These proceedings contain the abstracts of papers of EDUSREF 2018, which was held in Ankara, Turkey on 6-7 April 2018. Establishing in 2018 as a scientific initiative; Education, Society & Reform Research (EDUSREF-2018) is an International Conference that aims to bridge the knowledge gap, promote social research esteem, and produce democratic information for potential education reforms. The conference included three keynote presentations from (1) Mustafa Zulkuf Altan, Professor from Erciyes University, on "Improving Education as a Social System in the Face of Future Challenges: Education & Social System: What are the Challenges?; (2) Saime Ozcurumez, Associate Professor from Bilkent University on "Education as a Path for Social Integration: Actors and Institutions in International Protection"; and (3) Mehmet Demirezen, Professor from Ufuk University, on "The functions of pausing in spoken English in teacher training". The papers presented at the conference include: (1) The effect of familiar vs. Unfamiliar text on Iranian EFL learners' intensive reading comprehention (Mahsa Pour Mousa); (2) A community of virtual practice in the degree of Pedagogy at the University of Barcelona (Ruth Vila Banos and Assumpta Aneas Alvarez); (3) Competences for Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue in Teacher education (Assumpta Aneas and Ruth Vila Banos); (4) Assessment for Migration Students : Aiding Culturally Responsive Assessment in Schools(ACRAS) in four European Countries (Funda Nayir, Oya Taneri, Denise Burns, Martin Brown, Joe O'Hara, and Gerry McNamara); (5) A Comparative Study of The Effect of Bologna Process on Czech Higher Education and Italian Higher Education (Jie Liu); (6) The Design of Academic Writing Groups for EFL Postgraduate Students (Gulfidan Can, Ali Battal, Ahmet Ilci, Yunus Alkis, Tuncer Akbay, Selcan Kilis, Okan Arslan); (7) Migration and educational equity: Special needs education as a solution for low achievement (Seyda Subasi); (8) Intensity thinking in digital self- health management- fundamental questions of design strategy (Marjo Rissanen); (9) Utilizing design Based Methodology in Course planning and development (Antti Rissanen and Kalle Saastamoinen); Filling in the Fun Parts: Interactive Fiction and Inclusive Education (Victoria Shropshire and Sarah Tytler); (10) The Most Failed Countries: Reasons for Failure in PISA (Mehmet Akgunduz and Oya Taneri), (11) Inclusive Education in the context of Kuwait (Nouf Alenezi); (12) Views of Turkish Migrants In Retirement On Return Migration: Attitudes Towards Migration (Leyla Ercan); (13) The Examination of the Relationship between Pre-School Education Teachers' Self-Efficacy Beliefs and their Attitudes towards Children (Gozde Erturk Kara and Ummugulsum Tumer); (14) Neoliberalism, Education and Democracy: An Egalitarian Criticism (Rasit Celik); (15) The Awareness of Parents about Montessori Education: Sample of Ankara & Seattle (Sevinc Ucar and Ender Durualp); (16) Continuing professional development: A Review of its Spread and Impact (Vishanth Weerakkody, Mohamad Osmani, Margaret Alipoor, and Nitham Hindi); (17) International Students and Discrimination in Higher Education: A Literature Review (Kamil Demirhan); (18) Learning beyond the Classroom (Yelda Orhon); (19) Lesson and workshop enrichments for the education of the gifted via argumentation based forensic chemistry activities for enhancing gifteds' critical thinking (Ummuye Nur Tuzun and Mustafa Tuysuz); (20) The Effect of Watching Documentary in Geography Education to Student Success (Meryem Esranur Soytürk and Nurcan Demiralp); (21) Effect of EBA Assisted Instruction on Student Achievement In Geography Teaching (Alper Hacioglu and Nurcan Demiralp); (22) The Views of Refugee Students about the Problems They Faced at Turk Schools (Mehmet Gömleksiz and Sibel Aslan); (23) Secondary School Teachers' Views about Refugee Students (Mehmet Gömleksiz and Sibel Aslan); (24) How being close to conflict zones affect learning comprehension of students? (Musharraf Mammadova); (25) Place of Population Topics in High School Geography Curricula (Salih Sahin); (26) Determining gifted students' futuristic science-technology application images for lesson-workshop-project enrichments (Ummuye Nur Tuzun and Memis Kilic); (27) The Social Support Satisfaction Situations of Mothers Who Have Children with Hearing Impairment and Speech and Language Disorder (Beyhan Özge Yersel and Ender Durualp); (28) Strategic Leadership in Centralized Education Systems: The Possible Dimensions (Mustafa Ozmusul); and (29) Spotting the place of the topic statement in paragraphs in foreign language teacher education (Mehmet Demirezen). [Individual abstracts contain references.]