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Teacher education in Turkey: issues and trends
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Turkey: paradigm change in education
(Information Age Publishing, 2006)Teaching in Turkish schools has long been delivered in a teacher-centred way. The means of assessment also has been traditional, and because the major examinations are used for entry to quality schools and ultimately to ... -
Curriculum reform in Turkish teacher education: attitudes of teacher educators towards change in an EU candidate nation
(Elsevier, 2007-03)Educational development is one way through which Turkey enhances progress towards its social goals and prepares itself for European Union membership. A major effort to upgrade the Turkish educational system was made through ... -
Educational reform in Turkey
(Elsevier, 2007-03)There are a number of reform initiatives underway in Turkey but some of these, which are concerned with curricular and structural changes, have encountered serious difficulties. This paper begins with a brief summary of ... -
Periphery theorising for a truly internationalised discipline: spinning IR theory out of Anatolia
(Cambridge University Press, 2008)Concerns over inequalities that have been located between the roles of the core and periphery within the development of the IR discipline have led to questions of whether it is possible to build up theoretical concepts ... -
Turkey 2010: transforming education to meet challenges
(Information Age Publishing, 2008)This chapter discusses the state of education in Turkey and the emergence of new key ideas within the framework of one of the strategic goals of the Lisbon 2010 Strategy: improving the quality and effectiveness of education ... -
Restructuring reforms in Turkish teacher education: modernization and development in a dynamic environment
(Elsevier, 2008-01)The paper examines the effectiveness of recent reforms in teacher education in Turkey, specifically the restructuring of programmes in university faculties of education. It first, briefly, sets the reforms of the 1990s in ... -
To what extent do native and non-native writers make use of collocations?
(De Gruyter Mouton, 2009)Usage-based models claim that first language learning is based on the frequency-based analysis of memorised phrases. It is not clear though, whether adult second language learning works in the same way. It has been claimed ... -
The effect of keeping vocabulary notebooks on vocabulary acquisition
(Sage Publications Ltd., 2009)Vocabulary notebooks are frequently advocated as a way for students to take control of their vocabulary learning (Fowle, 2002), with the added benefit of improvements in vocabulary learning (Schmitt and Schmitt, 1995; ... -
Expanding educational access in Eastern Turkey: a new initiative
(Pergamon Press, 2010)The Eastern Anatolian project extends opportunity and access to quality education. The study examines the selection and learning systems adopted within the framework of gender equity, family background and higher order ... -
A Confirmatory structural equation model of achievement estimated by dichotomous attitudes, interest, and conceptual understanding
(Eurasia Publishing House, 2010)Many models in science education have tried to clarify the causal relationships of affective variables on student performance, by presenting theoretical models, exploratory SEM (structural equation models), and confirmatory ... -
Adult learners' retention of collocations from exposure
(Sage Publications Ltd., 2010)Formulaic language is widely recognized to be of central importance to fluent and idiomatic language use. However, the mechanics of how formulaic language is acquired are not well understood. Some researchers (e.g. Nick ... -
Publishing in a mathematics education research journal
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Teacher education accreditation in Turkey: the creation of a culture of quality
(Elsevier, 2010-01)Turkey’s experience in developing and piloting accreditation criteria and national standards for teacher education is examined. The full implementation of an accreditation process for teacher education programs was not ... -
Unpacking the inequality among Turkish schools: findings from PISA 2006
(Elsevier, 2010-03)The study investigates the effects of certain school characteristics on students’ mathematics performances in Turkey in the PISA 2006 while controlling for family background and demographic characteristics. Three models ... -
Contaminating factors in university students' evaluation of instructors
(Turk Egitim Dernegi, 2011)The present study seeks to determine the variables explaining differences between the scores of student ratings given to instructors within the context of the university through discriminant analysis. Ratings given by ... -
Pre-service elementary teachers' understandings of graphs
(Eurasia Publishing House, 2011)Choosing graphs to display quantitative information is a component of graph sense. An important aspect of pre-service elementary teachers' content knowledge; ability to choose appropriate graphs in applied contexts is ... -
The effect of the worksheets on students' achievement in chemical equilibrium
(Ekip Ltd. Sti., 2011)In the present study, it is aimed to determine effects of worksheets on students' achievement on the factors affecting equilibrium. The study was carried out with a quasi-experimental design. Data were collected through ... -
Solving a stability problem by Polya's four steps
(Istanbul Aydin University, Engineering Faculty, 2011)In this paper, we consider the proof of stability of a nonlinear system. We found it useful to employ Polya’s general four step problem solving process to organize and present the solution and our thinking. Polya's ideas ... -
Basic training and professional qualifications of teachers in Bulgaria and Turkey: a comparative study
(Hacettepe Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dekanlığı, 2012)The professional qualification of teachers is a derivative of the career development system, the lifelong study model, the expected efficiency of the learning process and others. Motivating a teacher with regard to the ...
