Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research (EPASR - E-Journal)
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An Analysis of the Metaphorical Perceptions About the Piano by Fine Arts High School Students
Get PDFThe aim of this study is to determine, as expressed in metaphors, the attitudes of the students of music department in the Fine Arts High School (FAHS) in the 2019-2020 academic year. The study was carried out with 37 music students in 9th and 12th grades of Mersin Adıyaman Fine Arts High School. In line with the phenomenological research design, a form including the statement The piano lesson is likehellip%253B Because... was used to collect the data for the study. Determining the attitudes of the students of the music department towards the piano is critical in terms of increasing the quality of piano learning and music education. Since metaphors are crucial in determining the student%252339%253Bs attitude towards a musical instrument, the metaphors that are used by the student are extremely important. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the metaphorical meanings assigned to the piano by FAHS music students. The data were categorized by using content and frequency analysis techniques, which revealed 34 positive and three negative metaphorical definitions about the piano instrument. The findings indicate that most of the participants have positive metaphoric definitions of the piano
Activity and Workbooks of Ministry of National Education%253A Preschool Teachers are Evaluating
Get PDFThe book sets Preschool Education Activity Guidebook for teachers and Lets Join Hands for Preschool Education for children have been provided by the Ministry of National Education to all preschool education institutions since 2017 in order to provide high-quality preschool education, to help teachers develop different perspectives, and to discourage both students and teachers from using unreliable or inappropriate sources of information. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of the book sets on teachers and children. Phenomenology, which is qualitative research design, was used. The sample consisted of 24 preschool teachers from different educational institutions. Data were collected using interview forms created in Google Forms. Data were analyzed using second-cycle coding, which is inductive content analysis. Many participants are satisfied with the activity guidebooks and use them to develop different perspectives, to improve themselves, and to be more productive for their students. Teaching experiences and classroom materials affect the way they use the activity guidebooks. Although the book sets have some negative effects, they are guides for both teachers and parents. Participants think that the book sets are useful for education planning and process management but that different variables should also be taken into account when integrating them in education and that all available resources should be used to achieve professional development
Logical Thinking Levels of Teacher Candidates
Get PDFLogical thinking is a thinking that reveals the right thinking by having the ability to use various concepts with their meanings, to make inferences by making suggestions and to make reasoning by focusing on problem solving. A study is planned to show where this type of thinking is among other types of thinking and what level it is in individuals. In the research, it was aimed to determine the level of logical thinking in students. For this purpose, the working group has been determined. In order to determine the level of logical thinking in the study, the Logical Thinking Scale (MDI) developed by the researcher was applied to 525 students in total at Atatürk University Kazım Karabekir Education Faculty. The relationship between the personal information form and the total scores obtained from the scale was examined. In this application, gender, department (to see the difference between numerical and verbal-weighted sections) and book reading frequency (to see if reasoning skills improve with reading frequency) are discussed. As a result of the study, it was found that students who read books every day have higher logical thinking levels. Students who study in Education Sciences and Turkish and Social Sciences Education have higher logical thinking levels than students studying in other departments
The effect of teaching with slackline exercises on balance skills learning of university students
Get PDFThis study aims to analyze the impact of slackline exercises on the balance skills of university student on their learning. Twenty university student kickboxers voluntarily attended the study (8 women and 12 men). They were randomly divided into two groups (each group four females and six males) as the experimental group (EG) and the control group (CG), each consisting of 10 subjects. CG only followed regular training, while EG applied supervised slackline exercises for two days a week and 10 min sessions in addition to regular training for 4-week. Some tests were done before and after slackline exercises in the evaluation of all participants%253A counter movement jump, standing long jump, leg strength test, back strength test, static balance test Stork Stand Balance (SST) and dynamic balance test. According to the post-test results, the SST values which are the static balance test of EG were significantly higher than the CG. As a result, if slackline exercises, which are organized in addition to the regular training sessions specific to the branch, are applied in more extended periods, it can contribute to the balance skill learning and the balance necessary for performing technical movement
Mentor Teachers Mentoring Practices in Science Teaching%253A Views of Pre-service Early Childhood Teachers
Get PDFPractical experiences in teaching settings are an important component of pre-service teacher education programs. Pre-service teachers advance what they learn and improve their science teaching (ST) skills as well as other subjects in early childhood education for the period of teaching practices. In addition, teaching science in early childhood education requires more practices for improving teaching skills. Mentor teacher (classroom teacher) is valuable as well as professors in teacher education programs to pre-service teachers while teaching science. The purpose of this study is to reveal mentor teachers mentoring practices in ST according to pre-service early childhood teachers views. The method employed method was descriptive study. The sample is composed of 96 pre-service early childhood teachers and their mentors (N%253D41). Data were collecting within MEST survey. The results showed that most of the pre-service teachers reported their mentor teachers demonstrated less mentoring practices on the system requirement about ST. The pre-service teachers also pointed out that their mentor teachers mostly showed mentoring practices on personal attributes, pedagogical knowledge, modeling, and feedback factors. Knowing and 7understanding the mentoring skills of early childhood teachers in system requirement, pedagogical knowledge, modeling, giving feedback, and personal attributes would have an important growing on preservice early childhood teachers science teaching skills. That will be helpful for shaping new teaching practices and field experiences in different majors for improving teachers teaching skills
The Effects of Cartoons on the Use of Vocabulary Learning Strategies%253A A Case in Turkish EFL Classes
Get PDFThe impetus behind the design of this current research is to check the influence of cartoons on vocabulary learning strategies of students who have been exposed to three classics from English literature, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, and Romeo amp%253B Juliet by William Shakespeare. To that end, a vocabulary learning strategy test has been adopted in this quasi-experimental research which completely covers similar word units as in cartoons and hence aims to reveal favoured strategies of students besides clarifying the differences between the male and the female as well as three age groups, 10-19, 20-29 or 30 and elder. 20 randomly assigned participants working on extracts in plain texts without any comic strips were in control group, whereas 47 Turkish EFL students were in the experiment group reading cartoons in colour or black and white format. It was found out that the common vocabulary learning strategies that were used by the experimental group were determination and metacognitive strategies, whereas control group mainly adopted memory, social and metacognitive strategies. In terms of gender, the females practised determination and memory strategies, while the male students opted for social, metacognitive and cognitive strategies. Finally, 10-19 and 30 or elder subjects mostly utilized metacognitive and social strategies%253B however, the success of 20-29 year-old students centred around determination and memory strategies
An Analysis of the Persuasion Strategies Used by Turkish Language Teachers to Persuade Their Students
Get PDFPersuasion has been a key concept for human communication throughout history. Humans constantly try to persuade or are persuaded since they are in a continuous state of communication and interaction. The aim of this study is to determine the persuasion strategies related to understanding and explaining skills used by the teachers of Turkish language in creating learning environments. For this purpose, a semi-structured interview form was created with the Google Docs and 46 Turkish teachers volunteered to answer the questions. Examination of the Turkish language teachers opinions revealed that they developed positive and negative persuasion strategies. The positive persuasion strategies by frequency are rewarding, experience transfer, arousing interest, establishing condition-and-effect relationships, giving responsibility, conversing, trusting, motivating, caring, empathizing, performing needs assessment, building cause-and-effect relationships, establishing positive style, creating environment, developing a culture of reconciliation, giving feedback, establishing rules, building aim-and-effect relationships, body language, creating consciousness, using the question-answer method, listening, providing feedback, being respectful, presenting alternative sources, making a difference, getting to know the student, going from the known towards the unknown, being student-oriented, guidance, going from simple to complex, working together, drawing attention, creating awareness, cooperative learning, perseverance, the separation into small groups, being patient, and association with real life. The negative persuasion strategies by frequency are punishment, competition, verbal warning, using grading as a threat, admonition, singling students out, doing nothing, comparison, negative style, conscientious pressure and necessity. Preservice or in-service teachers may be given training on persuasion strategies so that they can become aware of these strategies and apply them more effectively
Opinions of Secondary School Students with Interactive Social Studies Notebooks (ISSN) on Values Development
Get PDFWith the aim of investigating the values gained by using interactive notebook applications in social studies lessons for secondary school students, this study was completed as a case study from the qualitative research pattern including 21 students attending a state secondary school in İzmir province during the 2017-2018 educational year and using interactive social studies notebooks. The 21 students selected with the simple random sampling method underwent individual, face-to-face semi-structured interviews. The obtained data was analyzed with the MAXQDA 12 program for content analysis. The following conclusions were reached based on the obtained findings%253B during ISSN activities students helped each other more compared to normal educational activities and they conceptualized and developed the importance of helping. When students helped each other they felt happy, good, loved and that their friendships were strengthened. They developed their sense of sharing when everyone did the activity together and shared the material they needed. With sharing values, the students began to trust each other and developed a sense of trust. The value of responsibility also developed, though not as much as the other values. Students participating in the research enjoyed doing activities together and expression of this situation can be said to show they developed esthetic feelings. Within the framework of ISSN activities, students generally had positive criticism of the activities performed with friends, but some students had negative criticism. Students performing ISSN activities attempted to leave their surroundings or working area clean at the end of lessons. Students who forgot to clean were warned by other students
Gifted Students Analogies towards Science and Arts Centres
Get PDFThis study investigated the gifted students analogical perceptions of science and arts centres (SACs). Qualitative research method has been adopted. The data were collected from 4th and 5th graders selected through the purposive sampling through an interview form developed by the researchers. The participant students analogical expressions for SACs were analysed through the content analysis method. The students were required to make analogies between SACs and eight themes (e.g. cars, games, occupations, clothes, subjects, stories, scientists and relatives) by justifying them. The content analysis results of their responses indicated that the gifted students held quite positive perceptions of SACs and that these centres fulfil the goals and objectives identified by MoNE. SACs were mostly compared to speedy cars, challenging games that require use of mind and strategic thinking, warm clothes, occupations that require self-sacrifice, patience and dedication, numerical courses, close relatives, the most popular stories%252F tales of the world literature and the scientists most of whom lived in 19th and 20th century. This study is important in terms of pointing out that there is a positive relationship between the attitudes of SAC students towards educational institutions and their academic success
Evaluation of Audiobook Listening Experiences of 8th Grade Students
Get PDFIn this research, audiobook listening experiences of 8th grade students are discussed. In this context, the effect of audiobooks on students%252339%253B attitudes towards listening is determined and their opinions on audiobooks are evaluated. In the study, action research design, one of the qualitative research methods, was used. The prepared action plan covers an 11-week period in the 2018-2019 school year. The research was conducted in an 8th grade class with 24 students in a secondary in the province of Kayseri, in Talas district. The research data were collected by using the listening attitude scale for secondary school students, student diaries, semi-structured interview forms and interview records. The change in students%252339%253B attitudes scale, within the framework of the action plan, was identified by using the paired t-test analysis with pre-test and post-test applications. The qualitative data collected on audiobook listening experience in students were analyzed by using content analysis. According to research results, audiobooks have a positive effect on students%252339%253B attitudes towards listening. While the most important advantages of audiobooks are the fact that they can be listened to at any place, they enrich imagination and encourage students to use the Internet in a more beneficial way, their most common disadvantages are the fact that they do not improve reading speed, that they do not serve for exams and that they cause attention deficit. In the study, it was concluded that event-themed books were the favorite audiobook type in students