Showing papers in "Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences in 2009"

TL;DR: The purpose of this paper is both to promote scholarly inquiry about the need of a new type a pedagogy (Web 2.0 based) and the development / adoption of best practice in teaching and learning with web 2.

TL;DR: In this paper, symbolic interaction is defined as a process that is enlivened the reciprocal meaning and values by aid of the symbols in the mind, and objects get their meanings from the social actors.

TL;DR: Overall, students’ attitudes toward the usefulness of a mobile learning system improved significantly at the end of the experimental study and it was found that after the study theStudents’ creativity improved significantly.

TL;DR: In this article, a study was conducted with 1540 primary school teachers using Knowledge, Use and Attitude Scales of ICT, and the results showed that the most commonly used and well-known ICT types among teachers are the Internet, e-mail and word processing.

TL;DR: Possible educational utilization of Web 2.0 tools, namely blogs, wikis, podcasts and social networks, from the point of importance of interaction for distance education is explained and it is proposed to handle a holistic view or using different models and theories suitable for research variables.

TL;DR: This qualitative research based on phenomenological theoretical framework investigates young learners’ experiences of language learning while playing computer games in internet cafes in Turkey, putting light into integrating computer games to ELT curriculum.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between Mathematics Self-Efficacy and achievement in Mathematics and found that there was no significant difference between male and female achievement in mathematics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined differences by gender and grade level in primary school students' attitudes toward science and technology and explored relationship between students attitudes towards science and technologies and academic achievement.

TL;DR: It is saw that, improving of the academic achievements in online learning not only learning styles by itself are utilized on online learning and also motivation of the learner, demographics factors, teaching strategies and teaching methods should be considered.

TL;DR: Findings of a mixed method research project showed significant differences on social and cognitive presence between two course formats and higher perceptions of the presences in blended course.

TL;DR: In this paper, Cikrikci et al. examined the effects of blended learning environment which supports the course management system on the critical thinking skills of students and found no significant difference between pre-test and post-test results.

TL;DR: In the 21st century, people have to have high level thinking skills called 21-century learning skills in order to solve new problems of the new world as discussed by the authors, which can be summarized under three main subtitles; information and communication skills, thinking and problem-solving skills, interpersonal and self-directional skills.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship of organizational citizenship behavior with emotional intelligence of followers and found that emotional intelligence was significantly correlated with conscientiousness, civic virtue, and altruistic behaviors of followers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Mathematics Attitude questionnaire (MAQ) to determine and compare how the attitudes towards mathematics of second grade students in elementary school changes according to some variables.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors adapted the Parenting Styles & Dimensions Questionnaire (PSQ) to Turkish and tested it on 320 preschool children of 5-6 yearsold and the validity and reliability of the scale were tested.

TL;DR: The experience of introducing Wiki technology into a “Japanese for Beginners” module at one of the universities in the UK and the evaluation of learner experiences that followed are reflected.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine students' perceptions about nonverbal communication in class focusing on eye contact, mimics and gestures, finding that non-verbal communication can be an important source of motivation and concentration for students' learning as well as a tool for taking and maintaining attention.

TL;DR: In this paper, the characteristics of traditional studio environments, compared with the constructivist studio in general, are analyzed and a transformation in the design studio is recommended, which is based on the idea that the knowledge is mainly constructed by means of practice and theory.

TL;DR: The research was conducted on Mathematics-I while implementing the topic of ‘derivation’ and the ranked mean scores of achievement level of the students at the online problem-based learning group had higher than the students in the face-to-face problem- based learning group.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors take the basic differences between educational perspective of the 20th century and the concept of the lifelong learning in the 21st century, to display the changing function of educational institutions and the interaction between schools and lifelong learning with a terminological analysis.

TL;DR: An evaluation of the three English textbooks prescribed for use in grade 4 classes by the Turkish Ministry of National Education in state primary schools revealed the extent of appropriateness of theThree English textbooks used by young learners of English.

TL;DR: The study concluded that social networking website users have a medium level of technostress, mainly caused by environmental reasons as opposed to social reasons.

TL;DR: Empirical evidence is provided to ascertain the implications of academic rank on the job satisfaction of academicians in Northern Cyprus and results indicate that job satisfaction does not progressively increase with academic rank as might be expected.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative review of the strategies of preparing teachers to use Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) such as Computer Assisted Education ad Distance Education in teacher education (ITE) programs in the world and Turkey is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the scale of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) was developed by Podsakoff, MacKenzie, Moorman and Fetter to determine in what level the teachers at secondary schools display OCB according to the perceptions of the school administrators.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the effect of elementary school teachers' classroom management skills on the discipline behavior of students and find that a majority of disciplinary incidents that take place in the classroom originate from the insufficiency of teachers' classrooms management skills.

TL;DR: In this article, a study was conducted to determine the relationship between primary school teachers' perceptions towards instructional leadership behaviors of their principals and teachers' attitudes towards change in primary schools in Denizli, Turkey.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors first look at various conceptualisations of self-regulation prominent in the educational psychology research literature, then discuss the metacognitive strategies which will enhance their self regulation and compare and contrast the university students' use of metACognitive strategies in the mother tongue and target language.

TL;DR: How TPCK develops in pre-service English-as-a-Foreign Language (EFL) teachers enrolled in the required computer-assisted language learning (CALL) course is explored.

TL;DR: Proportional Tetris and Proportional Clown are developed, which are about ratio and proportion topic in mathematics education, and students’ attitudes towards both mathematics course and educational computer games became positive.