Classroom Teaching Department Research Articles

The Investigation of the Effects of Authentic Assessment Approach on Prospective Teachers’ Problem-Solving Skills

<p class="apa">The<strong> </strong>purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of authentic assessment, an approach used in Scientific Research Methods, on problem solving skills of prospective classroom teachers. The participant groups of the study consisted of sophomore prospective teachers who study at Dicle University in the Ziya Gökalp Education Faculty Classroom Teaching Department during 2013-2014 academic spring term. The two classrooms in the department were randomly assigned as experimental group (Group B) and control group (Group A). The experimental group was given authentic tasks and asked to do them group work. The authentic tasks fulfilled by prospective teachers were analyzed in accordance with the authentic assessment approach. Authentic assessment tools such as self-assessment, group assessment, portfolio assessment, teacher-peer assessment, weekly performance assessment, and student journals were used in the experimental group. Meanwhile, control group activities were based on a subject-oriented curriculum design and teacher-centered traditional practices and assessment were carried out. Methods like verbal lectures, discussions, and question-answers were used. In addition, the evaluation process was conducted on the mid-term exam essay in traditional sense. While the pre-test and post-test results of the experimental group indicate a statistically significant positive difference for the post-test, the difference between pre- and post-test results for the control groups were not found to be statistically significant. Moreover, a comparative analysis of adjusted post-test results based on pre-test results of experimental and control groups indicated a statistically significant positive difference in favor of experimental group.</p>

An Investigation Of The Relationship Between Students’ Views On Homework And Their Learning Styles

The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between students’ views on homework and their learning styles. The study follows a descriptive survey model. It is also an example of descriptive study in relational screening model. Target population is all first, second, third, and fourth year students who are enrolled in Çukurova University Primary School Classroom Teaching Department. The participants are 443 students who volunteered to fill in the data collection forms used in the study. Of the participants, 90 were first year, 103 were second year, 140 were third year, and 110 were fourth year students. 275 of the students participating in the study were female (62.1%) and 168 were male (37.9%). The data were collected through “Homework Attitudes Scale” developed by Gündüz (2005), Kolb’s Learning Styles Inventory (LSI) which was first examined for its applicability in Turkey by Aşkar and Akkoyunlu (1993), “Homework Purpose Scale”, “Homework Management Scale” and “Personal Information Form” developed by the researcher. No instruments were used to measure students’ academic success levels; their academic success was identified according to the overall mean score obtained from the scores they received from all lessons. Findings show that 141 students (31.8%) preferred assimilating learning style while 133 students (30%) preferred converging learning style. Dominant learning style was found to differ according to grade level and grade point average. The difference in terms of homework attitudes, homework purpose, and homework management scale mean scores was in favour of mostly students who have converging learning style. Besides, there was a significant difference in terms of doing homework on time in favour of students who have converging learning style, and there was a significant difference in terms of coming to class without homework in favour of students who have diverging learning style.

THE CASE OF USING TECHNOLOGY BY CANDIDATE TEACHERS OF MATHEMATICS IN CLASSROOMS* 1 SINIF ÖĞRETMENİ ADAYLARININ MATEMATİK ÖĞRETİMİ BAĞLAMINDA TEKNOLOJİDEN YARARLANMA DURUMLARI ПОЛОЖЕНИЕ ПО ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЮ ТЕХНОЛОГИИ ПРИ ПРЕПОДАВАНИИ МАТЕМАТИКИ КАНДИДАТАМИ В

Technology use in learning-teaching environments is of vital importance at the present time, in which science and technology are changing and developing rapidly. Consequently, it is assumed that learning will become permanent and effective, thus will not be forgotten for a long time provided that technology is utilized in mathematic teaching. In this study, it is aimed to determine the problems which classroom teacher candidates encounter while utilizing technology in terms of teaching mathematic. This study has been conducted by using case study method and performed with 32 teacher candidates, who are third grade students and study at Giresun University, Education Faculty, Primary Education Programme, Department of Classroom Teaching. Observations have been made with 32 teacher candidates, who take the course called “Mathematic Teaching-I” for 7 weeks. Finally, a semi-structured interview form, which was prepared by the researchers, has been presented to teacher candidates. The study is analyzed and interpreted by using the descriptive analysis technique. NVivo 8 software has been utilized in order to analyze the data. It is concluded in the study that almost all of the teacher candidates have positive opinions on technology use within the context of mathematic teaching. It is designated that teacher candidates face 4 basic problems while using technology in teaching mathematic. These are problems which are encountered in the process of information seeking and while using technology, security problems and hardware problems.

The Mathematics Education I and II Courses’ Effect on Teacher Candidates’ Development of Number Sense

The purpose of this research is to examine the number sense performance of the classroom teacher candidates taking the Mathematics Education I and II courses. Moreover, it investigates whether there is a change in the number sense performance of the teacher candidates following the Mathematics Education I and II courses. Embedded experimental design was used a mixed methods research design. Pretest-posttest weak experimental design was used in the quantitative part of the study, and a case study for the qualitative part. A total of 74 teacher candidates in the third year of the Faculty of Education, Department of Classroom Teaching at a state university participated in the study. As a data collection tool, the 17-question number sense test was used in both quantitative and qualitative part of the research. The quantitative data showed that there is a significant increase in the number sense performance of teacher candidates after the Mathematics Education I and II courses. The qualitative data indicated that prior to the Mathematics Education I and II courses, the teacher candidates considered mathematics as a course in mathematical operations. They generally tended to use routine rules and algorithms in the number sense test, could not fully conceptualize some mathematical rules and phrases they use, and tried to compute instead of using number sense skills. It was found that after the Mathematics Education I and II courses, there was a decrease in the number of teacher candidates computing, whereas an increase in the number that use number sense.

Expectations of Prospective Class Teachers From Physical Education and Game Teaching Lesson

Expectations of Prospective Class Teachers From Physical Education and Game Teaching Lesson Fikret ALINCAK, Sinan AYAN, İsa DOĞAN, Uğur ABAKAY Abstract The aim of this research is to determine the expectations of prospective class teachers in order to reach the goals of Physical Education and Game Teaching lessons which are given in the Classroom Teaching Departments of Faculties of Education. In this research made in a qualitative model, interview form has been used as a data collection tool. Our study group include 165 (95 women, 70 men) prospective class teachers who are studying in the Department of Classroom Teaching at Gaziantep University and volunteer for this research. The acquired data have been interpreted by gathering close data, particular concepts and topics which occur in consequence of being handled by the content analysis method that is often used in qualitative research methods. As a result, the expectations of prospective class teachers are about that the lesson is given due importance, the course is taught practically, the instructor who teaches the course is more effective, the plays which are for children’s education as well as their physical and mental development are diversified, the importance of the plays is evoked, course hours are increased and this course is a vital need for prospective class teachers. Full Text: PDF DOI: 10.15640/jpesm.v2n2a10

Scale Development Study for Prospective Teachers of Online Reading Strategies

The study aims to develop the scale of classroom teacher candidates' online strategies. The participants included 371 teacher candidates enrolled in the department of classroom teaching at Nigde University in Turkey. The data collected were subject to exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses to determine the construct validity of the scale. The analyses conducted revealed that the scale with 16 items included four factors (purposeful reading and reading). Cronbach's Alpha was determined as .832 for the entire scale, as .702 for the sub-dimension of purposeful reading, as .719 for readiness, .672 for selective reading, and as .654 for checking reading. The total variance of the scale was calculated as 53.87%. On the other hand, the results of the confirmatory factor analysis conducted to determine the structure of the scale revealed acceptable and good fit indices. The results indicate that the scale of online strategies is valid and reliable.

Öğretmen Adaylarının Değerler Eğitimindeki Tercihleri

The aim of this study was to identify the approaches, methods and techniques preferred by 4th year pre-service teachers of Classroom Teaching while they were designing values education activities. Data were collected by using the qualitative data collection method of “document analysis”. The participants were 4th year teacher pre-service teachers at Classroom Teaching Departments of three state-run universities in Ankara. They were asked to design activities to teach the value of being open minded. Following this, the methods, techniques and/or approaches used by these pre-service teachers were analyzed descriptively. Their preferences were found to be somewhat associated with the values education approaches of “values clarification” and “inculcation”.

In Art Education, Soul of Materials: Soap Sculptures

Intelligibility and adoption of art is possible with art education. Art education teaches visual and tactile sensation of thinking methods. While these methods purpose to become skilful at self-understanding and expressing him/herself, realising importance of details, would be expected. When emotions and thoughts turn into visual and tactual performance, concretization efforts turns intellectual activities into acts. By way of art, imagination power is improved. Designing in mind activates knowledge. In this way people become skilful at self-understanding and expressing themselves. Despite three dimensional practising has importance for art, it is not allowed to exercise, as it should be. About three dimensional practices, first thing come to mind is sculpture. Hardly in our country, sculpture has not been taken an interest deservedly. In process of time sculpture will be adopted and endeared by different practises. Providing mental clarity and energy transition in act images contribute art and education, in part of a big change.This paper shares exercised works in 2011-2012 education period in Marmara University Atatürk Faculty of Education Classroom Teaching Department during the Art Education.

PRE-SERVICE CLASSROOM TEACHERS’ MISLEARNINGS OF CLASSIFICATION OF THE PLANT KINGDOM AND THE EFFECT OF PORPHYRIOS TREE ON REMOVING THEM

Students may acquire mislearnings in the course of their academic lives for various reasons and keep them for a lifetime. Some of the most common of those mislearnings are the alternative conceptions university students have about Biology lesson. This study was conducted through one-to-one interviews with 54 students at the 1st grade of the Department of Classroom Teaching in order to determine university students’ alternative learnings about the classification and the diversity of plants and remove these alternative learnings if there were any. In the end, it was found that students had mislearnings about the classification and the diversity of plants. The main mislearning was that students classify some of the plants they knew well in a wrong way according to the criteria which was not biological; for example, they thought fern and bryophyte were plants with seeds, fungi were plants, and the plants belonging to the family of Pinaceae did not have real leaves so they were included in the class of plants without seeds. In order to remove these mislearnings ‘Porphyrios Tree’, which has a structure similar to a concept map, was used. As a result, a great majority of pre-service teachers’ alternative conceptions about the classification of plants were removed through this method of application. Key words: classification, mislearnings, plants, porphyrios tree, pre-service teachers.

The Effect of the Use of Interactive Whiteboard on Students' Motivation.

The purpose of this study is to determine how the use of smart board affects the motivation levels of students. This research was carried out with true experimental group and a control group. The sample of the study consists of 50 sophomore students, studying at the Department of Classroom Teaching of the Elementary Education Division at Gazi University in the 2009 to 2010 academic session. In the experimental group, interactive whiteboards (computer-projector and board connection) were used with 25 students; while in the control group, only computer projector was employed, with 25 students also. The experiment lasted for four weeks. The results indicated a significant difference between the experimental and control groups. In comparing their motivation scale scores after the experiment, a statistically significant difference was observed between the two groups and this difference was in favor of the experimental group. Key words: Smart board, motivation, designing material, technologies.

Investigation of the relevance between democratic tendencies and classroom management perceptions of preservice physical education and classroom teachers

The main aim of this study is to determine the relevance between democracy tendencies and classroom management perceptions of preservice physical education and homeroom teachers who will teach in primary schools at 1-4 classes. The sample of the research was comprised of 4th grade students of Marmara University Atatürk Faculty Department of Primary Education and Department of Classroom Teaching (n=108) and School of Physical Education and Sport, Department of Teaching of Physical Education (n=30). In order to obtain the data Lutfu Ilgar's Classroom Management Skills Scale (r=0,809 and 0,790) and Democratic Tendency Scale which is composed by Akbaşlı, Yelken and Sünbül (r=0,74) were used. Correlation, t-test and variance analysis statistical techniques were used to analyze the collected data. Researh results show that there is a significantly positive correlation between democracy tendencies and classroom management perception of the preservice teachers (r=,414). Also it is determined that there is no significant difference between democracy tendencies and

Researching the Foreign Language Learning Styles of Students in Different Departments

This research has been carried out to determine language learning styles of college students’ in different sections and to determine how to teach it better. Population of the study is Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, while the sample group is composed of students studying at Physical Education and Sports and Classroom Teaching departments. Research data have been collected through written sources and survey method. The questionnaire has been applied to the students of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade classes randomly only after its understandability, scope validity and reliability have been tested. In this way, the research has included a total of 199 students, 93 of whom study at Physical Education and Sport, while 106 of whom are classroom teaching students. Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient of the questionnaire has been found 0.65. This is a current value of a coefficient according to the researchers. After the collected data have been coded in an appropriate statistical environment, frequency (f), percent (%), cross-tables have been applied as statistical operations, and to test the differences chi-square (X2) operation has been conducted. As a result of the operation, to determine (%) distributions and to detect differences in opinions for each question, comments have been made upon by accepting 0.05 as confidence interval. In conclusion, we can say that students, in general, learn better by reading, talking, listening, writing, through visual items and solving examples and we can also say that current English teaching method is not efficient according to the collected data.

Young People's Perception of the Evaluation of Parent Attitudes

Researches and literature done on the relationship between the parents and children, according to sources, the common ideas; parents, interaction with the child, the child's physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development is important in the emergence of personality.The child's relationship with his father and mother, their main attitudes are important factors affecting personality development. The parents give the child love, should support him to win his confidence. Respect for and loved, for children come first than the child's basic physiological needs. In this study, within the framework of relations between family members with common attitudes of parents of young people in shaping the relationship between psychological characteristics are examined. To examine this relationship, In Pamukkale University, students have been studying economics, business administration, public administration and classroom teaching departments are involved in research. End of the studies were taken 225 students as a result of significant research by the survey and the findings were evaluated.

THE METAPHORIC PERCEPTIONS OF CLASSROOM TEACHER TRAINEES ABOUT ATATURK’S PRINCIPLES

This study was carried out so as to determine how classroom teacher trainees perceive Ataturk’s principles, which shows the philosophy and underlying structure of Turkish Republic, as a metaphor. The present study was carried out on 176 teacher trainees comprised of freshmen and senior students from Department of Elementary Education, Classroom Teaching Department, Gazi Faculty of Education at Gazi University during 2010-2011 academic year. The participants were given some concepts related to Ataturk’s principles and asked to write a metaphor about these concepts. The obtained data were analyzed by using content analysis, which is one of the quantitative research methods. As a result of study. It is found of that classroom teacher trainees could not define and comprehend of Ataturk’s Principles, metaphors.

Investigation of Preservice Teachers' Communication And Classroom Management Skills

The aim of this study is to investigate the predictive effect of communication skills on classroom management skills. The existing study was carried out in 2011- 2012 fall semester in Erzincan university faculty of education with pre-service teachers taking the classroom management lesson. Studying in the 3rd grade classroom teaching department, 204 pre-service teachers participated to the study. Within the scope of relational surveying model, it was used as a data collecting tool “Scale of opinionaboutclassroommanagement” developedby Ozay Kose (2010) forthe purpose of determining pre-service teachers’ views on classroom management. With regards to communication skills of participants, it was used a scale developed by Oner (2009) for the aim of communicating in the classroom of first level elementary education. The obtained data were analyzed by the techniques of descriptive, t-test, ANOVA and simple linear regression. They were then commented by the light of these techniques. According to the data, it was revealed that 66 % of classroom management skills of participants were predicted by communication skills. There was not revealed any meaningful correlation about classroom management skills between the gender and graduated high schools but also a meaningful correlation about communication skills between women and graduated schools such as Anatolian and Anatolian teacher training high schools. On the other hand, there was no meaningful correlation about reasons of teacher training choosing as a career in classroom management and communication skills.

Öğretmen Adaylarının Mesleki Yeterliklerine İlişkin İnançları

The most important agents of a developing society are teachers. Teaching profession which has always been known as a professional group which take on guiding-intentional duty from past to present has sometimes been the architecture of social structure and sometimes has been the keeper of the regime. The fact that most important profession has taken pedagogic education in pre-service is important fort he future. For that purpose, there has been carried out an assessment study in the context of sample analyzing pre-service teachers’beliefs upon the professional competency according to gender, university, department and type of teaching. Pre-Service Teachers’ Professional Competency Questionnaire developed by Dilci has been conducted to the pre-service teachers in the survey. 107 people including final year students studying in Cumhuriyet University and Kilis 7 Aralik University Faculties of Education have been chosen as random sample to this study. There have been asked the opinions of pre-service teachers studying in Turkish, Social Sciences and Classroom Teaching Departments of the aforementioned universities. According to the data acquired from the survey, it has been noticed that pre-service teachers’ professional competency perception does not differentiate according to their gender, universities and type of teaching; however it significantly differentiates according to pre-service teachers’ departments. This difference is in favor of Classroom Teaching among Classroom Teaching, Turkish and Social Sciences Teaching. Findings have been discussed in the light of the relevant literature

A DIFFERENT APPROACH on SPATIAL PERCEPTION

In this study, an experimental study was conducted with 4th grade students at classroom teaching department in Turkey in an attempt to describe the ideal classroom space for primary education students. In the research, photographs (images) of 20 different primary education classrooms were evaluated by 4th grade 100 students. The students evaluated the images by means of surveys in which they were asked questions on four concepts: belonging, like (partiality), learning and safety. Reliability analyses of numeric data obtained from student surveys were made and they were subjected to various statistical analyses. In the second part of the study, the students' preferences for the classroom spaces were evaluated by means of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) method, by using numerical data obtained from the student about concepts as well as the classroom space photos. Levenberg-Marquart (LM) back-propagation algorithm has been used to train ANN model. Numerical data were treated and test procedures were performed to ensure that ANN makes decisions in the name of 4th grade students at classroom teaching department. It has been seen that ANN has been successful on solving complex problems such as user-perception evaluations thanks to its dynamic structure.

Kelime Iliskilendirme Testi Araciligiyla Ögretmen Adaylarinin Atatürk Ilkelerine

The aim of this study is to examine the applicability of Word Association Test (WAT), an alternative assessment and evaluation technique, for classroom teacher candidates and present the cognitive structures of the classroom teacher candidates regarding the Principles of Ataturk by utilizing the tool. Word Association Test (WAT) was used as the data collection tool in the study. 100 freshmen classroom teacher candidates at Usak University Classroom Teaching Department were administered WAT. Teacher candidates were given 6 key concepts related top the principles of Ataturk and they were asked to write down the associations they thought of in a specific period. Data obtained from key concepts and answer words were recorded in a frequency table. Concept maps that presented the cognitive structures of the teacher candidates were drawn with the help of the data in the frequency table. In addition, sentences that the teacher candidates constructed about each principle were categorized and analyzed according to meaning and various features. The findings show that teacher candidates most frequently used concepts such as Ataturk, public, justice and freedom in their concept maps. Some misconceptions related to principles of Nationalism and State Socialism were detected both in concept maps and sentence constructions of teacher candidates. As a result of the study, it is thought that WAT is an alternative assessment and evaluation technique that can be more frequently used in educational environments. In this context, similar studies in the literature were taken into consideration and some suggestions are provided.

The Effect Of E-Portfolio Process On Learner’s Performance And Attitudes In Gaining Computer Literacy Skill

The aim of this study is to determine the effect of e-portfolio process on learner’s performance and attitudes towards gaining computer literacy skills. Sixty- nine first grade students at Classroom Teaching department in Education Faculty of Erzincan University participated in the study and a pre-test-post-test control group experimental design was employed. The study included both quantitative and qualitative data analysis as well. The students were randomly assigned into two groups: an experimental group and a control group. Students’ theoretical and practical skills on computer literacy were measured to determine their performances and additionally their self-assessment of computer literacy were determined. Students’ attitudes were measured by using an attitude scale and making interviews. The groups were administered an achievement test, as a pre-test and post-test and a self-assessment form were used. Students were interviewed for collecting qualitative data. Independent groups t test, paired groups t test and Mann Whitney U test were used to analyze the quantitative data. Content analysis was used for qualitative data analysis. The results revealed that use of e-porfolio in teaching computer literacy had no effect on their theoretical knowledge level but it affected their practical skills and reflected their self-assessment positively. Besides the students developed positive attitudes towards e-portfolio process. Some useful implications are discussed to conduct e-portfolio process effectively.

Classroom teacher candidates self-leadership behaviour

The aim of this research is to determine classroom teacher candidates’ self-leadership behaviour. The survey method is used in this research. The population of the research consisted of 272 senior students studying at the faculties of education at primary classroom teaching departments at four universities (AgrA± Ibrahim, Cecen University, Cumhuriyet University, Firat University and Kilis 7 AralA±k University) in Turkey. The sample of the research has randomly been chosen and consisted of 262 (83%) students. Statistically a meaningful difference at the 0.05 level is found when distributing the collected data about self-award and cueing, the sub-dimensions of the measure, to universities. The self-leadership behaviour has kept steady at the level of “Generally” and should be advanced to the level of “Always”. Key words: Self-leadership, self-leadership behaviour, classroom teacher candidates.