MUHAMMED FATİH DOĞAN
MUHAMMED FATİH DOĞAN
Although reasoning and proof in learning and teaching mathematics is crucial and have gained more presence in school mathematics, both students and their teachers face great difficulties when engaging in proving activities. One potential cause for such difficulties might be due to teachers’ conception of proof. However, to date, there are few, if any, studies that have examined how secondary school in-service mathematics teachers learn justification and proof. Thus, in order to fill this gap, this study examines secondary school in-service teachers’ engagement in proving activities by providing observational data from a master’s level professional development course that focuses on teaching reasoning and proof. The findings from this work show that teachers were very successful at engaging in exploration of the proving tasks, but they fail to produce complete-deductive arguments. Some reasons behind this failure were teachers’ lack of a perceived need for justification and proofafter exploring the task,and their lack of seeing algebraic symbolization as a viable means of expressing mathematical ideas.
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Burcu GÜRKAN, Ahmet DOĞANAY
Burcu GÜRKAN, Ahmet DOĞANAY
The purpose of this research is to examine the designing of the characteristics such as "prior knowledge and skills, the speed of learning and the level of reasoning, learning style and multiple intelligence"which are accepted as individual differences and the perception of application efficiency of primary school teachers and teacher candidates. The study was designed according to phenomenology which is one of the qualitative research methods. Participants in the study were selected according to the criterion sampling among primary school teachers working in schools in different socio-economic levels in Adana and Gaziantep in the fall semester of the 2017-2018 academicyear and primary school teacher candidates continuing their education in the same period. In this case, 13 female, 10 male out of 23 primary school teachers and 17 female 3 male out of 20 primary school teacher candidates attended. In the research, the data were collected through "Daily Lesson Plans" and "Demographic Specifications Form", "Semi-structured Interview Form Based on Individual Differences" developed by the researchers. The obtained data were converted into findings by content and descriptive analysis. The analyzes show that primary school teachers have included the implementations for determining the prior knowledge and skills, learning styles and dominant intelligence areas, and teacher candidates have an awareness of how to do this too. However, primary school teachers and teacher candidates do not find themselves efficiency in designing and implementing the teaching process based on different prior knowledge and skills, the speed of learning and the level of reasoning, learning styles, and multiple intelligence activities.
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This research paper is based on the revision and improvement of on-goingEnglish for Specific Purposes (ESP) programs developed for undergraduate fine arts students of a private universityin Istanbul, Turkey. The programs were originally developed upon request from the faculty administration due to the need felt by lack of adequate English language teaching in the faculty’s undergraduate programs where in the new system the candidates were required to comply with only the intermediate level preparatory course requirements to be eligible to pursue their undergraduate programs. The students who had already complied with the previous preparatory school requirements and who attended the undergraduate programs were integrated into the new programs. They were required to take some of the new courses -depending on the number of the previous English language courses they had taken -as compulsory non-credit courses. Thus, this paper seeks to identify the attitude the undergraduate students of the Faculty of Fine Arts had towards the two kinds of on-going programs which had been implemented for six months since their establishment.
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Nihal MAMATOĞLU, Hande TASA
Nihal MAMATOĞLU, Hande TASA
In this study, cultural comparison topics that emerged in the field of conflict and negotiation literature were handled as a whole, with the aim of to define the conflict and negotiation processes in Turkish culture. Research sample consists of 71 females and 91 males totally 162 adult employees. The research was structured with 47 open ended questions using face to face interview technique. The obtained data were analyzed using appropriate qualitative and quantitative methods. At the end of the study findings about definition of conflict and negotiation, aims of negotiation, ideal negotiator, risk taking and bluffing, protocol used in negotiation, communication styles in negotiation, time management, benefit orientation, strategies used in conflict and negotiation are discussed in the light of relevant cultural literature.This study is supported by TUBİTAK 1001 project no: 113K548 named Conflict and Negotiation in TurkishCulture.
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Özlem ŞENYİĞİT, Gülnar Tuğba TEFEK
Özlem ŞENYİĞİT, Gülnar Tuğba TEFEK
The study which is based on the reality that architecture has strong and important bonds with other disciplines analyzes the interaction between architecture, literature and philosophy through city and space which are the common study field of three disciplines. According to this relation, in the study it was focused on the interaction of architecture discipline with hermeneutic text reading. The aim of study is to analyze the potential of architecture discipline with literature through house, shanty, apartment, urban memory and nostalgia terms in the context of urban transformation. In this sense, the main objects of discussion are different perspectives of individual towards living place and urban transformation. The hermeneutic reading was done over A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk. The necessity of size put forward in contextual frame in order to form integrity with the space, the city; the absence of belonging in case of sub-expansions of these sizes, problem of adoption and longing were analyzed over the book through hermeneutic reading.
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Demet SEVER, Dilruba KÜRÜM-YAPICIOĞLU, Derya ATİK-KARA
Demet SEVER, Dilruba KÜRÜM-YAPICIOĞLU, Derya ATİK-KARA
The purpose of the study is to examine Curriculum and Instruction (CI) Postgraduate Program in Turkey based on field experts’ views. This study focuses on problems of Curriculum and Instruction Program (CIP) field and opinions on theorganization of the programs. The participants of the study, which is based on a case study for the purpose of evaluation, were 50 instructors working in the CIP field in 33 institutions. An expert panel model was used to collect the data. Under the model, the participants shared their views with a moderator and a moderator assistant in five groups. The views were recorded verbally and written by the reporters and analyzed through inductive analysis. The findings of the study revealed the necessity of the development of CIP field, the existence of various problems at the field of training instructors and students, and of developing the programs in terms of level and content. The problems raised in the development of the field were gathered under the themes of quality of the studies, basic terms, expert recognition and cooperation with different institutions. By focusing on the structures of Master’s and PhD programs, the views of determining the content of the programs and the provision of standardization rise to prominence within the framework of the organization of the programs. Regarding the structure of the courses in the program, the arrangement of the courses, the course contents and the way of processing them are among the outstanding findings.
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S. Cansu YILDIZ, Aysel ESEN ÇOBAN
S. Cansu YILDIZ, Aysel ESEN ÇOBAN
Drawing in childhood period is an activity in which children reflect themselves freely, expressing their emotions, thoughts and imaginations. The aim of the research is to examine the views, experiences in practice lessons and approaches of pre-service preschool teachersabout the drawings of children. The research is a phenomenology study of qualitative research methods. The study group consists of 10 students who arefourth grade studentsin the preschool teaching programand havesuccessfully completed the "Teaching Practice I" course and continuing on "Teaching Practice II". Semi-structured interviewing technique was applied by conducting face-to-face interviews with the participants. As a result of research,it was determined that pre-service preschool teachers did not have sufficient knowledge about approaches to children's drawings and all of the pre-service teachersthink that the current undergraduate program is inadequate. It has been found that pre-service teachersoften set drawing activities to get to know the child, to evaluate after the activity and to help children express themselves creatively. Moreover it has been concludedthat pre-service preschool teachers mostly use the questioning approach tochildren's drawings.
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Emine ÖNDER, Hatice PETEK
Emine ÖNDER, Hatice PETEK
In this study, it is aimed to determine how the secondary school students perceive primary schools and secondary schools in which they received their education in terms of equality of opportunity and possibility. Causal-comparative model is used for this research. The data of the research, which was conducted on the secondary school students in the city center of Burdur, was collected through the “Scale of Equality of Opportunity and Possibility in Education”. Descriptive analyses such as percentage and frequency and One-Way Manova analysis were used in the study. As a result of this study, it was understood that the perceptions of secondary school students in regard to equality of opportunity and possibility varied based on gender, type of school and whether the place of living is rural or urban. It was determined that the students, who received education in a type of school except for women’s vocational secondary school and live in the city, perceived their primary school and secondary school to be more sufficient in regard to the equality of opportunity and possibility. This study includes suggestions in line with the acquired results.
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Şahin DANİŞMAN, Engin KARADAĞ
Şahin DANİŞMAN, Engin KARADAĞ
This research aims to adapt the Teaching Ability Beliefs Scale (TABS, Fives & Buehl, 2008, 2013) used for determining the teaching ability beliefs of individuals into Turkish language and culture in addition to testing the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the scale. Briefly, this research seeks for a scale to question the teaching ability from the perspective of ‘nature versus nurture’. The research was carried out using the data obtained from 270 teachers and 274 pre-service teachers. After the translation of the items in the scale and testing the translation validity, language and meaning validity, construct validity (exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses) and internal consistency have been examined. The results obtained indicated that the scale has three factors as (i) innate, (ii) learned, and (iii) hybrid and that the scale was valid and reliable for the Turkish culture. Two factors of the original scale which are requires polish and either resulted in the hybrid factor of the adapted scale. As a result, it can be inferred that the findings have evidential value for TABS to be used in identifying the teaching ability beliefs of teachers and pre-service teachers.
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Işıner SEVER, Ali Özgür ERSOY
Işıner SEVER, Ali Özgür ERSOY
The aim of this study is to develop a scale to determine the decision-making skills of fourth grade students. While developing the scale, dimensions and sub-factors on decision-making skills were reviewed in related literature. The item pool was formed based on this review. The initial form of scale was completed with expert opinions and two separate pilot studies. The final form was applied to 489 fourth grade students from various socio-economic levels in Eskişehir. There were 306 participants for exploratory factor analysis and, 183 participants for confirmatory factor analysis. Maximum variation sampling method, which is one of purposeful sampling methods was used when determining the participants. As the result of exploratory factor analysis, a single factor consisted of 15 items. Item factor loadings ranged from .53 to .74, the Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient was calculated as .89, and the explained variance was calculated as 40.078. After confirmatory factor analysis, the structure NFI: .93, NNFI: .96, CFI: .97, GFI: .88, AGFI: .85. According to the validity and reliability results, it was determined that the scale was valid and reliable. The scale consisted of 15 items in four Likert types (never, occasionally, usually, always). The score can be obtained from the scale ranged from 15 to 60. In addition, no reverse items were included in the scale.
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