Educational Research and Methods

People forget what they do not use. But attitudes “stick.” Our article emphasizes the importance of students’ attitudes toward statistics. We examine 15 surveys that purport to assess these attitudes and then describe the Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics, a commonly used attitude survey. We present our conceptual…

• ESMA EMMİOĞLU SARIKAYA

This study examined the relationships among statistics achievement and four components of attitudes toward statistics (Cognitive Competence, Affect, Value, and Difficulty) as assessed by the SATS. Meta-analysis results revealed that the size of relationships differed by the geographical region in which the studies wer…

• ESMA EMMİOĞLU SARIKAYA

This study provided a basis for answering the following essential question: Does the years of experience affect teachers' classroom management approaches?Data were collected from 268 primary school teachers.The findings of this study demonstrated that experienced teachers are more likely to prefer to be in control in…

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• MELİKE AYDEMİR ARSLAN

We examined the attitudes of about 2200 students enrolled in 101 sections of post-secondary introductory statistics service courses located across the United States. Using the Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics-36, we assessed students’ attitudes when they entered and left their courses, as well as changes in attit…

• ESMA EMMİOĞLU SARIKAYA

Jigsaw is a well‐known and frequently used technique in cooperative learning. As part of ongoing studies to develop the technique, this research concentrates on exploring its use with prospective elementary school teachers (PTs). In order to establish PTs' views regarding Jigsaw and its effective on their academic suc…

• PERİHAN DİNÇ ARTUT

Jigsaw is a well‐known and frequently used technique in cooperative learning. As part of ongoing studies to develop the technique, this research concentrates on exploring its use with prospective elementary school teachers (PTs). In order to establish PTs' views regarding Jigsaw and its effective on their academic suc…

• PERİHAN DİNÇ ARTUT

Jigsaw is a well‐known and frequently used technique in cooperative learning. As part of ongoing studies to develop the technique, this research concentrates on exploring its use with prospective elementary school teachers (PTs). In order to establish PTs' views regarding Jigsaw and its effective on their academic suc…

Inquiry-based learning [IBL] enhances students’ critical thinking abilities and help students to act as a scientist through using scientific method while learning. Specifically, inquiry as a teaching approach has been defined in many ways, the most important one is referred to nature of constructing knowledge while th…

• AYDIN KIZILASLAN

Nitel araştırmanın popülerliğinin bilim camiasında son yıllardaki hızlı yükselişi, epistemolojik, felsefi ve yöntemsel alanlarda tartışmaları beraberinde getirmiştir. Nitel araştırmaya getirilen eleştiriler özellikle üç konuda yoğunlaşmaktadır: nesnel olamama, geçerlik ve güvenirlik konusunda titiz olamama, genellenem…

• MUSTAFA YAŞAR

Teacher beliefs have become important constructs in educational research with the recognition that beliefs are the best indicators of teachers’ planning, decision-making and subsequent classroom behaviour. In this movement many probes and strategies have been employed by researchers for effective data collection and a…

• OSMAN SERHAT İREZ

This study was conducted to determine the problems faced by graduate students when conducting scientific research and to make suggestions for solving these problems. The research model was a case study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants in the study with questions about the problems encounter…

• ÖZLEM AFACAN