International Journal of Progression and Development in Education (ijpade)

Investigating the Change of Student Behaviours according to the Environment with Mixed Method

Yusuf Küçükali — 2023-10-01

In this research, it is aimed to examine whether the behaviours of elementary school students change according to the environment in which the students live. The research was conducted through sequential exploratory design, one of the mixed research methods. The participant group of the research was formed by convenience sampling method. A total of 40 elemantary school students, 20 from primary school and 20 from secondary school, were included in the participant group. The participant group also included seven teachers, three from elemantary and four from secondary schools. The data were collected using a checklist, unstructured observation and semi-structured interview form. The data collection process of the research was designed in a multidimensional way as observation of the students at home by their parents, observation of the students at school by the researcher and interviews with the teachers of the students by the researcher. Descriptive statistics and content analysis were used to analyse the data. At the end of the research, it was determined that primary school students' behaviours varied according to the environment they were in. In the research, it was also determined that primary school teachers think that students exhibit different behaviours in the face of similar events, that the behaviours acquired by students through education may lead to undesirable behaviours, and that students who exhibit inconsistent behaviours are inadequate in terms of socialisation and academic success. Depending on the results of the research, various suggestions were developed.

The Effect of Using Smart Board in Social Studies Course on Students' Entrepreneurship Levels

Erol Saylan — 2023-10-01

The social studies course, which focuses on society and people, is very important in gaining entrepreneurship skill. One of the tools utilized to gain entrepreneurship in the social studies course is the smart board. In this study, the effect of using smart board in social studies course on students' entrepreneurship levels was investigated. In the study, sequential exploratory design from mixed research method was used. The participant group of the study was formed by using convenience sampling technique and voluntary participation. The participant group included 7th grade students who used and did not use smart boards. The quantitative data of the study were collected with the entrepreneurship scale for secondary school students developed by Eroğlu, Deveci and Gürdoğan Bayır (2020) and the qualitative data were collected with a semi-structured interview form developed by the researcher. Quantitative data were analyzed with t-test for independent samples, one of the parametric tests. Qualitative data were analyzed with descriptive analysis. At the end of the study, a significant difference was found between the entrepreneurship levels of the students who used smart boards in the social studies course and the students who did not use smart boards in favor of the students who used smart boards. In the study, it was also determined that the students defined the concept of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial individual in different ways and saw the social studies course as a course that has an effective role in gaining entrepreneurship. Various suggestions were developed based on the results of the study.

Investigation of High School Students' Knowledge Levels towards Turkish, Greek and Roman Mythology

Şenol Mail Pala — 2023-10-01

It can be said that Turkish society is not very interested in mythology, and therefore, they do not have much knowledge on this subject. However, this fact does not change the reality that the Turks have a rich mythological history and numerous narratives on this subject. Based on this idea, the aim of this study is to comparatively examine the knowledge levels of ninth and tenth grade high school students about Turkish and Roman-Greek mythology. The study is a quantitative study in which the descriptive research model is used. In the study, a questionnaire was used to determine the characters of Turkish and Roman-Greek mythology to collect data. Data were collected from a total of 117 ninth and tenth grade students in three different types of high schools in Erzincan. As a result of the study, it was seen that high school ninth and tenth grade students did not have much knowledge about Turkish and Roman-Greek mythology. It was concluded that the students knew Roman-Greek mythology more than Turkish mythology. In line with the results, various recommendations were developed.

The Predictive Power of Academicians’ Assessment Literacy to Subjective Well-Being, Academic Procrastination and Academic Self-Efficacy in Terms of Gender

Serdar Safalı — 2023-10-01

The purpose of this research is to determine the predictive power of measurement and evaluation literacy of education faculty academicians' subjective well-being, academic procrastination and academic efficacy perception in terms of gender variable. The research was conducted within the framework of relational survey model. The sample consists of 498 academicians working in the faculties of education of state universities by using disproportionate clustering method. The data were collected through the Measurement and Assessment Literacy Inventory, Subjective Well-being Scale, Tuckman Academic Procrastination Scale-Short Form, and Academic Self-Efficacy Scale. Correlation and hierarchical regression analyses were used in the data analysis. A moderate positive relationship between academicians' assessment literacy levels and their levels of subjective well-being and academic self-efficacy, as well as a weak negative relationship with academic procrastination. It was determined that academicians' assessment literacy levels, along with gender variable, had a high predictive power for subjective well-being levels while having a lower predictive power for academic procrastination tendencies and academic self-efficacy.

An Investigation of Postgraduate Education Theses on Socialization of Girls in Turkey

Abdulselami Sarıgül — 2023-10-01

Socialization is learning the norms of the community, nation or group in which people live and acting accordingly. In order for the socialization process to continue in a healthy way, it is important for people to receive certain education at a young age in order to adapt to the society in the future. Especially in male-dominated societies, the education of girls seems to be a very important criterion in terms of belonging to the society and life skills. This research includes a review of postgraduate theses on socialization and girls. The method of the study was qualitative and document analysis was used as the design. In the context of the study, all of the postgraduate theses in the YÖK Thesis Center were scanned by filtering method. The data collection process was centered on various variables. No sampling technique was required to determine the graduate theses to be used in the study. All of the graduate theses listed in the Thesis Center were used for data processing. Descriptive analysis technique was preferred in the evaluation of the data obtained. Some of the findings analyzed within the scope of the research were tabulated as percentages and frequencies. The other part is reported in the form of explanations. As a result of the research; it was found that the postgraduate studies on the socialization of girls in Turkey were inadequate in different aspects and various suggestions were presented in this respect.