{"title":"Turkish Adaptation of the Berkeley Parenting Self-Efficacy Scale Revised (BPSE-R)","authors":"Tulin Guler Yildiz, F. Şahin, G. Haktanir","doi":"10.30786/JEF.778666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30786/JEF.778666","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to adapt the Berkeley Parenting Self-Efficacy Scale Revised (BPSE-R) to Turkish. The scale is composed of two subscales, parental strategies and child outcomes, and includes 18 items. In the process of adapting the scale and examining its reliability and validity, 354 mothers of preschool children were selected through convenience sampling. After translation-and back translation procedures, the BPSE-R was evaluated by field experts, and the scale items were found to be consistent. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the scale has a two-factor structure similar to the original scale. The fit indices obtained for this two-factor structure were found to be at a good level. The total score Cronbach’s alpha internal consistency coefficient was calculated as 0.91, and the test-retest reliability coefficient was calculated as 0.67. Findings demonstrated that the Turkish version of the BPSE-R has adequate psychometric characteristics and can be used in determining the self-efficacy of parents in Turkey with preschool-aged children. The short duration in which the BPSE-R can be applied and its high reliability make it convenient for use in research.","PeriodicalId":41358,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Education and Future-Egitim ve Gelecek Dergisi","volume":"1 1","pages":"13-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42812841","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":"Using Cartoon Discussions for Vocabulary Acquisition in English Language Teaching","authors":"Mary Jane Özkurkudis, Nilay T. Bümen","doi":"10.30786/JEF.656206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30786/JEF.656206","url":null,"abstract":"Action research was carried out in the preparatory program of a foundation university to examine the effectiveness of cartoon discussions in vocabulary acquisition. Students were shown cartoon videos based on the theme of the textbook unit and were asked to answer the guiding questions including the target vocabulary implicitly or explicitly. Students were divided into randomly selected groups and were asked to complete a task using the vocabulary acquired through the learning management system. The students (n=19) were given a pre-and post-test with words that they were supposed to learn during the eight-week process. The tests were assessed by three different teachers (the W-coefficient was found as .944 for inter-rater reliability) using a pre-prepared rubric by the researchers. To evaluate students’ perceptions, at the end of the process, students were given a questionnaire. Findings revealed that the post-test results of the students, who acquired vocabulary through cartoon discussion and practiced collaboratively through the learning management system, were significantly higher compared to their pre-test results. Students expressed positive views concerning this method in the questionnaire applied. Acquisition of vocabulary through cartoon discussions was found effective and was well-received by students.","PeriodicalId":41358,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Education and Future-Egitim ve Gelecek Dergisi","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43340375","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":"Decision-making as a Predictor of Problem-solving Skills in 5-6-year-old Children","authors":"Serpil Pekdoğan, E. Akgül","doi":"10.30786/JEF.635246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30786/JEF.635246","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this study is to analyze decision-making skills as a predictor of problem-solving abilities in children aged 5-6 years. The sample set was comprised of 124 children ages 5-6 years in pre-schools in the mid Black Sea region in Turkey. Personal information forms, the Problem-Solving Ability Scale, and the Decision-Making Skill Assessment Scale—Children’s Form were used in the study. In the analysis of data obtained from the study, Pearson’s product-moment correlation coefficient was used in order to determine the relationship between variables, and multiple regression analysis was used in order to determine the predictor capacities of independent and dependent variables. According to results of the study, determination, independent decision-making, and feelings in decision-making—the tested categories of decision-making skills—are predictors of problem-solving abilities, hesitation in decision-making has not been acknowledged to be a significant factor in predicting problem-solving abilities.","PeriodicalId":41358,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Education and Future-Egitim ve Gelecek Dergisi","volume":"1 1","pages":"25-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42721399","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 Bullying","authors":"İ. Hancı, Selen ÖZAKAR AKÇA","doi":"10.30786/jef.691717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30786/jef.691717","url":null,"abstract":"WHY DO BULLIES ACT THAT WAY? Most bullies are looking for attention and trying to make themselves feel more important. Bullies may feel that bullying makes them feel powerful or in control of other students. Many bullies have seen violence in their own communities or at home, such as having seen their parents in a physical fight. Many bullies have been bullied themselves, and some have experienced physical or sexual abuse.","PeriodicalId":41358,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Education and Future-Egitim ve Gelecek Dergisi","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47421457","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":"Investigating the Impact of Long-term Professional development through Teacher Evaluation","authors":"Özlem Oktay, A. Eryılmaz","doi":"10.30786/jef.541791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30786/jef.541791","url":null,"abstract":"Educational reform efforts support professional development (PD) programs for teachers as a means to establishing possible outcomes that may affect changing teacher practices, student learning, and impact on economic and educational foundations. PD programs require evaluation in order to appraise their effectiveness, and seeking participant opinion following program implementation is one such valid method. The aim of the current study is to determine in-service physics teachers’ evaluation about the impact of a long-term PD program. Qualitative research methodology was employed in this study. Research was conducted with seven teachers, with data collected through a workshop session evaluation checklist (WSEC) and a PD program evaluation interview protocol (PDEIP). Interviews were audio-recorded and then responses to each question transcribed. According to the WSEC data, all sessions broadly reached their aims. The session which teachers considered the least contributive to their developmental gain was on the topic of “Misconception.” The PDEIP results showed that teachers used more student-centered methods and more varied teaching materials in their lessons following their participation in the PD program. Following the PD program, some teachers reportedly started using placement assessment.","PeriodicalId":41358,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Education and Future-Egitim ve Gelecek Dergisi","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46336491","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":"Preschool Teachers’ Informal Learning Behaviors","authors":"Murat Bartan","doi":"10.30786/jef.569455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30786/jef.569455","url":null,"abstract":"Informal learning is the primary feature that transforms educational activities into lifelong learning. Informal learning refers to people’s discovering new things and improving their experience in everyday life. That is, it refers to learning outside the classroom. Teachers' informal learning styles are thought of as ways in which they overcome their deficiencies while continuing their profession. This study aims to reveal preschool teachers’ informal learning behaviors in their workplaces. Thus, it is a descriptive survey study. The study group was selected through simple random sampling. The participants include 117 preschool teachers working in Kutahya province of Turkey in the 2018-2019 academic year. The study showed that the most frequently employed informal learning activity by preschool teachers is “search the internet” while the least employed one is “consult to an online community that you are a member of”. Focusing on informal learning activities of information technologies teachers in their workplaces. An overall evaluation of environmental inhibitors to informal learning of preschool teachers shows that “lack of free time” affects the teachers most while “lack of monetary rewards” affects them least. An overall evaluation of personal characteristics that enhance informal learning for preschool teachers shows that “love of learning” affects teachers’ involvement in informal learning activities most while “initiative” has the least effect on informal learning activities.","PeriodicalId":41358,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Education and Future-Egitim ve Gelecek Dergisi","volume":"1 1","pages":"17-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46083235","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":"Science Teachers’ Self-efficacy in Instruction and Self-efficacy in Student engagement across Estonia, Japan, and Turkey","authors":"Eren Ceylan","doi":"10.30786/jef.751536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30786/jef.751536","url":null,"abstract":"Self-efficacy of science teachers has attracted many researcher interest since its association with teachers’ quality of instruction, teachers’ job satisfaction, and student’s achievement and motivation. Therefore, it is very crucial to investigate the factors that affect science teacher’s self-efficacy beliefs such as the components of school climate, the indicators of sources of self-efficacy, and teachers’ background characteristics. In this respect, this study was carried out to reveal the effect of a set of variables such as professional collaboration among teachers, teacher-student relation, disciplinary climate, needs for professional development in subject matter and pedagogy, workplace well-being and stress, experience of teachers, and gender of teachers on science teachers’ self-efficacy in instruction and self-efficacy in student engagement in Estonia, Japan, and Turkey. The variables of this study were gathered from the TALIS 2018. Multiple Logistic Regression was run to estimate the science teachers’ odds of having high self-efficacy in instruction and in student engagement across three countries. The results revealed that whereas significant odds ratios were yielded for some of variables related to school climate, sources of self-efficacy and teachers’ backgrounds, the magnitudes of the odds ratios show some variations across the countries.","PeriodicalId":41358,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Education and Future-Egitim ve Gelecek Dergisi","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42034511","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":"A Study on Inclusive Education in Turkey","authors":"Tamer Sari, F. Nayır, Ü. Kahraman","doi":"10.30786/jef.642954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30786/jef.642954","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this research is to examine inclusive education research and to guide applications and research according to the results obtained. Within the framework of this aim, the studies carried out in the field of inclusive education in Turkey were systematically examined. Articles published in national and international refereed journals in English or Turkish between 2009-2019 were included in the research The research is qualitative research in which the studies are examined according to the publication year, publication language, subject, research design, the field of the researchers and the scope of the articles. The data of the study were collected through document review. In this study, it has been concluded that the studies about inclusive education have started to increase in recent years, generally, qualitative research methods are used and more specifically, researchers in special education field have made inclusive education studies. When the articles were examined in terms of scope, it was seen that the majority of the studies were on attitude and descriptive studies. At this point, it can be said that the priority of the studies related to inclusive education in Turkey is not to produce theoretical knowledge or to create the infrastructure of new studies by examining the studies done. In the studies carried out, studies that reveal the opinions, attitudes and perceptions of the participants regarding inclusive education were more prominent. In order to contribute to both national and international literature, it would be useful to conduct further research on theoretical and literature research and to plan experimental research to reveal the effectiveness of inclusive education-related practices. Similar studies will be conducted in different countries and the comparison of the findings will contribute to the literature in terms of revealing the international trend.","PeriodicalId":41358,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Education and Future-Egitim ve Gelecek Dergisi","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42660856","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":"ADVICES ON BUDGET MODELS FOR EQUALITY IN HIGH SCHOOLS: THE CASE OF TURKEY","authors":"Ece Özdoğan Özbal, Kasım Karakütük","doi":"10.30786/jef.732197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30786/jef.732197","url":null,"abstract":"The schools' budgets and the management of budgets is important for the effective maintenance of schools. School budgets are an important tool for ensuring equality within and among schools. In this study which aims to assert a suggestion on budget management model providing equity and decreasing problems, detecting different income and expense relationships in the school's budgets, the associational status of incomes and expenses of 1180 high schools in Turkey has been examined and the views of 60 school members (school principal, teacher, student, parents, school parent association member) about the budget management model have been evaluated. In the study, it was determined that there was a significant relationship between high school budgets and school-parent association budget of the school and the intangible right, movable property, maintenance and repair expenses. While high school principals define the ideal budget model as a model in which the budget is provided by the state and they have a more effective role, other school members consider the budget must be comprised of the contributions of individuals and different institutions other than the state, and different school members also participate in the budget management process in addition to the school principal.","PeriodicalId":41358,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Education and Future-Egitim ve Gelecek Dergisi","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47096209","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}
Mustafa Çetin, H. Ö. Demircan, Ezgi Şenyurt, Aysun Ata Aktürk
{"title":"A Way towards Gender Equity in STEM Education: A Science Fair Analysis","authors":"Mustafa Çetin, H. Ö. Demircan, Ezgi Şenyurt, Aysun Ata Aktürk","doi":"10.30786/jef.650246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30786/jef.650246","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41358,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Education and Future-Egitim ve Gelecek Dergisi","volume":"107 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69602890","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}