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Kurt, Onur – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2011
The present study was designed to compare the effectiveness and efficiency of two discrete trial teaching procedures for teaching receptive language skills to children with autism. While verbal instructions were delivered alone during the first procedure, all verbal instructions were combined with simple gestures and/or signs during the second…
Descriptors: Autism, Receptive Language, Language Skills, Teaching Methods
Odluyurt, Serhat – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2011
The general purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of constant time delay embedded in activities for teaching clothes name for preschool children with developmental disabilities. This study included four participants having Down syndrome with an age range of 43-46 months. All experimental sessions were conducted in one to one…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Teacher Characteristics, Developmental Disabilities, Down Syndrome
Toret, Gokhan; Acarlar, Funda – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine gesture use in Turkish children with autism, Down syndrome, and typically developing children. Participants included 30 children in three groups: Ten children with Down syndrome, ten children with autism between 24-60 months of age, and ten typically developing children between 12-18 months of age.…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Autism, Down Syndrome, Interpersonal Relationship
Nurdogan, Arzu M. – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2011
The aim of the research was to provide an unpretentious sample and contribution to the evaluations that education and schooling politics played a leading role for Bulgarian nationalist movement to gain a mass dimension like other separatist movements. With this purpose in mind, the efforts were made to address to modern education in native…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Muslims
Erdogan, Ozge – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the phonological awareness skills and writing skills of the first year students at primary school. In the study, the phonological awareness skills and writing skills of the students were measured at the beginning of the term. Students' writing skills were measured in the middle of…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Writing Skills, Reading Skills, Elementary School Students
Sarac, Cemal – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2011
In this study, it was aimed to determine the views on the contributions provided for the prospective teachers with the course of Applied Social Activities suggested to be in the undergraduate program of the Turkish Language and Literature Teaching. A qualitative research method was used in order to evaluate the views of prospective teachers about…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Schools of Education, Qualitative Research, Social Sciences
Yildirim, Kasim; Yildiz, Mustafa; Ates, Seyit – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2011
The purpose of this study was to explore whether there was a significant correlation between vocabulary and reading comprehension in terms of text types as well as whether the vocabulary was a predictor of reading comprehension in terms of text types. In this regard, the correlational research design was used to explain specific research…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Research Design, Regression (Statistics), Grade 5
Turkcan, Burcin; Yasar, Sefik – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2011
Visual culture studies have become the focus of research in recent years mainly due to the frequent use of art applications in Visual Arts courses in primary schools and the inadequate content of discipline based art education for the interpretation of today's multiple stimulants. By interrogating students' semantic stratums related to visuals,…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Research Design, Visual Arts, Action Research
Birinci Konur, Kader; Seyihoglu, Aysegul; Sezen, Gulsah; Tekbiyik, Ahmet – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2011
In this research, summer science camp which is carried out on the purpose of developing positive attitude towards science and nature with enjoyable experiments in primary school students and activities were evaluated. The camp was performed as two 5 days stages with a total 48 students who had finished 7th grade at primary school. The findings of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Grade 8, Summer Science Programs
Bozdogan, Aykut Emre – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2011
The studies global warming problem conducted in education discipline in the world and in Turkey were analysed for this study. The literature was reviewed extensively especially through the articles in the indexed journals of Ebsco Host, Science Direct, Taylor and Francis and Web of Science databases and this study was conducted according to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, Environmental Education, Global Approach
Iflazoglu Saban, Ayten – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2011
The aim of this study was to evaluate to what extent class activities at the Elementary Science and Technology course address intelligence areas. The research was both a quantitative and a qualitative study. The sample of the study consisted of 102 4th grade elementary teachers, 97 5th grade elementary teachers, and 55 6th, 7th, and 8th grade…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Multiple Intelligences, Class Activities, Interviews
Karagoz, Meryem; Cakir, Mustafa – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2011
The purpose of this study was to explore prospective biology teachers' understandings of fundamental genetics concepts and the association between misconceptions and genetics problem solving abilities. Specifically, the study describes conceptual and procedural difficulties which influence prospective biology teachers' genetics problem solving…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Interviews, Genetics, Metacognition
Sasmaz Oren, Fatma; Ormanci, Ummuhan; Evrekli, Ertug – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2011
The present study aims to determine the science and technology pre-service teachers' self-efficacy levels and their opinions about alternative assessment and evaluation approaches. The study was carried out with the participation of 53 science and technology pre-service teachers studying in the Faculty of Education at Celal Bayar University. As…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Opinions, Alternative Assessment, Interviews
Duru, Adem – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2011
The purpose of this study was to investigate the pre-service teachers' conceptions about the limit of same partial functions given in the form of both graphical and symbolic, the misconception that the pre-service teachers have the concept of limit, and whether there were any differences between pre-service teachers' algebraic performance and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Interviews, Program Effectiveness, Data Analysis
Peer reviewedBlacker, David – Educational Theory, 2003
Draws upon contextualism (a normative theory of social justice that takes seriously the heterogeneity of human value commitments) to propose a framework for educational accountability that is premised on accountability's normativity and the diversity of educators' desired aims, focusing on: liberal contextualism and democratic education; and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Democratic Values, Elementary Secondary Education, Liberalism


