{"title":"The Opinions of Students toward Curriculum of Distance Education Non- Thesis Master","authors":"Ö. F. Tutkun, DUYGU GÜR ERDOĞAN, Z. Demirtaş","doi":"10.15345/IOJES.2014.02.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15345/IOJES.2014.02.005","url":null,"abstract":"The main aim of the study is to evaluate the functionality of curriculum Distance Education Nonthesis Master according to students’ opinions. Based on the main aim of the research, the subproblems are how much teaching-learning process is reached its objectives and what the benefits, quality, and gains of the Distance Education Non-thesis Master are according to students’ opinions. The study group of the research was consisted of 23 students. Research method is triangulation method. For quantitative data “Non- thesis Master’s Program Evaluation Questionnaire” which was developed by researchers. For qualitative data structured interview was used. The following results were obtained: 1- The quality of the program is high. 2- The contribution of the program concentrated mostly on increasing of the student perspective. 3- The students enrolled in the program for the reason of improving themselves. 4- There is no meaningful difference between the quality and gains of the program and the causes of the enrollment in the program in terms of gender, marital status, workplace, age, current status and length of work. 5- The most advantageous feature of the program is that there is no time and place limitation. The most disadvantageous feature is that the program is superficial and it does not give a chance to face-to-face interaction. 6- The participants’ views on the expectation and satisfaction level are the increase of educational qualification and gaining more than the expectations. 7- The contributions of the program to the participants are the increase of teaching profession and the increase of the interest to the field.","PeriodicalId":358961,"journal":{"name":"International Online Journal of Educational Sciences","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130436852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examination of Leisure Motivation and Students to Participate in Leisure Activities in Terms of Various Variables","authors":"Fehmi Çalik","doi":"10.15345/IOJES.2014.02.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15345/IOJES.2014.02.010","url":null,"abstract":"Positive use of leisure time has many personal and social benefits. The approaches of students studying in secondary schools and high schools to use of leisure time is very important depending on the fact that leisure time of students is quite more at that period of life. Personal Information Form and Leisure Motivation Scale (LMS) were applied to a total of 493 students of which 296 were from Istanbul and 197 from Bursa consisting of 244 male high school and secondary school students (49.5%) and 249 females (50.5%). The personal opinions of students who participated in this questionnaire about leisure activities and facilities are not satisfactory. As significant differences were found between amotivation (t=2.856; P>0.01), and external regulation (t= 5.416; P 0.05), 'knowledge' (F=7.794; P>0.05), 'amotivation' (F= 5.341; P>0.05), 'introjected regulation' (F= 3.198; P>0.05) and 'identified regulation' (F= 4.581; P>0.05) according to the findings of the study.","PeriodicalId":358961,"journal":{"name":"International Online Journal of Educational Sciences","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129658595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"School Children's Happiness Inventory: The Validity and Reliability Study*","authors":"Bulent Baki Telef","doi":"10.15345/IOJES.2014.01.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15345/IOJES.2014.01.013","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to carry out the validity and the reliability study of the School Children’s Happiness Inventory. 358 Elementary school students, 195 (55%) of which were female and 163 (45%) male, participated in the research. The School Children’s Happiness Inventory, Depression Scale for Children and Scale of Positive and Negative Experience were used as data collection instruments in the research. For the validity study of the inventory, structure validity and criterion dependent validity were checked. Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated to identify reliability. At the end of the exploratory factor analysis carried out in order to determine the factor structure of the inventory, the inventory was composed of two factors, as is present in its original form. According to the confirmatory factor analysis, the fit indexes of the scale were determined to be at the acceptable level. At the end of the criterion dependent validity study, it was seen that there was a negatively significant relationship between the School Children’s Happiness Inventory and depression and negative experiences, and a positively significant relationship between the inventory and the positive experiences. At the end of the reliability study, it was seen that Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of the inventory was quite high. As a result of this validity and reliability study, it can be said that the inventory is a valid and reliable assessment instrument for evaluating the happiness of schoolchildren.","PeriodicalId":358961,"journal":{"name":"International Online Journal of Educational Sciences","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130053157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}