Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research (EPASR - E-Journal)
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International Scholars Views on the Language Reinforcement Program
Get PDFLanguage plays a critical role in an individuals adapting to a community and developing a sense of friendship and belonging. In its absence, Humans suffer from a lack of trust in each other since they cannot speak in the same language. If they fail to communicate, this incapability leads to problems. Additionally, individual and common social communication can beperformed by language education, as well and language education is directly associated with the cultural transmission. Kyrgyzstan Turkey Manas University functions as an educational bridge between Turkey and Kyrgyzstan and offers education in Turkish (Turkey Turkish). Moreover, there are Turkey Turkish departments at Humanitarian Social Sciences University and Yusuf Balasagun Kyrgyz National University in Kyrgyzstan. The ongoing Language Reinforcement Project annually offers training to the students of these departments of the contracted organizations for six months. According to the scholars views how the Kyrgyz students who had the chance to come to Turkey via the Language Reinforcement Projectwere affected by the internship in general and how the components of this project will contribute to Turkish and Kyrgyz peopleare the research questions of the study.The sample of the research consists of ten volunteer scholars working at Yusuf Balasagun Kyrgyz National University in Kyrgyzstan in the Fall Term of the 2018-2019 Academic Year. Six female and four male scholars participated in the research. This study is a qualitative research study and the data collection tool of the study is the interview. According to the results of the study, the scholars expressed their satisfaction with the students internship or training in Turkey as well as the other advantages
Investigation of Nomophobia Levels of Secondary School Students in terms of Some Variables
Get PDFNomophobia, a newborn concept that has become an important part of our lives in recent years due to effective use of smart phones in daily life, can be defined as fear of staying away from smart phones. The aim of this study is to determine the nomophobia level of 8th grade students and to determine whether the nomophobia levels of the students differ according to the variables such as gender, overall grade point average, parental education status, parental profession, and monthly income of the family. In this study, a quantitative research method was conducted. Nomophobia Scale developed by Yıldırım and Correia (2015) and The Demographic Knowledge Form were used as data collection tools. According to the findings%253B the nomophobia levels of 8th grade students did not differ by gender of the students, overall grade point average, educational status of the parents, profession of the parents and monthly financial amount of the family
Consistency of the Narrative Texts Written by Middle School Students and Their Textual Creation Levels
Get PDFThe present study aimed to identify and classify the consistency problems in the texts written by middle school 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade students and to determine their textual levels. In the study, numerical data were also used within the context of descriptive analysis design, a qualitative research method. The study group included 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade students attending two middle schools in Van province, located in the Eastern Anatolia Region in Turkey. Ten students were randomly selected from each grade level. The texts were analyzed by assigning codes to 40 participating students and their narrative texts based on the grade level. The analysis of the narrative texts written by the students was conducted with the quot%253BNarrative Text Consistency Scale,quot%253B developed by the authors. The validity and reliability of the scale were determined based on the expert opinion. The texts written by the students were analyzed based on the scale by additional 3 faculty members. The study findings demonstrated that the students experienced consistency problems in narrative texts such as inability to precisely reflect the relations between events in the text, alteration of the narrative between the events narrated in the text and sudden transitions, contradictions and irrational transitions between the sections, the lack of a conclusion, inconsistencies about the protagonists, and non-identification of the characters in the story. It was also determined that the number of creative texts was 4, the number of successful texts was 8, the number of texts that could be accepted as a text partially was 9, the number of texts that could be considered in the phase of text creation was 12, and the number of texts that could not be accepted as texts was 7
Evaluation of Assistant Principal Roles and Jobs at School in the Context of Henry Mintzbergs Managerial Roles
Get PDFOrganizations aim at achieving their objectives with their personnel. One of the personnel of a school, which is also an organization, is the assistant principal. Assistant principals are the personnel managing the school with the school principal. This study aims at presenting how assistant principals interpret their roles and jobs in managing the school by considering Henry Mintzbergs opinions on the roles and jobs of administrators. This study was carried out with a qualitative research method and phenomenological pattern. Twenty assistant principals participated in this study. Interviews, observations, and documents were used in this study. There were two themes as a result of this study. These are the roles and jobs of assistant principals. Assistant principals have many roles and jobs in the school that are interrelated and complementary. These are bureaucratic and affect education. However, this is not something that assistant principals want. In addition to this, it was seen that the data collected from this study and the opinions of Henry Mintzberg generally supported each other. The main reason for not supporting each other is thought to be the scope of the current study. The last section of this study included recommendations
A Relational Study of Pre-Service Teachers Epistemological Beliefs, Educational Philosophy Tendencies and Teaching-Learning Conceptions
Get PDFThe aim of this study is to analyze, using a path analysis model, the predictive relationships among pre-service teachers epistemological beliefs, their educational philosophy tendencies and their teaching-learning conceptions. A relational screening model and predictive correlational design were used in this study. The sample of this study consisted of 1621 pre-service teachers from the faculty of education in a state university in Turkey. The Epistemological Beliefs Scale adapted by Deryakulu amp%253B Büyüköztürk (2005), the Teaching-Learning Conceptions Scale adapted by Aypay (2011), and the Educational Philosophy Tendency Scale developed by researchers were all used as data collection tools. Path analysis was used to calculate predictive relationships among pre-service teachers epistemological beliefs, their educational philosophy tendencies, and their teaching-learning conceptions. Study findings indicate that pre-service teachers epistemological beliefs and their educational philosophy tendencies are statistically significant predictors of their teaching-learning conceptions. The findings also indicated that pre-service teachers epistemological beliefs are statistically significant predictors of their educational philosophy tendencies. In this context, predictive relationships among variables were scrutinized and a number of suggestions were made in light of these findings
Efficiency of Reading Time Application in Schools through the Eyes of Students
Get PDFReading is the process of vocalizing a text by perceiving it through the eyes and the brain and of forming meanings from sounds. A student who learns to read in the first grade can develop this skill in later grades and read more fluently, in accordance with the type of text and reading rules. In order for students to read more willingly texts or books other than the ones they read in lessons, their reading skills should be developed, and they should acquire reading habit. Students%252339%253B acquisition of reading habit is closely related to interest and support by the class teacher at primary school, and by Turkish teachers and their families at secondary school. Teachers and families benefit from various applications so that students can acquire reading habit. Some schools engage in certain activities for this purpose. One of such activities in schools is reading time application. In this study, we aim to put forward certain implications related to reading time application in schools and to seek ways to increase its efficiency, resting on the findings from the opinions of students studying at Erzurum Yakutiye 1071 Malazgirt Secondary School, where this activity was applied, on reading time application. At the end of the application, which was carried out in the 2017-2018 academic year%253B a semi-structured interview form, prepared by the researcher and consisting of six questions- apart from personal information- was applied to the students. Eventually, data obtained from one hundred and twenty students is evaluated with content analysis, which is one of qualitative data analysis methods. It is concluded that 93%25 of the students whose opinions are consulted in the study find reading time application efficient, and 6.5%25 of them find reading time application inefficient
Psychological Resilience Level of Individuals Living in Çanakkale, Turkey
Get PDFDisasters affect individuals psychologically and some individuals take a long time to get rid of this effect. Psychological resilience is defined as the individuals having a psychologically strong structure, being affected by negative situations as little as possible and getting rid of stressful situations quickly. The aim of this study is to determine the psychological resilience level of individuals living in Çanakkale. Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale was used to determine the participants resilience level. Participants in the study are 412 individuals, aged between 18 and 60, who are determined by the simple random sampling method living in the Central District of Çanakkale. The data were analyzed using SPSS 21 software. Cronbach%252339%253Bs Alpha reliability coefficient of the scale was found to be 0.92. The mean of the psychological resilience level was 3.75. Results showed that the most psychologically resilient people are males, high school graduates, individuals between the ages of 29-39, divorced, those who do not have children, those with a monthly income of more than 3001 TL, those with natural disaster insurance and those who are previously faced a disaster
Investigation of the Opinions of Teachers Who Received In-Service Training for Arduino-Assisted Robotic Coding Applications
Get PDFThe aim of this study is to determine the opinions of primary school teachers who received in-service training on robotic coding applications. For this purpose, descriptive study model, which is one of the qualitative research methods, was utilized. The study group of the research consisted of six primary school teachers who voluntarily gave opinions out of 30 teachers who participated in in-service robotic coding training in the first semester of 2018-2019 academic year. quot%253BSemi-structured interview formquot%253B was used as data collection tool. The data obtained from the participants were transferred to NVivo 12 program and analyzed by content analysis method and classified under certain categories. Direct quotations were included to reflect the responses of the participants in a striking manner. As a result of the research, participants stated that the in-service training period was inadequate and limited, and that a limited number of examples of robotic coding applications were covered. In addition, it was found that the participants generally did not incorporate such practices in their own classes after the training. They made various explanations about the reasons of this situation. In line with the results of this research, it is suggested that more time should be devoted to the applications related to robotic coding provided to teachers during in-service training, and that activities related to how to integrate them into classroom teaching practices should be organized
Critical Discourse Analysis%253A An Effective Tool for Critical Peace Education Informed by Freirean Dialogue
Get PDFThis study emphasizes that research and practice regarding employing dialogue as transformative pedagogy should be investigated and cultivated by peace educators in ways relevant to various contexts. In this regard, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has a valuable potential to contribute to the development of this relatively new scholarly field by providing effective tools to problematize and analyze social practices. This paper explores critical peace education as it is informed by the dialogical method of emancipatory education, and scrutinizes the promising potential of CDA as an essential tool for on-going research in the field. Towards this goal, this paper includes two subsections. The first section discusses Freirean dialogue and his six preconditions (i.e., love, humility, faith, hope, trust, andcritical thinking) as fundamental constructs for critical peace education. The second section explores how the theories, goals, and methods of CDA in current discourse studies connect to constructs in Freirean dialogue and peace education. This section concentrates on four prominent approaches developed by Scollon, Gee, Kress, and Fairclough to underline their key aspects from a Freirian dialogic perspective. The final section discusses the possible affordances and limitations for employing CDA in the study of critical peace education
Mathematics Education Values Portrayed by Elementary Student Teachers
Get PDFThis study aims at investigating values in mathematics education portrayed by elementary student teachers. Data were gathered from 401 elementary student teachers at two public universities in Turkey. The results of the study showed that overall student teachers had positive mathematics education values. They recognized that the theoretical nature of mathematics apart from its relations to daily life would be meaningless. However, they held negative mathematics education values regarding conceptual learning of mathematics. They also recognized how important it was to emphasize the affective and cognitive outcomes in mathematics programs. The findings showed that no significant differences between student teachers mathematics education values regarding gender and year spent in the program. However, significant differences were found in theory emphasis mathematics teaching favoring female student teachers