Browsing by Keywords "Science"
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Building a career in English: users of English as an additional language in academia in the Arabian Gulf
(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc., 2014)This study investigates how a group of 30 multilingual academics, all users of English as an additional language (EAL) working at a private university in Oman, acquired discourse community membership in their disciplines ... -
Cognitive individualism and the child as scientist program
(2011)In this paper, I examine the charge that Gopnik and Meltzoff's 'Child as Scientist' program, outlined and defended in their 1997 book Words, Thoughts and Theories is vitiated by a form of 'cognitive individualism' about ... -
çağdaş Türk eğitim sisteminin öncülerinden bir deha: İlk doktoralı Türk matematikçi "Kerim Erim"
(Bilkent University, 2018)Bu araştırmanın konusu üniversite reformunun gerçekleşmesinde ve yükseköğretim kurumlarında araştırmaya dayalı eğitim anlayışının benimsenmesinde büyük katkıları olan ilk doktoralı Türk matematikçi Kerim Erim’dir. Bu ... -
Faith and reason in higher education: social scientific study of Islam at Ankara University School of Divinity
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the mektep-madrasa controversy is manifested in Ankara University School of Divinity as a divide between those who see the study and teaching of Islam as a religion, and those ... -
Impact of sustained professional development in STEM on outcome measures in a diverse urban district
(Routledge, 2016)Sustained professional development can support STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) reform. The authors describe a 3-year study of sustained professional development for 3 diverse urban schools across ... -
A longitudinal study of the relationship between mathematics and science: the case of Texas
(International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2015-07)This study aims to investigate the relationship between mathematics and science scores acquired from the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) examination, and how this relationship changed over the years. The ... -
Teaching science, technology, and society to engineering students: a sixteen year journey
(Springer, 2013)The course Science, Technology, and Society is taken by about 500 engineering students each year at Bilkent University, Ankara. Aiming to complement the highly technical engineering programs, it deals with the ethical, ...
