{"title":"Metaphoric Perceptions of Teachers and Pre-Service Teachers about 4+4+4 Education System.","authors":"Necdet Aykaç, Hilal Bilgin, Hasret Kabaran","doi":"10.12973/ijese.2016.502a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12973/ijese.2016.502a","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to determine the perceptions of teachers and pre-service teachers about 4+4+4 education systemvia the metaphors they have developed.In this study, the opinions of teachers and pre-service teachers are described with qualitative approach. The participants of the study are 137 primary school 1st grade teachers, working in Mugla in 2012-2013 academic year, and 116 4th grade students, studying at Primary School Teaching Department in the Faculty of Education in MuglaSıtkıKocman University. In the data collection process, teachers and pre-service teachers were required to complete this sentence: “When the characteristics of 4+4+4 are considered, 4+4+4 education system is like ............, because ..............”. In the analysis of the data, content analysis tecnique, one of the qualitative analysis methods, was applied. The perceptions of teachers were separated into 9 categories according to the metaphors teachers and pre-service teachers created about 4+4+4 education system and both the statements mostly used by teachers and pre-service teachers are provided for these categories. These categories are “a continuously changing structure; a system all of whose parts have deficiencies; an application without any preparation and infrastructure work; uncertainty and complication; an application whose future is dark; a useless and inappropriate system; a forcing and imposing application; a graded and systematical structure (positive); meaningless(cannot resemble anything).","PeriodicalId":91705,"journal":{"name":"International journal of environmental and science education : IJESE","volume":"29 1","pages":"881-891"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89777045","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":"Human Resources Management in Educational Faculties of State Universities in Turkey.","authors":"S. Öztürk","doi":"10.12973/ijese.2016.503a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12973/ijese.2016.503a","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to evaluate the human resources management in the faculties of education of state universities in Turkey within the context of Human Resources Management Principles. The study population consisted of 40 academic members in the faculties of education of 20 different state universities and 10 academic unit administrators at different positions. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed using descriptive and content analysis. The findings showed that the academicians generally consider that these principles are not sufficiently taken into consideration during administrative implementations. It was found that human resources management is shaped according to the administrative cultures of faculties, personal characteristics, democratic attitudes and understandings of the administrators, and consciousness and awareness of the administered people and therefore significant differences exist between the faculties; and human resources management culture has not developed at all in many faculties.","PeriodicalId":91705,"journal":{"name":"International journal of environmental and science education : IJESE","volume":"7 1","pages":"931-948"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89762837","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":"An Academic Survey Concerning High School and University Students' Attitudes and Approaches to Problem Solving in Chemistry.","authors":"M. Duran","doi":"10.12973/ijese.2016.407a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12973/ijese.2016.407a","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is to reveal differences between attitudes and approaches of students from different types of high school and the first grade of university towards problem solving in chemistry. For this purpose, the scale originally developed by Mason and Singh (2010) to measure students’ attitude and approaches towards problem solving in physics (AAPS), was adapted for chemistry. The Attitudes and Approaches to Chemistry Problem Solving (AACPS) scale included Likert-type items and was conducted with 552 students from science (2), regular (2), and vocational (2) high schools, plus one university. No statistically significant difference were found among high schools, but there was between high school and university students, and between female and male students in terms of their attitudes and approaches towards problem solving in chemistry. University students demonstrated more expert-like attitudes towards problem solving, and science and regular high school students were similarly expertlike, while the vocational high school students were rather novice-like. The results obtained through the AAPS physics attitude scale conducted in the same sample group were compared with results of the chemistry scale. Variances between these attitudes and approaches towards problem solving in both chemistry and physics were analyzed and some suggestions made.","PeriodicalId":91705,"journal":{"name":"International journal of environmental and science education : IJESE","volume":"61 Suppl 1","pages":"819-837"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91371751","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":"High School Science Teachers’ Views on Science Process Skills","authors":"Nejla Gultepe","doi":"10.12973/ijese.2016.348a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12973/ijese.2016.348a","url":null,"abstract":"The current research is a descriptive study in which a survey model was used. The research involved chemistry (n=26), physics (n=27), and biology (n=29) teachers working in Science High Schools and Anatolian High Schools in Turkey. An inventory that consisted of seven questions was designed to ascertain teachers’ think about the importance of science process skills in teaching science, to identify the frequency of these skills and the problems teachers encounter during their practice in class, and to specify their identification levels on these skills. The results of the study showed that these skills in general have a positive effect on teaching science and that the in-class activities promote conceptual learning. Most of the teachers participated in the study argued that these skills can only be gained effectively through laboratory activities in which both teachers and students engage; and almost all of them thought that centralexamination-based teaching poses a great obstacle. Teachers are more successful in identifying skills of observing, predicting, experimenting, and inferencing than other skills.","PeriodicalId":91705,"journal":{"name":"International journal of environmental and science education : IJESE","volume":"1 1","pages":"779-800"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76312725","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":"Analysis of the Problems Encountered in Education of Teachers and Solution Recommendations in Accordance with the Opinions of Faculty of Education Students","authors":"Gulsun Sahan","doi":"10.12973/ijese.2016.409a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12973/ijese.2016.409a","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to put forth the problems encountered in education of teachers and solution recommendations in accordance with the opinions of faculty of education students. Within this framework, the opinions of 182 first grade students from the departments of classroom, social sciences, science and mathematics teaching at Bartin University, Faculty of Education were obtained in writing through questionnaires which list open ended questions. The opinions then were sorted by their frequencies and the findings obtained were interpreted. According to the students, one year internship period for the new teachers is insufficient, the profession of teaching is held in low regard by the society, faculties of education is crowded, and applied courses are offered insufficiently and these are among the problems encountered in teacher education. On the other hand, offering hands-on (applied) education at the faculties of education, requiring oral interviews in addition to written KPSS examination (Public Personnel Selection Examination) in teacher assignments, accepting students to the faculties of education by applying aptitude, knowledge and skills tests, ensuring those who love the profession of teaching works at this field and offering courses which aim increasing school experience of the teacher candidates for longer periods are listed among the measures that need to be taken by the students.","PeriodicalId":91705,"journal":{"name":"International journal of environmental and science education : IJESE","volume":"10 1","pages":"1055-1064"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88085383","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 Principals' Reflective Leadership Skills through the Eyes of Science and Mathematics Teachers.","authors":"Alpay Ersozlu","doi":"10.12973/ijese.2016.349a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12973/ijese.2016.349a","url":null,"abstract":"Reflective leadership plays a key role in successfully maintaining the operation in organizations and in achieving their far and near objectives. In order to enable this success in school organizations, each employee in the school should make an effort for development and effective operation of the school organization. A reflective school leader is effective in enabling and sustaining this success by utilizing their reflective leadership traits. The aim of this research is to determine the reflective leadership levels of school principals by science and math teachers’ viewpoints. Sample of the research is composed of a total of 147 volunteer teachers 68 of whom serve as science teachers and 79 as math teachers in high schools in Corum city center. Data have been collected through “reflective leadership” scale adapted to Turkish language by Ersozlu and Castelli (2016). According to the research findings, it is understood that science and math teachers consider school principals’ reflective leadership traits to be at middle level. With regard to gender, age, branch and years of experience; no difference is found in teachers’ perceptions on reflective leadership of school principals.","PeriodicalId":91705,"journal":{"name":"International journal of environmental and science education : IJESE","volume":"25 1","pages":"801-808"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78952233","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":"Challenges Faced by Prospective Teachers in Universities and Solution Proposals.","authors":"Erkan Kıral","doi":"10.12973/ijese.2016.408a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12973/ijese.2016.408a","url":null,"abstract":"The number of universities in Turkey has reached to 193, among which 72 of them have their own faculties of education. The problem of quantity in teacher training seems to be eliminated; however, training qualified teachers has become a prioritized issue. Many responsibilities fall to universities in training qualified teachers including determining and solving the educational challenges of prospective teachers. Hence, this study elicits the challenges the prospective teachers face at the universities and their solution proposals. In this context, an open-ended question was raised to 140 prospective teachers that is selected with convenience sampling method. Sources of challenges and their respective solution proposals for prospective teachers are thematized under administration, instructor, physical, democracy and so on. The most common challenge they encounter is related with physical facilities and the least is related with democracy. Eliminating these challenges based on the solutions provided will contribute to training qualified teachers.","PeriodicalId":91705,"journal":{"name":"International journal of environmental and science education : IJESE","volume":"34 1","pages":"839-850"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76849807","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}
Medine Baran, A. Maskan, Mukadder Baran, Azmi Türkan M. İkbal Yetişir
{"title":"Examining High School Students' Attitudes towards Context Based Learning Approach with Respect to Some Variables.","authors":"Medine Baran, A. Maskan, Mukadder Baran, Azmi Türkan M. İkbal Yetişir","doi":"10.12973/ijese.2016.501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12973/ijese.2016.501","url":null,"abstract":"The present study aimed at determining and examining high school first, second, third and fourth class grade students’ attitudes towards context based learning approach with respect to the variables of gender, class grade and school. The study was carried out with a total of 5325 high school students in Turkey (n1(first class grade)=1509, n2(second class grade)1265, n3(third class grade)=1140, n4(fourth class grade)=544; none: 867 Female: 2450, Male: 2866; none:9). In the study, Student Context based Approach Attitude Scale made up of 18 items, whose reliability and validity were calculated, was used as data collection tool. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive analysis, independent samples t-test and ANOVA found in the package software of SPSS 16. The results revealed that the students’ general attitude mean score was 3.01 out of 5. . The results obtained in the study are thought to be important as they not only help determine high school students’ attitudes towards context based learning approach and identify the influence of certain variables on their attitudes but also cover but also cover all the class grades of high school. Moreover, it should be determined to how context based learning approach is applied in educational institutions by the governments.","PeriodicalId":91705,"journal":{"name":"International journal of environmental and science education : IJESE","volume":"24 1","pages":"851-865"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91308453","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":"Determination of the Fate of Dissolved Organic Nitrogen in the Three Wastewater Treatment Plants, Jordan.","authors":"M. Wedyan, A. Harahsheh, Esam Qnaisb","doi":"10.12973/ijese.2016.344a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12973/ijese.2016.344a","url":null,"abstract":"This research aimed to assess the composition of total dissolved nitrogen (TDN) species, particularly dissolved organic nitrogen (DON), over the traditional wastewater treatment operations in three biological nutrient removal (BNR) wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in Jordan. It had been found that the DON percentage was up to 30% of TDN within the effluent plant;which restricted the plant’s ability to eliminate nitrogen to minimal amounts. Effluent DON levels from the three plants varied from 11.7 to 34.8 mg N/L and would not fluctuate substantially, even if there seemed to be a substantial difference inside influent organic nitrogen levels. The main transforming of DON and biodegradable dissolved organic nitrogen (BDON( along the treatment train had been noticed in the aerobic method. More than 70% of effluent DON was consisting of hydrophilic materials, which promote algal growth. The research presented significant information for foreseeable future improving of WWTPs or the choice of DON elimination techniques to satisfy additional challenging nitrogen release limits.","PeriodicalId":91705,"journal":{"name":"International journal of environmental and science education : IJESE","volume":"107 1","pages":"767-777"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73090856","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}
A. Yumusak, S. Özbaş, Seyit Ahmet Sargin Furkan Baltaci
{"title":"An Investigation for the Future Educators' Attitudes towards the Environmental Issues in the Context of Ecocentrism and Anthropocentrism","authors":"A. Yumusak, S. Özbaş, Seyit Ahmet Sargin Furkan Baltaci","doi":"10.12973/ijese.2016.401a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12973/ijese.2016.401a","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, it was revealed that the factors influencing the future educators' attitudes towards the environment. The survey was conducted between 2013-2014, on the freshman and the senior students studying in two different education faculties providing training within the boundaries of Turkish Cypriot. As a result, it has been found that persons who take any course related to environment, become a member of any environmental organizations, join any environmental activities, and follow any publication related to the environment by throughout education life contribute the formation of environmental protection awareness for them. The majority of the participants had an ecocentric attitude. To be increased of the environmental awareness for teacher candidates studying in math and social sciences, the necessity and importance of a number of environmental activities performed were appeared. The teacher candidates, especially having with the environmental protection sensibility will shed light on the future will provide significant contributions in the conversion of this consciousness to a sustainable structure on behalf of the awareness to prevent disconnection between generations.","PeriodicalId":91705,"journal":{"name":"International journal of environmental and science education : IJESE","volume":"70 6 1","pages":"603-612"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77465000","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}