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A REVIEW OF GRADUATE THESES IN THE FIELD OF SELF-REGULATION IN PRESCHOOL IN TURKEY
Full text linkDocument analysis, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study in which graduate theses in the field of self-regulation in preschool in Turkey were examined according to the determined criteria. The sample of the research, which was determined by using the criterion sampling method, which is one of the purposeful sampling methods, consists of a total of 76 graduate theses, 59 master's theses and 17 doctoral theses, which were in the field of self-regulation in preschool in Turkey between 2012-2023. The quantitative content analysis method was used in the analysis of the data. The data obtained are presented in graphs and tables. According to the results of the research, there was no graduate thesis about the field of education and training in the field of preschool self-regulation in Turkey until 2012, the most thesis was done in 2022, the most studied type of thesis was master’s thesis, the most quantitative research method and relational survey model were used in theses. It was concluded that the highest number of theses were at Gazi University, the provinces with the highest number of theses were Istanbul and Ankara, the highest number of children were working groups/samples in theses, and 23 different categories were studied in the field of self-regulation. Considering the results of the study, it is recommended to study more doctoral theses in the preschool period and to prepare theses using qualitative research methods
VIRTUAL LEARNING IS NOT FOR MY CHILD! A PARENTAL PERSPECTIVE OF PRACTICES USED WITH CHILDREN WITH AUTISM DURING THE PANDEMIC
Full text linkOnce the COVID-19 was declared as a pandemic, most countries temporarily closed schools and shifted to home-based distance education. Each country had its own way of implementing education remotely. Turkey used an enhanced version of the currently existing Education Information Network (EBA) to deliver distance education to all children including those with autism. The rapid shift from face-to-face education to home-based virtual learning created unprecedented challenges and impacted development and learning of children with autism who often need individualized and systematic instruction. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore parental perceptions about effectiveness of distance education practices for children with autism and challenges they faced during visual learning. A total of 208 parents of children with autism participated in quantitative data collection while 18 also attended to individually conducted interviews. Results indicated many families did not use EBA to support their children’s learning and the content of virtual learning opportunities through EBA was not appropriate for the characteristics of children with autism. Implications for future practice and research as well as the limitations of this study were discussed
THE EFFECTS OF PRACTICUM PRACTICE ON TURKISH PRESERVICE EFL TEACHERS’ BELIEF SYSTEMS
Full text linkResearch related to teacher cognition has regained momentum over the years, and related problems have been studied from different perspectives. Studies concerning the belief systems of Turkish preservice teachers in the English as a foreign language (EFL) domain are existent but insufficient. This study tries to add to the existent literature by examining the changes in belief systems of Turkish EFL preservice teachers during a 14-week practicum practice. To this end, a case study was carried out at a public university in Turkey. Reflection reports of 53 preservice teachers, which were written both at the beginning and the end of the practicum practice, were analyzed using content analysis. The results revealed that certain changes in participants’ belief systems appeared during the practicum practice. The changes clustered around five main categories: the use of mother tongue in language instruction, the affective aspect of teaching, teaching mechanism, the use of technology in language instruction, and the relationship between theory and practice. We discuss the results in relation to the related literature and provide implications along with suggestions.
In many countries, students enroll in a school without being given a choice and spend most of their time with teachers and administrators they have never met before. This research was carried out to analyze the opinions of students about the school and its staff, which can often be considered as the fate of students by some people. The research was carried out with 27 students, 14 female and 13 male, studying in five different secondary schools in the 2022-2023 fall semester. In this study, which was conducted with the qualitative research method, the data were collected using a semi-structured interview form prepared by the researchers. Content and descriptive analysis techniques were used in the analysis of the data. As a result of the research, it was observed that the most positive opinions of the students were towards the teachers, and the most negative opinions were related to the school administrators. It has been determined that more than half of them have negative opinions about the concept of school.
Keywords: English as a foreign language, teacher education, preservice teachers, teacher cognitio
INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF DISTANCE EDUCATION ON DIGITAL LITERACY SKILLS OF TURKISH TEACHERS:
Full text linkThe aim of this study is to seek into the digital literacy skills of Turkish teachers who teach distance education during the Covid-19 epidemic. In this study, a one-group pre-test post-test experimental design which is one of the quantitative research methods was used. The study group of this research consists of 92 participants who work as Turkish teachers in the Ministry of National Education in Turkey. Digital Literacy Scale was used as a data collection tool. A form was prepared via GoogleDocs to collect research data. It was applied to Turkish teachers before starting distance education in the first week of the fall semester of the 2020-2021 academic year. At the beginning of the semester, the scale was applied once again. So research data was collected. Paired Sample T-test was used to analyze the data. As a result of the research, it has been determined that distance education has a significant effect on digital literacy. In other words, during the Covid-19 epidemic, the digital literacy skills of Turkish teachers who teach their lessons with distance education have improved.  
PARENTS’ PARTICIPATION IN DISTANCE SPECIAL EDUCATION PRACTICES: A REVIEW ON TEACHERS’ OPINIONS
Full text linkIn this study, the opinions of teachers on the participation of parents who had children with special needs in their children’s education processes during the pandemic were examined with a phenomenological design, which is one of the qualitative study methods. The study group consisted of 22 special education teachers. The data of the study were collected with a semi-structured interview form that was developed by the researchers, expert opinion was taken and finalized in line with the corrections. In the present study, in which the participation of parents who had children with special needs in the education process of their children in the Covid 19 pandemic was examined from the perspective of teachers, the teachers expressed their opinions about the practices they made to ensure parental participation in the distance education process, the motivations of the parents to participate, the difficulties they faced in ensuring parental participation, the effects of parental participation. When the findings of the study were examined, the teachers guided the family by explaining the materials used to ensure parental participation in the distance education process, providing information on the necessary issues, following the homework assignments and home practices and giving feedback, and evaluating the process. Teachers also ensured the continuity of communication in the family and teacher channel through online applications to facilitate and increase the participation of parents. They encouraged the use of EBA and created complementary activities, ensuring that especially daily life skills continued to be practiced in the home setting with parents’ support
BEST PRACTICES IN INITIAL LITERACY TEACHING
Full text linkIn the current study, is aimed to reveal what kind of practices can be good examples in the first literacy teaching process based on the opinions of primary teachers. For this purpose, the study was designed according to the nested single case design, one of the qualitative research designs. The study group of the study is composed of eighteen primary teachers selected by using the criterion sampling method. A standardized open-ended interview form was used as a data collection tool, and the obtained data were analyzed using content analysis. According to the results obtained, the primary school teachers are of the opinion that including games and materials necessary for these games, using digital platforms related to literacy, doing dictation exercises, rhyme reciting, teaching with rhythm and music, creating stories and regular reading activities in the classroom are useful in the initial literacy teaching process. Outside the classroom, it was determined that they found practices such as making children play in the schoolyard, ensuring parental support, giving less homework, using WEB 2.0 tools, recommending mobile literacy applications and writing exercises with natural materials. The primary teachers made suggestions to increase the quality of the initial literacy teaching process, such as using gamification, giving greater importance to practice, creating positive emotions in parents and children, and taking into account the developmental characteristics of children
INFLUENCE OF FARM SIZE AND ACCESS TO FUNDS ON UPTAKE OF IMPROVED PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES IN AVOCADO (PERSEA AMERICANA) FARMING, KENYA
Full text linkThe study was carried out to evaluate influence of economic factors on uptake of avocado improved production technologies by small scale farmers to increase yields. The study was carried out in Kisii and Nyamira counties region, Kenya.The general objective of the study is to improve avocado production in the study region. The specific objective is to evaluated influence of farmer’s economic factors; farm size and access to finance on upake of the production technologies, respectively. Reduced avocado yields in the region could be due to low uptake of improved production technologies by small scale farmers. The study hypothesised that the low uptake could be due to chance and there is no significant influence of the farmer’s economic factors; farm size and access to funds on the uptake. Descriptive survey research design was used. Stratified and purposive sampling procedures and Morgan’s table of sample size determination were applied in chosing of respondents. There was one sub-county purposively sampled from each of the 4 agroecological zones in the region for study area. Thus from 4 sub counties with 1,211 house holds, a sample of 291 respondents was accessed using Morgan’s table. Reliable structured questionnaires with Cronbach Alpha, α=0.724 were used to collect field data from 291 small scale avocado farmers.The data was analysed using statistical package for social sciences (SSP) computer software. Descriptive, analysis of variance, least significant difference and regression outputs were obtained. Results show that influence of farmer’s farm size of more than 3 acres and access of funds from formal employment make significant difference and have positive correlation with uptake of avocado improved production technologies, respectively. Farmer’s access of funds from banks or SACCOs does not have a significant influence on uptake of the avocado production technologies. Land subdivsion among small scale farmers should be discouraged and and affordable credit sources for them considered, respectively for increased uptake of avocado improved production technologie
THE CORRELATION BETWEEN MEDIA LITERACY AND GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP SKILLS OF PRE-SERVICE SOCILA STUDIES TEACHERS
Full text linkThe study aims to investigate the global citizenship and media literacy skills of pre-service social studies teachers based on various variables and determine the correlation between media literacy and global citizenship skills. The study was conducted with 502 pre-service teachers attending the Social Studies Teaching Department. The study data were collected the media literacy skills scale developed by Erişti & Erdem (2017), and the global citizenship scale adapted in to Turkish language by Şahin & Çermik (2014). The data were analyzed with the Independent Samples T test, ANOVA, Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, and multiple regression analysis. The findings demonstrated that there were no differences between the media literacy skills of pre-service teachers based on gender and daily internet use; however, there were differences based on class level, level of use of digital tools and previous attendance in a media literacy course. It was determined that there were differences between their global citizenship levels based on gender, class level, level of use of digital tools and previous attendance in a media literacy course, and there were no differences based on daily internet use. Other study findings revealed that there was a low, positive and significant correlation between media literacy and global citizenship skills of pre-service teachers
DETERMINATION OF INDIVIDUALS' QUALITY OF LIFE AND EXERCISE HEALTH BELIEF LEVELS
Full text linkThe aim of this research is to determine the quality of life and exercise health belief levels of individuals residing in Sakarya and to determine the differentiation status of quality of life and exercise health belief levels according to their demographic characteristics. The sample of the study consists of 349 people selected by simple random sampling method from these participants. Personal Information Form, The Health Belief Model Scale for Exercise (HBMS-E) and World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale - Short Form were used as data collection tools. In the analysis of the data, the t-test for pairwise comparisons and the One-Way Anova Test for multiple comparisons were applied to examine the differences between the variables. It was determined that the general averages of the participants' exercise health belief scale did not differ according to variables such as gender, marital status, regular exercise, age and income levels (p< 0.005). A statistically significant difference was found between the general averages of the quality of life scale and the age variable (p< 0.05). It was determined that there was a statistically significant difference between the general averages and all sub-dimensions of the exercise health belief scale and the education variable (p< 0.05). As a result, it has been determined that the educational status of the individuals participating in the research has a positive effect on their exercise health belief levels. As the age of individuals increases, it has been thought that it is an important determining factor in their quality of life
THE ORFF SCHULWERK APPROACH AND TEACHER IN MUSIC EDUCATION
No full textThe study aims to reveal the main philosophy of the Orff Schulwerk education approach. This approach is known as the Orff Schulwerk approach/method developed by the German composer Carl Orff. In the Orff Schulwerk approach, which is compatible with an understanding parallel to the constructivist education approach; there is no traditional teacher or a traditional education or traditional teaching approach. In this approach, the teacher has an important role in conveying the knowledge, skills and achievements to the students, in the center of education, in the structuring and managing the whole process. Although the student is at the center of learning, the teacher has the mission of being an important guide in the process of structuring this learning. In this study, the roles attributed to the teacher by the Orff Schulwerk approach are discussed with the necessary explanations and examples. In the study, the survey model was preferred as the research method. It is aimed to reveal the main philosophy, starting point, method, instruments of the Orff Schulwerk method and the roles given to the teacher during the implementation of all these parameters. For this purpose, the relevant studies in the literature so far are discussed, and some suggestions are put forward via interpreting the results in the light of these related studies