retention
and
science
process
skills.
This
study
was
conducted
with
50
students
from
Kdz.
Ereğli
Anatolian
High
School
in
2003-2004
fall
semesters.
25
of
the
students
were
enrolled
in
control
group
whe-
reas
25
of
them
were
enrolled
in
experimental
group.
Multiple
Choice
Physics
Achievement
Test
and
Science
Process
Skill
Test
were
applied
as
pretests
for
both
of
the
groups.
Two
weeks
later,
in
addition
to
the
tests
given
before
Attitude
Test
was
given
to
aıı
of
the
students
enroııed
in
the
study.
The
data
were
analyzed
by
using
MANCOV
A
analysis.
As
a
result,
the
suc-
cess,
cognitive
process
skills
and
retention
level
of
students
in
experimental
group
were
found
to
be
more
successful
than
the
ones
in
control
group.
Keywords: multiple ıntelligence theory, physics teaching, science teaching.
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Yrd. Doç. Dr. Nursen AZİZOGLU & Yrd. Doç. Dr. Esen UZUNTİRYAKİChemistry
laboratory
which
is
the
fundamental
part
of
leaming
chemistry
is
the
place
where
conceptual
unders-
tanding,
laboratory
skills,
and
thinking
scientifically
are
developed.
While
positive
attitudes
towards
laboratory
may
increase
the
laboratory
performance,
anxiety
may
decrease
it.
Therefore,
determining
the
students'
chemistry
laboratory
anxieties
be-
comes
important.
The
purpose
of
this
study
is
to
adapt
chemistry
laboratory
anxiety
scale
developed
by
Bowen
(1999)
into
Turkish
and
to
find
the
dimensions
of
the
scale.
The
sc
ale
is
administered
to
5
16
undergraduate
students
taking
chemistry
la-
boratory.
Obtained
data
were
analyzed
and
four
dimensions
were
extracted
as
a
result
of
factor
analysis.
Keywords: Chemistry laboratory, anxiety scale, chemistry education.
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Yrd. Doç. Dr. Necati CEMALOĞLUThe
aim
of
this
study
is
to
analyse
the
primary
school
teachers'
perception
of
organizational
health
in
terms
of
different
variables.
The
sampling
of
the
study
is
comprised
of
385
primary
school
teachers
who
attended
a
course
in
Aksaray
and
Esenköy
in-service
training
centers.
The
Organizational
Health
Inventory
(OHI-S),
which
was
developed
by
Hayand
Miskel,
was
used
in
the
research.
The
Organizational
Health
Inventory
(OHI-S)
scale
was
adapted
to
Turkish
by
the
author
and
validity
and
reliability
studies
were
conducted.
Fre.:ıuency,
arithmetic
mean,
t-test
and
variance
analysis
were
calculated
in
the
study.
The
research
results
were
tested
at
p<.05
leve!.
The
research
revealed
that
primary
school
teachers
state
that
Ini-
tiating
Structure
(IS)
dimension
is
much
frequently
realized,
while
Academic
Emphasis
(AB)
subdimension
is
less
realized.
When
the
relationship
between
the
subdimensions
of
the
organizational
health
are
analysed,
a
relationship
from
the
middIe
!e-
vel
to
the
upper
is
observed.
The
strongest
relationship
is
observed
between
the
subdimensions
of
initiating
structure
(IS)
and
consideration
(C).
There
was
a
significant
relationship
between
gender
and
Institutional
Integrity
(ll),
marital
status
and
mo-
rale,
age
and
Initiating
Structure
(IS)
and
Academic
Emphasis
(AB),
branch
and
Resource
Support
(RS)
and
Academic
Emp-
hasis
(AE.
Keywords: Organizational health, school, teacher, different variables
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Arş. Gör. Serap ÇALIŞKAN, Öğr. Gör. Gamze Sezgin SELÇUK & Prof. Dr. Mustafa EROLProblem
solving
is
one
of
the
most
important
stages
of
learning
process.
One
of
the
best
ways
of
problem
sol-
ving
is
to
apply
problem
solving
strategies
in
an
effectiye
way.
To
serve
this
aim
aresearch
has
been
conducted
on
what
strategy
is
being
employed,
what
type
of
behaviors
exist
and
how
those
behaviors
vary
in
terms
of
elass
level
of
the
students.
Two
teacher
candidates
have
been
selected
from
each
grade
level,
namely
first,
second,
third,
fourth
and
fifth
from
Physics
Education
Department
of
Buca
Education
Faculty,
Dokuz
Eylül
University.
The
data
has
been
collected
by
means
of
const-
ructive
interview
method.
Evaluation
of
the
data
elearly
indicates
that
first,
second,
third
and
fourtb
grade
teacher
candidates
develop
basic
approach
to
the
problem
solving
however,
fifth
grade
teacher
candidates
apply
a
much
deeper
approach.
Keywords: problem solving, problem solving strategies, physics education.
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Ümit ÇELEN & Yrd. Doç. Dr. Nükhet ÇIKRIKÇI DEMİRTAŞLIThis
study
is
a
quasi-experimental
research
whieh
aims
to
find
out
if
there
is
a
statistieaııy
signifieant
difference
on
the
test
and
item
statisties
when
a
multiple
choiee
mathematies
achievement
test
applied
with
or
without
a
test
instruction
that
indicate
chance
attenuation
formula
will
be
used.
The
research
has
been
carried
on
452
first
year
students
of
14
vocati-
onal
health
schools.
The
measurement
instrnment
developed
by
the
researcher
whieh
is
constitute
40
five-choice
questions
in
a
mathematies
achievement
test
for
first
year
classes
of
high
schooL.
Findings
point
out
that
giving
formula
scoring
instructi-
on
does
not
influence
mean
test
scores,
test
validity
and
item
difficulty
indiees
but
increases
the
KR-20
internal
consistency
reliability
and
item
discrimination
values.
Findings
were
discussed
in
context
of
related
literature.
Keywords: chance success, guessing, correction formula for guessing.
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Arş. Gör. Işıl ÇILDIR & Doç. Dr. Ahmet İlhan ŞENThis
research
has
been
done
to
identify
high
school
students'
misconceptions
on
"Electric
Current"
by
the
help
of
concept
maps.
The
research
has
been
carried
out
with
the
contribution
of
244
second
year
high
school
students
(119
fema-
le
_
125
male)
from
8
different
school
s
in
Ankara
during
2003-2004
spring
semester.
Lists
of
high
school
s
in
Ankara
for
each
district
ware
formed.
The
pilot
study
of
the
research
was
made
in
a
class
of
30
students.
Initially,
to
inform
the
students
on
concept
maps,
a
class
hour
activity
on
concept
maps
has
been
done.
After
they
have
been
given
26
concepts
about
"Electric
Current"
and
they
have
been
asked
to
form
concept
maps.
In
the
research,
the
concept
maps
that
students
have
done
have
be-
en
investigated
descriptive
statistics,
and
misconceptions
have
been
determincd.
In
addition,
to
support
the
result
of
the
rese-
arch,
semi
structured
student
interviews
have
been
done
with
20%
of
each
class.
At
the
end
of
the
research,
it
has
be
en
clari-
fied
that
about
"Electric
Current",
students
have
misconceptions
of
concepts
like
current,
resistance,
potential
differencc,
elect-
ricity,
generator/emk
source
and
electric
energy.
Keywords: Electric current, concept map, misconception, physics education, high school students
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Yrd. Doç. Dr. Ahmet ÇOBAN, Yrd. Doç. Dr. Nesimi ULUDAĞ & Doç. Dr. Ayhan YILMAZChemistry
is
a
veey
important
course
for
Student
Selection
Examination
(aSS)
and
in
High
School
Curricu-
lums.
Aim
of
the
study
is
to
evaluate
chemistry
course
in
respect
of
Student
Selection
Examination
Questions
and
High
Scho-
ol
Curriculums.
To
determine
the
significance
of
Chemistey
Course
in
High
School
Programs;
to
analyze
the
content
in
view
of
subjects
in
the
classroom
level,
aims
and
behaviours.
Moreover,
it
is
aimed
to
determine
the
distribution
of
2001-2005
ass
Questions
to
the
years
and
the
subjects.
The
present
study
is
a
survey
to
claim
the
relationships
between
ass
Questions
and
The
content
of
Chemistey
Course
in
High
School
Programs.
First,
the
significance
of
Chemistey
Course
in
High
School
Prog-
rams
was
determined,
and
all
the
subjects
were
analyzed
in
categorical
way
in
respect
of
aims
and
behaviours.
Then,
the
den-
sity
and
the
distribution
of
ass
Questions
belonging
to
2001-2005
years
were
determined;
a
categorical
analysis
on
the
sub-
jects
was
realized.
It
is,
at
the
end
of
present
study,
observed
that
there
are
some
problems
on
"Content
Validity"
of
ass
and
Curriculum
of
Chemistey
Course
in
High
School.
Keywords: Chemistry Course, High School Curriculum, Student Selection Examination.
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Arş. Gör. Hülya DEMİRCİOĞLU, Yrd. Doç. Dr. Gökhan DEMİRCİOĞLU & Prof. Dr. Alipaşa AYASRecently,
most
educators
and
researchers
have
emphasized
students'
willingness
toward
leaming
more
than
structure
of
knowledge.
For
this
reason,
it
should
be
taken
into
consideration
students'
willingness
toward
when
leaming
en-
vironment
was
arranged.
The
easiest
way
to
make
students
willing
is
to
relate
the
topies
to
everyday
life.
The
aim
of
storyli-
nes
whieh
arouse
interest
in
chemistry
education
is
to
get
in
touch
with
daily
life,
to
embed
science
content
in
a
social
and
technological
context
and
to
link
it
wİth
the
everyday
world,
to
help
to
promote
students'
enthusiasm
and
motivation
for
sci-
ence
and
to
train
scientifically
literacy.
This
approach
is
provided
students'
active
panicipation
in
order
to
help
to
leam
me-
aningful
and
develop
their
science
concepts.
These
materials
also
contribute
to
take
more
responsibility
on
their
own
leaming
of
the
students.
In
this
anide,
it
was
given
infonnation
about
the
usage
of
stories
in
the
chernistry
education,
the
objectives
of
the
teaching
program
based
on
the
storylines,
the
usage
of
explanatory
stories
and
chemical
storylines
in
leaming
environment.
In
the
light
of
the
data
collected,
it
could
be
said
that
the
chemical
storylines
increase
students'
willingness
forward
leaming
and
help
meaningful
leaming.
Keywords: storylines, chemistry teaching, teaching program
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Dr. Türkan DOĞANThe
aim
of
the
study
is
to
determine
those
variables
which
have
an
impact
on
the
wellness
among
college
students.
The
study
sample
consists
of
936
(623
female,
313
male)
students
from
Baskent
Universityand
Hacettepe
University.
The
Wellness
Evaluation
of
Lifestyle
Scale
developed
by
Myers,
Sweeney
ve
Witmer
(2000),
the
Perceived
Social
Suppon
Scale
developed
by
Yıldınm
(1997),
and
Personal
Information
Form
were
used
for
data
collection.
The
Multi-Factorial
Analysis
ofYariance
(ANOYA)
was
used
in
the
analysis
of
the
data.
The
sources
ofthe
differences
were
funher
analyzed
with
the
Tukey
Test.
The
results
of
the
study
indicated
statistically
significant
differences
the
wellness
of
university
students
according
to
frequency
of
physical
exereise,
opinions
about
future,
level
of
family
suppon
and
level
of
suppon
from
friends.
There
were
no
statistically
significant
differences
the
wellness
of
university
students
according
to
smoking
status,
and
the
frequency
of
alcoho]
consumption.
Keywords: WeIlness, Health, University Students
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Dr. Cem GERÇEK, Öğr. Gör. Pınar KÖSEOĞLU, Yrd. Doç. Dr. Miraç YILMAZ & Prof. Dr. Haluk SORANThis
study
aims
at
determining
the
computer-related
atıitudes
of
teacher
candidates
and
at
analysing
the
effects
of
such
variables
as.
The
study
employs
descriptive
method.
The
data
were
gathered
by
survey
questionnaire
and
Computer
Attitude
Scale
(Berbero~lu&Çalıkoğlu,
1991).
The
number
of
the
paticipants
is
191.
For
variables,
mean
and
the
standart
de-
viation
were
calculated.
ANOV
A
and
t
test
were
employed
to
identify
the
differences
among
the
variables.
it
is
found
that
computer
attitudes
of
the
participants
are
at
the
middle
level
(X=120.63)
and
variables
do
not
have
any
significant
effect
on
the
computer
attitude.
Keywords: Attitude, teacher candidate, use of computer.
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Yrd. Doç. Dr. Cem GÜZELLER & Yrd. Doç. Dr. Hülya KELECİOĞLUThe
scope
of
this
study
was
to
evaluate
classificatİon
validity
based
on
the
the
sub
test
raw
scores
(Secondary
Education
Student
Selection
&
Placement
Exam)
(OKÖSYS),
The
discrimination
analysis
model
was
used.
The
study
was
per-
fonned
on
967
candidates
who
participated
in
OKÖSYS,
and
candidates
who
passed
the
examination
and
enrolled
in
public
and
private
science
high
school
and,
Anatolian
High
School
s
of
Antalya,
Isparta
and
Burdur.
The
results
demonstrated
that
science
sub
test
was
the
most
efficent
variable
for
discrimination
function,
mathematics
sub
test
was
the
second
most
effici-
ent
variable.
Discrimination
function
were
found
to
be
efficient
in
separation
of
public
science
high
school
s
from
private
sci-
ence
and
Anatolian
high
schools,
whereas
it
was
not
funcional
to
discriminate
between
private
science
and
AnatoHan
high
schools.
Correct
clasification
ratios
were
96%
for
public
science
high
schools;
36,7%
for
private
high
schools,
and
52,7%
for
Anatolian
high
schools.
Keywords: Secondary Education Student Selection & Placement Exam, validity, classification validity, discriminant analysis
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Yrd. Doç. Dr. T. Fikret KARAHAN, Yrd. Doç. Dr. Mehmet E. SARDOĞAN, Arş. Gör. Eyüp ÖZKAMALI & Arş. Gör. Abdullah N. DİCLEThe
study
examined
relationships
among
democratic
attitude
levels,
neurotic
symptoms,
self
-
actualization
le-
vel
and
self
-
efficacy
in
social
relations
in
students
of
Faculty
of
Education.
Also
this
study
examined
relationships
among
gender.
closs,
participate
to
socio
-
eultural
activities
and
Democratic
Attitude
Scale.
723
university
students
participated
in
this
study.
The
data
were
obtained
by
"Democratic
Attitudc
Scale"which
was
developed
by
Gözütok
(1995)
and
"Hacettepe
Personality
Inventory"
which
was
developed
by
Özgüven
(1992).
The
data
were
analyzed
by
ANOV
A,
t
-
test
and
LSD
tech-
niques.
The
results
were
as
follow:
Students
with
low
democratic
attitude
level
have
high
scores
on
"Neurotic
Tendeney
Subsca-
ies"
than
other
students.
Neurotic
tendency
was
diminish
when
the
democratic
attitude
level
was
rising.
Students
with
low
de-
mocratic
attitude
level
have
low
scores
on
"self
-
actualization
subscales"
than
other
students
when
the
democratic
attitude
le-
vel
Vas
rising
scores
on
the
"self
-
actualization
levels
subscales"
was
also
higher.
Students
with
low
democratic
attitude
le-
ve]
have
low
scores
on
"social
relations
subscales"
than
other
students
when
the
democratic
attitude
level
was
rising
"social
relations
subscales"
scores
were
also
rising.
Gender
differences
were
not
found
in
tenns
of
democratic
attitude
level.
Democ-
ratic
attitude
level
of
students
who
participate
in
any
socio
-
cultural
activities
were
higher
than
other
students
who
were
ne-
ver
participate
to
any
socio
-
cultural
activities.
The
fourth
year
students'
democratic
attitude
level
were
higher
than
the
first
year
students'
democratic
attitude
level.
Keywords: Democratic Attitude, Neurotic Tendency, Self - Actualization, Social Relations, Prospective - Teacher
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Öğr. Gör. Pınar KÖSEOĞLU & Prof. Dr. Haluk SORANThe
aim
of
this
study
is
to
determine
attitudes
of
biology
teachers
towards
material
use
in
class
activities.
The
reasearch
is
planned
as
a
survey.
The
study
group
of
research
consists
of
369
biology
teachers
chosen
from
different
areas
of
Turkeyamong
9361
biology
teachers
by
stratified
sampling
method
working
under
Ministry
of
National
Education
in
2002-
2003
education
year.
For
data
collection,
a
pre-trial
scale
consisting
of
30
items
regarding
the
use
of
materla1
had
been
appli-
ed
on
99
bi
ology
teachers
working
in
Ankara.
Following
the
Faktor
ana1ysis
,
items
wbose
agent
weight
in
the
[ırst
dimen-
sion
are
at
least
0.3
were
chosen
and
a
fina1
attitude
sca1e
with
28
items
was
developed.
The
reliability
of
the
sca1e
was
esti-
mated
by
using
Cronbach
a
and
the
reliability
coefficient
was
determined
as
0.86.
Besides,
a
questionneire
was
developed
and
applied
in
order
to
determine
whether
the
attitudes
of
teachers
towards
materia1
use
change
according
to
different
charac-
teristies
of
teachers.
Keywords: teacher attitute, instructional tool, biology teaching
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İsmail ÖNDER & Prof. Dr. Ömer GEBANThe
present
studyaimed
to
investigate
the
effect
of
conceptual
change
texts
oriented
instruction
on
IOth
grade
students'
understanding
of
solubility
equilibrium
concept.
The
misconceptions
related
to
solubility
equilibrium
concept
were
obtained
through
interviews
with
high
school
chemistry
teachers
and
related
literature.
The
data
were
obtained
from
58
stu-
dents
participated
in
instruction
based
on
conceptual
change
approach
and
67
students
participated
in
instruction
based
on
tra-
ditional
methods.
The
results
of
the
study
showed
that
instruction
based
on
conceptual
change
approach
where
conceptual
change
texts
were
used,
was
better
than
the
instruction
based
on
traditional
methods
on
remediation
of
misconceptions
and
promoting
students'
understanding
of
solubility
equilibrium
concept.
Keywords: conceptual change approach, conceptual change texts, solubility equilibrium.
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Dr. Ebru ÖZTÜRK AKARAs
a
part
of
the
research
conducted
to
identify
the
inservice
training
needs
and
experiences
ofbiology
teachers
working
across
the
country,
the
role
of
working
conditions
provided
in
the
school
s
and
the
role
of
school
principals
in
the
te-
achers'
professional
development
was
investigated
in
this
study.
Supported
by
the
Ministry
of
National
Education
Educational
Research
and
Development
Directorate,
differences
between
professional
development
needs
and
experiences
of
teachers
wor-
king
in
privatelfoundation,
public
and
Anatolian
high
school
s
were
also
explored
in
this
study.
In
order
to
answer
the
research
questions
guiding
the
study
stratified
random
and
cluster
random
sampling
strategies
were
followed
and
a
survey
questionna-
ire
was
applied
to
338
biology
teachers
working
in
public,
Anatolian
and
privatelfoundation
schools
of
17
cities
in
seven
ge-
ographical
regions.
Results
revealed
differences
between
participant
teacbers'
professional
development
needs
and
experien-
ces.
Researcher
suggests
a
new
constitution
to
meet
the
professional
development
needs
of
teachers
working
in
different
types
of
schools.
Keywords: professional development, public school, Anatolian high school, privatelfoundation school
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Res. Ast. Aybüke PABUÇCU & Prof. Dr. Ömer GEBANThe
purpose
of
this
study
was
to
explore
the
effects
of
conceptual
change
texts
oriented
instruction
on
9th
grade
students'
understanding
of
chemical
bonding
concepts.
in
this
study,
the
main
aim
of
the
preparation
of
conceptual
change
texts
was
to
activate
students'
prior
knowledge
and
misconceptions
and
to
help
them
to
understand
the
chemical
bonding
concepts
through
the
use
of
explanations.
analogies
and
examples.
Analogies
were
used
in
the
conceptual
change
texts
to
deal
with
students'
misconceptions
more
effectively.
The
results
revealed
that
conceptual
change
texts
oriented
instruction
produeed
a
positive
effect
on
students
understanding
of
scientifıc
conceptions
related
to
ehemical
bonding
and
elimination
of
misconeeptions.
The
mean
scores
ofboth
groups
showed
that
students
in
the
experimental
group
performed
betIer
with
respeet
to
ehemical
bonding
eoncepts.
Keywords: misconception, conceptual change, conceptual ehange text, analogy, chemical bonding.
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Yrd. Doç. Dr. Süleyman Sadi SEFEROĞLU & Bil. Uzm. Cenk AKBIYIKStudents
of
information
society
should
be
taught
to
be
active
panicipant
in
their
own
leaming
instead
of
being
trained
as
passive
processors
of
stimuli
presented
by
the
teacher.
Those
who
developed
critical
thinking
skills
significantly
dif-
fer
from
those
who
didn't
in
terms
of
selecting,
organizing,
and
using
information.
Literature
indicates
that
those
who
have
developed
and
used
critical
thinking
skills
leam
more
effectively.
Therefore,
it
is
imponant
that
students
develop
critical
thin-
king
skills
and
use
those
skills
in
various
situations.
Being
able
to
use
critical
thinking
skills
in
appropriate
situations
is
pos-
sible
only
when
people
have
critical
thinking
disposition.
Keywords: thinking skills, critical thinking, critical thinking dispositions, leaming, teaching
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Prof. Dr. Haluk SORAN, Prof. Dr. Buket AKKOYUNLU & Prof. Dr. Yüksel KAVAKDuring
the
last
two
years,
all
the
departments
at
Hacettepe
University
have
prepared
their
strategic
plans.
In
these
plans
two
main
concepts
draw
attention:
improving
research
and
publishing
potentials
at
the
university,
and
improving
teachingo
Recently
Hacettepe
University
has
succeed
important
steps
in
terms
of
improving
research
and
publishing
potenti-
als.
As
a
result
of
these
efforts,
Hacettepe
University
has
become
on
the
top
universities
among
Turkish
universities,
and
has
received
a
good
reputation
among
top
world
universities.
Improving
research
and
publishing
potential
is
not
the
only
criteria
in
evaluating
a
higher
education
institution.
In
order
for
a
university
to
be
in
a
higher
position
as
a
whole.
it
needs
to
improve
its
teaching
as
well.
Improving
teaching
potential
requires
that
at
least
the
following
efforts
have
been
taken
into
considerati-
on:
Improving
faculty
members'
teaching
skills,
improving
currlculum.
improving
teaching-learning
situations,
providing
te-
aching
materials,
helping
them
to
acquire
life-Iong
learning
skills,
so
that
they
will
help
their
students
to
acquire
those
skills.
On
the
other
hand,
there
are
activities
going
on
as
part
of
the
Bologna
process
which
is
the
process
of
creation
of
the
Europe-
an
Higher
Education
Area.
Issuing
of
the
Joint
European
Diploma
Supplement
(DS)
to
all
graduates
and
usage
of
a
credit
system
(the
European
Credit
Transfer
System,
ECTS)
are
seen
as
the
main
tools
for
transparency.
During
the
preparation
of
DS
and
ECTS
at
Hacettepe
University,
it
was
realized
that
most
of
our
teaching
programs
are
teacher-centered
as
opposed
to
being
student-centered.
In
addition,
a
number
of
departments
had
problems
with
having
their
curriculum
to
become
parallel
with
ECTS.
In
order
to
complete
this
process,
a
new
framework
is
needed.
Thus,
it
is
important
that
necessary
precautions
ne-
ed
to
taken
under
consideration
in
order
to
improve
teaching
potentials
at
the
university.
In
this
artide,
"Training
Faculty
Members"
program
which
organized
by
faculty
of
education
for
all
the
faculty
members
at
the
university
will
be
explained.
Keywords: lifelong learning, training faculty members, Hacettepe University Faculty of Education
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Yrd. Doç. Dr. Yasin SOYLULeaning
and
teaching
of
basic
concepts
has
become
the
most
important
problems
ofteaching
mathematics.
The-
refore
it
is
necessary
for
teachers
to
have
the
students
to
comprehend
more
elaborately
the
subjects
having
difficult
to
unders-
tand
and
leam.
One
of
these
concepts
is
variable
concept.
In
spite
of
this,
the
concept
of
variable
is
generally
considered
as
being
abstract,
irrelevance
to
the
daily
life
by
the
students
and
this
causes
to
a
negative
attitude
in
response
to
this
concept
and
generally
a
failure
among
them.
One
of
the
most
important
reason
of
this
problem
is
originated
from
different
usage
of
literal
symbols
used
in
the
representation
of
concept
of
variable.
Because,
the
definition
of
the
concept
of
variable
may
change
ac-
cording
to
the
mathematical
context
and
its
function
in
that
context.
The
aim
ofthis
study
is
to
establish
the
students'
leaming
difficuJties
and
their
errors
in
the
concept
of
variable.
The
samples
of
this
research
consist
of
totally
70
students
from
Ataturk
University
Agri
Education
Faculty,
Primary
Science
Teaching
Department.
According
to
the
results
obtained
from
the
exam
papers
of
the
students
and
the
interviews
showed
that
these
students
have
inadequate
and
lack
information
about
usage
of
dif-
fcrent
literal
symbols
in
the
concept
of
variable.
Keywords: Concep! of variable, literal symbol,learning difficulties, errors
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Dr. Hakan TÜZÜNMassively
Multi-player
Online
Role-Playing
Games
(MMORPGs)
have
become
the
form
of
entertainment
and
a
method
of
socialization
in
today's
world.
In
parallel
to
this
multi-player
factor,
educators
are
re-discovering
the
potential
of
computer
games
for
education
and
training
in
the
light
of
sociallearning
theories.
In
this
artide,
Quest
Atlantis
educational
computer
game
is
introduced,
which
indudes
good
pedagogy
in
addition
to
classic
game
characteristics.
Theoretical
frame-
work
of
the
educational
game,
education,
entertainment,
and
social
commitments
foundation
s
for
design,
implementation
pro-
cess
of
the
educational
game
in
differing
contexts,
and
results
of
the
implementations
in
multiple
contexts
are
presented
as
part
of
this
introduction.
This
knowledge
base
might
contribute
to
researchers
and
designers
dealing
with
educational
computer
ga-
me
design
and
development
in
OUT
country
by
providing
a
case
with
it's
pedagogy,
design
structure,
and
implementation
pro-
cess.
Keywords: educational computer games, computer games, multi-user virtual environments
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Arş. Gör. Emel UYSAL & Yrd. Doç. Dr. Ali ERYILMAZThis
studyaimed
to
explore
the
self-estimated
intelligence
dimensions
of
seventh
and
tenth
grade
students,
and
the
relationship
between
these
dimensions
and
science/physics
achievement,
grade
level,
age,
gender
socio
economic
status
and
branch
in
school
(science-math,literature-math,
social
sciences-literature).
In
this
study
a
Multiple
Intelligence
Inventory
was
used
as
a
measuring
instrument.
The
study
was
conducted
in
randomly
selected
26
elementary
and
7
high
school
s
thro-
ughout
Çankaya,
Keçiören
and
Yenimahalle
districts
of
Ankara
with
a
total
of
3721
seventh
and
tenth
grade
students
in
Fall
2003-2004
semester.
The
data
obtained
were
analyzed
by
using
multivariate
analysis
of
variance
(MANOVA)
and
bivariate
correlations.
Results
indicated
that
the
most
dominant
intelligence
of
seventh,
tenth
and
all
students
was
the
interpersonal
in-
telligence,
and
the
grade
level
of
students
had
a
significant
effect
on
their
remaining
self-estimated
inteJligence
dimensions.
Bivariate
correlations
revealed
low
positive
correlations
between
science
achievement
and
interpersonal
intelligence
of
se-
venth
graders.
Keywords: Physics Education, Science Education, Physics Achievement, Science Achievement, Multiple Intelligence Theor
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Naim UZUN & Prof. Dr. Necdet SAĞLAMThis
study
mms
to
introduce
"Environmental
Attitude
Scale"
developed
by
the
authors.
The
scale,
consisting
of
27
items
with
a
5
point
Likert
type,
is
administered
to
a
total
of
969
students,
[584
(60.3%)
Grade
9
and
385
(39.7%)
Grade
Lo
]
attending
various
high
school
s
in
Ankara
in
order
to
get
reliability
and
validity
scores.
The
data
are
analyzed
by
using
SPSS.
The
construct
validity
of
the
scale
is
assessed
by
factorial
analysis.
The
scale
incIudes
"behavior"
and
"attitude"
dimensions
but
excludes
"emotion"
dimension
temporarily.
Therefore,
the
scale
is
considered
to
tap
"Secondary
Environmental
Behavior
Scale"
and
"Secondary
Environmental
Attitude
Scale"
and
both
scales
appeared
to
have
three
factorial
components.
Reliability
analyses
are
carried
out
through
total
item
correlation,
Cronbach
Alpha,
Spearman-Brown
split
half
correlation,
it
is
found
that
for
all
the
items
in
the
scale
Cronbach
alpha
is
.80
and
split
half
test
correlation
is
.76.
In
the
final
section
of
the
study,
the
applicability
of
the
scale
is
discussed
followed
by
some
recommendations.
Keywords: environment, environmental education, environmental attitude, environmental attitude scale
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Arş. Gör. Merve ÜNAL & Prof. Dr. Berrin AKMANThis
study
was
planned
to
evaluate
the
early
childhood
teachers'
attitudes
towards
the
science
teaching
.The
sample
space
of
the
study
consisted
of
160
teachers.
"A
Science
Attitude
Scale"
was
used
to
gather
data
(Hyung-Sook-Cho,
2003).
The
results
obtained
were
statistically
evaluated
by
t-test,
one
way
variance
anaIyses
(ANOVA)
and
LSD
test.
The
results
showed
that
there
is
a
meaningful
relation
between
teacher's
attitudes
towards
science
education
and
their
schoollevels,
inservice
training,
the
cities
they
work.
Keywords: Early childhood teachers, science education, teachers' attitudes
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Doç. Dr. İbrahim YILDIRIMn
the
present
study,
the
prediction
capacity
of
daily
hassles,
social
support,
and
gender
variables
on
academic
achievement
of
8th-
i
Ith
grades
students
were
examined.
The
sample
of
the
study
included
totally
962
(564
female,
398
ma-
le)
students.
Daily
Hassles
Scale
(DHS),
and
Perceived
Social
Support
Scale
(PSSS-R)
were
administred
in
order
to
gather
the
data
in
this
study.
The
data
were
analyzed
by
Stepwise
Regression
technique.
Major
findings
of
this
study
were,
daily
hassles
with
family,
daily
hassles
with
environment,
daily
hassles
with
academic
life;
and
family
support,
peer
support,
and
gender
predicted
academic
achievement
of
8th-
i
1
th
grades
students
significantly.
Teacher
support
and
daily
hassles
with
peer
did
not
predict
academic
achievement
significantly.
The
findings
were
discussed
in
the
light
of
related
literature,
and
suggestion
we-
re
made
Keywords: Academic achievement, daily hassles. social support, students.
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Öğr. Gör. Ali YILDIZ & Prof. Dr. Erdoğan BÜYÜKKASAPIn
this
study
the
misconceptions
of
the
students
who
enroIled
to
the
first
year
physics
department
of
the
Faculty
of
Science
and
Letters
and
to
the
first
year
physics-teaching
department
of
the
K.K.Education
Faculty
at
Atatürk
University
in
the
2002-2003
educational
year
regarding
force
and
motion
were
investigated.
In
addition.
the
extent
to
which
the
instructors
who
would
lecturc
these
students
were
aware
of
the
alternative
opinions
of
these
students
on
these
subject
s
was
researched.
The
research
covered
a
total
of
149
students.
In
the
research,
three-stage
and
open-ended
questions
that
would
distinguish
mis-
conceptions
from
inadequate
knowledge,
mistakes
and
presumptions
were
used.
During
the
same
week
the
qucstionnaire
was
applied
to
the
students.
20
instructors
were
interviewed
and
they
were
asked
to
make
presumptions
about
the
alternative
ans-
wers
of
the
students
to
the
open-ended
questions.
it
was
found
in
this
research
that
students
had
too
many
misconceptions
and
that
there
were
differences
between
the
students'
presumptions
and
the
conjecture
regarding
the
ideas
of
the
students
made
by
the
teaching
staff
who
would
lecture
them
at
the
university.
Keywords: force. motion. misconception
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Yrd.Doç.Dr. Miraç YILMAZ, Arş.Gör. Cem GERÇEK, Öğr.Gör. Pınar KÖSEOĞLU & Prof.Dr. Haluk SORANThe aim of the study is to identify the self-efficacy beliefs related to computers of the biology student teachers in Hacettepe Universityand to find whether certain variables have impact on their self-efficacy belief. The data were collec- ted by the use of survey questionnaire and the scale of self-efficacy perception about computers (Aşkar & Umay, 2001). For the variables, the arithmetical mean and standard deviation were cakulated. ANOV A and t test were employed to identify any difference amoung variables. The data indicate that the self-efficacy levels of the student teachers are low (2,36) and that the variables analysed do not have any significant effects on the self-efficacy levels.
Keywords: self-efficacy, preservice teachers, computer self-efficacy
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