63 research outputs found
Attending to assessment problems of practice during community-centered professional development
No full textMuslu, Nilay/0000-0002-7429-5142WOS: 000470954600017This study focused on problems of practice of science teachers participating in a two-year, community-centered professional development and assessment design program. We examined problems of practice related to assessment. To explore this type of problem of practice, we employed an intrinsic case study approach and a community of practice theoretical lens. Five high school chemistry teachers and eight university personnel acted as participants in the study. In addition to several secondary data sources, the primary data sources included: a) 12 audio recordings of the collaborative meetings (over 28 h), b) 18 video recordings of teachers' assessment practice (over 31 h), and c) 42 discussion board postings online. Three themes emerged based on iterative cycles of analysis for problems of practice for teachers' assessment: 1) meeting students where they are, 2) students who do understand, and 3) the culture of the classroom. Our investigation contributes to the limited literature on ways teachers problematize and refine the enactment of classroom assessment
A study of the relationship between the study process, motivation resources, and motivation problems of nursing students in different educational systems
No full textBackground: The study process is related to students' learning approaches and styles. Motivation resources and problems determine students' internal, external, and negative motivation. Analyzing the study process and motivation of students yields important indications about the nature of educational systems in higher education. Objectives: This study aims to analyze the relationship between the study process, and motivation resources and problems with regard to nursing students in different educational systems in Turkey and to reveal their effects according to a set of variables. Design: This is a descriptive, cross-sectional and correlational study. Settings: Traditional, integrated and problem-based learning (PBL) educational programs for nurses involving students from three nursing schools in Turkey. Participants: Nursing students (n = 330). Methods: The data were collected using the Study Process Questionnaire (R-SPQ-29 and the Motivation Resources and Problems (MRP) Scale. Results: A statistically significant difference was found between the scores on the study process scale, and motivation resources and problems scale among the educational systems. This study determined that the mean scores of students in the PBL system on learning approaches, intrinsic motivation and negative motivation were higher. A positive significant correlation was found between the scales. Conclusions: The study process, and motivation resources and problems were found to be affected by the educational system. This study determined that the PBL educational system more effectively increases students' intrinsic motivation and helps them to acquire learning skills. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Exploring Effectiveness of Classroom Assessments for Students' Learning in High School Chemistry
No full textWOS: 000574233300009New notions of science teaching and learning provide challenges for designing and using classroom assessment. Existing assessments are not effective in assessing and supporting desired science learning because they are not designed to capture and aid such learning (NRC2014; Pellegrino2013). In addition, it is important to evaluate effectiveness of existing and developed classroom assessments and their usage in supporting desired science learning. Newer notions of validity stress that assessment should have a positive impact on learning and teaching; thus, validity and effectiveness of an assessment should be linked to highlight how an assessment supports learning. Therefore, we suggest that just focusing on the assessment itself, or teachers' understanding and implementing of assessment, to investigate effectiveness of classroom assessment will be incomplete. This qualitative study focuses on the effectiveness of the designed tasks and of the implementation, according to the teacher and aims to (1) provide a new approach for evaluating effectiveness of developed chemistry assessments and (2) use this approach to illustrate the effectiveness of co-developed assessments by five high school chemistry teachers. We utilized multiple sources of data, including teacher-generated assessments, teachers' comments on developed assessments, and students' responses. We designed a rubric to analyze effectiveness and validated it with six expert reviewers. Results showed that the assessments mostly aligned with research-informed principles for effective assessments and helped teachers to achieve their intentions. Our study recommends that teachers develop and utilize various types of classroom assessments that achieve their aims through participation in a collaborative project
Local well-posedness and wave breaking results for periodic solutions of a shallow water equation for waves of moderate amplitude
No full textDuruk Mutlubas, Nilay/0000-0003-1160-9236We study the local well-posedness of a periodic nonlinear equation for surface waves of moderate amplitude in shallow water. We use an approach proposed by Kato which is based on semigroup theory for quasi-linear equations. We also show that singularities for the model equation can occur only in the form of wave breaking, in particular surging breakers. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)Turkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu (TUBITAK)The author is grateful to Vienna University for their hospitality and to The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) for their support
Bilimsel sorgulama destekli BİSDEM Projesi etkinlikleri
No full textMevcut etkinlik kitabı sınıf ve fen bilimleri öğretmenlerinin bir mesleki gelişim programı sonucunda, bilimsel sorgulama alanında edindikleri bilgi ve tecrübeler ile tasarladıkları veya uyarladıkları, öğretim programları ile uyumlu fen bilimleri etkinliklerini içermektedir. Sanıyoruz kitabı seçkin kılan en önemli etken de budur
Evliyâ Çelebi‟nin seyahatnâme'sinde görsel sanat eserlerinin tasviri: ekfrastik bir yaklaşım
No full textCataloged from PDF version of article.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 246-257).As a part of the ancient Greek and Roman rhetorical practices, ekphrasis
basically means the verbalisation of a visual object, and it has become a literary tool
in time. Since the description of Achilles‘ shield in Homer‘s İlliad, ekphrasis has
been a frequently used literary practice which writers, historians, art critics apply.
Ekphrasis can be applied as the description of visual art objects through the fictional
forms such as poetry and novel as well as it occurs in the prose concerning history,
art criticism and travelogues; it is studied in order to analyse writer's handling with
the description of the object. Ekphrasis studies enable to capture the writer's
relationship between objectivity and subjectivity, the elements of his/her expressed
subjectivity, through literary tools. This study will examine Evliyâ Çelebi's
"ekphrastic" approach in describing mosques, churches and monasteries, paintings
and sculptures in Seyahatnâme (The Book of Travels), especially focusing on how
the subjective factors determining the writer‘s aesthetic appreciation occur in his
literary practice. What kind of a fictive language does ekphrasis, which is essentially
the act of making the silent image talk, show in Evliyâ Çelebi's representation? What
are the characters of the new images created by this language, which is independent
from the original objects, in other sense the images which Evliyâ created on his own
way? How does the reflection of personal taste and cultural positioning affect
aesthetic view of Evliyâ Çelebi‘s "ekphrastic" narrative? This questioning aims to
observe how the aesthetic view of Seyahatnâme's author takes shape and to be a
model of an approach to put forth the new literary qualities of Seyahatnâme's in the
light of ekphrasis study. The problem of "ekphrasis" enables Seyahatnâme which has
been already a study topic for various social sciences, to be evaluated in the
discipline of fiction more widely. As the issue concerns basically the relationship
between visuality and writing, it would bring a new interdisciplinary approach to
Seyahatnâme studies.by Nilay Kaya
The Readiness of Stakeholders in the Scientific Inquiry-Supported Mentoring Project
No full textThe effectiveness of professional development programs for teachers in Turkey is limited because the programs are not designed to meet individual teacher needs. Although teachers are implementers who perform classroom practices, they are in the role of students in these programs. The project supported by The Scientific and Technological Research Institution of Turkey (TUBITAK) 1001-Grant 220K080 entitled “Designing and Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Scientific Inquiry Supported by Online Mentoring (e-scaffolding) in In-service Teacher Training” aims to examine and evaluate a professional development model. The project involves various strategies, such as mentorship, coaching, peer learning, and collaboration, for prioritizing teachers’ ideas and expectations. This study intends to reveal the readiness of the stakeholders (participating teachers and mentors) in the online mentoring model supported by scientific inquiry as part of the professional development process of teachers. The prominent results of the research are that teachers have positive opinions about the importance of scientific inquiry-based learning and teaching, teachers’ expectations from professional development programs vary by their levels of experience. In conclusion, this study is important in terms of making teachers’ voices heard and designing professional development programs in line with their expectations
Why Teach Physics? Factors That Lead Undergraduate Students To Consider Physics Teaching As A Carrier
No full textHalk kütüphaneleri: Araştırmalar ve Görüşler
No full textThis book which is a compilation of previously published (1989-2013) articles, personal opinions, observations and translations of the author underlines the significance of public libraries. While some of the articles belong to the author himself, the rest are joint works. As public libraries are discussed in all its parts, this book is believed to be an easy accessible and well-coordinated source for researchers
Multiplayer game frameworks for crowd-aware co-design of environment
No full textThis paper proposes two frameworks in the field of Games in Research. • Proposal1 Architectural design decisions stand to benefit by accounting for the presence and activities of human crowds that inhabit these spaces. Computational methods for simulating synthetic crowds provide a cost-effective means of exploring and analyzing the design search space. However, the crowd-aware architectural design is a complicated combinatorial decision process, where small changes in the design solution may affect crowds and their flow patterns in unexpected and potentially unintuitive ways. Existing solutions rely on expert intuition or automation, but are unable to account for much contradicting, and often subjective properties while optimizing designs. A single solution approach may also miss potential design solutions that achieve the desired objective specifications while meetingsubjectivecriteria. Weproposeameansofcombiningthesemethodsinagamified framework. Using our system, “players" (novice users or experts) can rapidly iterate on their designs while soliciting feedback from computer simulations of crowd movement, as well as the designs of previous players. Our approach affords a new way of thinking of the solution space in that it inherently supports competitive co-design and crowdsourced solutions. We evaluate our framework through a user study and demonstrate the potential ii of crowd-aware co-design of environments using simulation guided multiplayer games. • Proposal2 Games in research is a modern trend in the world of research. Games are being used to simulate, monitor and test occurrences in reality. However, Game development knowledge is the initial requirement to use games in research either in any non-technical or technical field. Besides, availability of existing games suited to research is very meager. Also, attracting and reaching out to enough users for proper user study is a difficult task. We propose a connected real-time website and desktop-based game application. The website is themed as a social network which will help connect researchers with gamers and keep them updated. Our application also allows a researcher to choose and modify a few configuration parameters to change the game according to his requirement as well as dedicated ownership to the collected data. The game application provides a robust Massive Multiple Online game environment for a smooth and exciting gaming experience to involve gamers to contribute to research.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Nilay Chakrabort
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