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Views of Teachers and Principals for Intellectual and Developmental Disabled Students in Quarantine
Get PDFThe Covid-19 pandemic affected all areas of life, including the education system. Extraordinary conditions induced by the pandemic necessitated a sudden transition to distance education, which had significant effects on students, parents, and teachers. While all students were negatively affected by this development, the difficulties experienced by students with developmental disabilities were different from their peers with typical development. It has been reported that the individuals with developmental disabilities experienced the highest difficulty in the management of the negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, and their needs were primarily ignored in distance education. The current study was conducted with a phenomenological and qualitative approach to investigate the related data in depth. The study participants included 10 special education teachers and 10 special education school principals. The study findings revealed that it was extremely difficult to conduct special education online%253B schools were not only a learning environment for the students with developmental disabilities, but also a sphere of socialization
Designing Technological Content Curriculum Materials Supported by Logger Pro%253A An Action Research
Get PDFThis study aimed to develop teacher guide material for students who are uninterested in physics lessons in high schools. In this context, activities in which measurements are made with Logger Pro sensors, which are computer-applied with the innovative technology in 10th-grade optics subjects, have been developed. The study was carried out with 134 students at the school where the researcher taught in the spring semester of the 2019-2020 academic year. In the research, action research method was used. The action researcher personally intervened in the process at every stage of the implementation process to ensure that the teaching material became applicable. Interview, observation and student documents were used to test the hypotheses of the research. The research process was carried out in six stages%253A Logger pro-supported experimental application, simulation application, analogy application, associating with daily life, modeling and evaluation. Within the scope of action research, qualitative and quantitative methods were used together. Based on research findings%253B it has been revealed that the developed material is applicable in all types of schools where the 10th-grade physics course is taught, is understandable, overlaps with the content of the curriculum, and has an evaluation competence that can reflect the learning outcomes of the curriculum. As a result of the applications, the students%252339%253B group success, understanding levels and application skills in the process improved positively in the five observation steps, but the attitudes and motivations of the students with high academic achievement were negatively affected. The reason for this is that it is seen as a waste of time for successful students to devote too much time to students with low academic success and learning together in order to advance group success. It was determined that the motivation and interest of the students reached the highest levels in the stages where the contents of the studies were supported by simulation and video
The Effect of the Career Psychoeducation Program on the Career Decision Self-Efficacy and Educational Outcome Expectations of Eleventh-Grade Students
Get PDFThis study aimed to examine the effectiveness of a career psychoeducation program developed based on the social cognitive career theory in career decision self-efficacy and educational outcome expectations of eleventh grade students. The study used a quasi-experimental model with a pretest-posttest control group design. The experimental process of the study was designed according to a 2x3 mixed (split-plot) design with a control group including pretest, posttest, and follow-up measurements. This process was carried out with 36 eleventh greleventh grade students, including 18 in experimental and 18 in control groups. The study data were collected using the Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scalendash%253BShort Form and the Educational Outcome Expectations Scale. During the experimental process, an eleven-week career psychoeducation program was carried out in the experimental group, and no intervention was conducted in the control group. As a result of the study, it was found that there was a significant difference in favor of the experimental group students in terms of the mean scores obtained from the career decision self-efficacy and educational outcome expectations and that this difference between the mean scores was also maintained in the follow-up measurements. The findings of the effectiveness of the career psychoeducation program on the career decision self-efficacy and educational outcome expectations of eleventh grade students were discussed in the light of the related literature
The Relationships between the Academic Boredom and Lifelong Learning Tendency
Get PDFIn this study, the relationship between academic boredom and lifelong learning tendency among pre-service teachers was examined. The study also examined whether academic boredom level and lifelong learning tendency differ in terms of perceived academic success and the willingness to engage in lessons. The research group consisted of 448 pre-service teachers, studying at a state university in Turkey. The research was designed as a correlational survey model. In the research, one-dimensional quot%253BLevel of Boredom Scalequot%253B and four-dimensional quot%253BLifelong Learning Tendency Scalequot%253B were used as measurement tools. Research results suggested that statistically, while pre-service teachers%252339%253B self-perception level of success did not significantly affect academic boredom, it affected motivation, perseverance, and lack of regulating learning%253B sub-dimensions of lifelong learning. Also, pre-service teachers%252339%253B willingness to engage in the lesson significantly affected both academic boredom and lifelong learning tendencies. There was no significant relationship between pre-service teachers academic boredom level and their lifelong learning tendency
Evaluation of STEM SOS Model%253A Pre-Service Science Teachers Opinions
No full textThis study aims to evaluate the STEM SOS model based on the opinions of pre-service science teachers. For this aim, the contributions and the challenges of the STEM SOS model to pre-service science teachers were investigated. The participants consisted of 23 pre-service science teachers studying in the 4th grade of science teaching at a state university during the fall term of the 2018-2019 academic year. The descriptive case study design was used for the study%252339%253Bs research method. The implementation was performed in an elective course called New Approaches in Science Teaching, and the implementation process study took nine weeks, two hours a week. Firstly pre-service science teachers were given theoretical knowledge about STEM education and the STEM SOS model and were informed about the purpose of the study. The participants were asked to decide on their project groups of 2-6 people and to perform Level III projects based on the STEM SOS Model by each group in implementation. A open-ended survey form developed by the researcher was used as a data collection tool at the end of the implementation. The data were analyzed by using the content analysis method. As a result, it was determined that the STEM SOS model has many contributions for pre-service science teachers grouped under five categories, such as producing products, satisfaction, developing skills, increasing research interest, and the ability to act with the group. In addition, the study concluded that pre-service science teachers encountered some challenges during the implementation of the STEM SOS model, grouped under three categories as the barriers related to the project, lack of knowledge skills, and disagreement with group mates. In the light of these findings, necessary suggestions were made
Investigation of Secondary School Students%252339%253B Critical Reading Skills and Listening%252FWatching Usage Strategies by Structural Equation Model
No full textThe purpose of this study is to examine secondary school students%252339%253B critical reading skills and listening%252Fwatching strategies in line with different variables, and to determine whether their critical reading skills have an effect on their listening%252Fwatching strategies. The sample of the research consists of 800 students, 380 girls, and 420 boys, in the fall semester of the 2021-2022 academic year. The data of the study were collected using the general survey model, one of the quantitative research methods, and a randomized research design. The research data were obtained with quot%253BCritical Reading Scalequot%253B and quot%253BFrequency of Using Listening%252FWatching Strategies Scalequot%253B. For the assumption of normality, the skewness and kurtosis values of the data were examined. In the analyses, independent groups t-test, single groups ANOVA, Tukey tests, and path analysis (Path) in accordance with structural equation modeling (SEM) were used. The findings of the analyses showed that the variables of gender, class level, education level of the mother and father lead to a significant difference in the total scores of both scales and in the sub-factors of frequency of using listening%252Fwatching strategies. The findings of the path analysis showed that the established model was acceptable, and it was found that students%252339%253B critical reading levels had a significant and positive effect on the level of listening%252Fwatching strategies they used
Views of Preservice Social Studies Teachers regarding the Use of Virtual Tours during the Pandemic
Get PDFThis research aims to determine the views of preservice social studies teachers regarding the use of virtual tours during the pandemic period. The study was carried out with the phenomenology design, one of the qualitative research designs. 20 preservice Social Studies teachers studying at Kutahya Dumlupinar University participated in the study in the 2021-2022 academic year. The criterion sampling method, one of the purposeful sampling types, was used to determine the research group. The criteria were being a preservice social studies teacher and participating in virtual tour application training. The research data were collected with a semi-structured interview form developed by the researchers and analysed with the content analysis technique. As a result of the data analysis, it was seen that the views of the preservice teachers about the virtual tour application were primarily positive. The data obtained from the interviews were divided into six themes%253A informative, persistent and embodied, attractive and entertaining, practical and easy, economic and providing equal opportunity, and negative opinions. The informative theme is divided into two sub-themes as giving preliminary information and explanation
Teaching Locally, Acting Globally%253A The Effect of Pre-Service Teachers Cultural Intelligence Levels on Their Perceptions of Global Citizens
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between cultural intelligence and global citizenship. The study group of the research consisted of 336 pre-service teachers, including pedagogical formation students, selected by a random sampling method from a state university in eastern Turkey, where the immigrant population is dense. Both the quot%253BCultural Intelligence Scalequot%253B and quot%253BGlobal Citizenship Scalequot%253B were used as data collection tools. In order to statistically determine the levels of cultural intelligence and global citizenship by demographic variables, independent samples t-test and one-way ANOVA were employed by the researcher. Likewise, while the Pearson product-moment correlation analysis was implemented to examine the relationships among the variables, multiple regression analysis was used to determine the predictive coefficients between the variables. Based on the research findings, cultural intelligence was positively correlated with global citizenship. The behavioral dimension of cultural intelligence was the best predictor of global competence. Cultural intelligence levels of pre-service teachers seem to have a significant impact on shaping their process of becoming global citizens. If a person could be able to change his or her body language, spoken language, expressions, and behaviors when encountering any person or people from different ethnic groups and identities, this would mean that s%252Fhe is using the behavioral component of cultural intelligence. In this respect, cultural intelligence facilitates being a global citizen and increases adaptation. Therefore, the dimension of cultural intelligence evidently appears to be an essential factor for global citizenship
Development of the General Teaching Principles Scale
Get PDFThe aim of this study is to develop a scale to determine how often secondary school teachers adhere to general teaching principles. For this purpose, 211 teachers who work in secondary education institutions in Yunus Emre District of Manisa Province were included in the research group with the stratified sampling method. The 54-item experimental form of the scale was subjected to expert opinion, and as a result of the analysis, a 50 -item candidate scale was created. In order to determine the construct validity of the General Teaching Principles Scale, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was performed using the geominQ rotation method. Cronbach%252339%253Bs Alpha coefficient was calculated for the reliability index and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was performed to test the accuracy of the structure revealed by EFA. SPSS 26.0 software was used for reliability analysis, Jasp 0.13.1 for Exploratory Factor Analysis and R Studio 1.2.5033 software for Confirmatory Factor Analysis. The results of the validity and reliability studies conducted on teachers working in secondary education show that this developed scale gives valid and reliable results
Curriculum Literacy Levels of English Teachers%253A A Mixed Method Research
No full textThe aim of this study was to investigate the English teachers curriculum literacy levels and their views on the English curriculum. The convergent parallel approach, which is one of the mixed research method, was used in the study. The population of the study consisted of English teachers working in secondary schools and high schools a city in the east of Turkey during 2020-2021 academic year. The sample of the study consisted of 198 English teachers in the quantitative part and 70 in the qualitative part, selected by convenience sampling method. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected simultaneously and analyzed separately. Then, it was tried to present a generalizable and in-depth perspective for the purpose of the study. The quot%253BCurriculum Literacy Scalequot%253B was used to collect quantitative data. The scale consisted of 18 items and three sub-scales%253A knowing the program, planning and implementation. The Cronbachs alpha value of the curriculum literacy scale was .774. An interview form developed by the researcher was used to collect qualitative data. The results revealed that the participants had high levels of curriculum literacy. A significant difference was not found between participants curriculum literacy levels and gender, school type and work experience. The participants stated that the curriculum was sufficient for teaching reading skills, however it was insufficient for teaching speaking skills, that they used games to make the program interesting, and that intensive curriculum was a problem while implementing the program. It was concluded as a result of the study that the participants high level of curriculum literacy levels may increase their curriculum awareness and may contribute to conduct their teaching in a more conscious way