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Vandeyar, Saloshna – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2017
This paper peers through the window to look at how a teacher brings about meaningful educational change in a diverse classroom. Utilizing three sets of arguments from the field of educational change, I traced educational change within a teacher during the course of an academic year. Data capture comprised a mix of semi-structured interviews and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Change Agents, Teacher Role, Semi Structured Interviews
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Avci, Suleyman; Yuksel, Arzu – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2011
This study aimed to examine the effect of literature circles on fourth grade primary students' reading habits and comprehension skills and collected the opinions of students and teachers about the method. In this study, quantitative (pre-test and post-test designs) and qualitative (case study) methods were employed together. The study was…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Private Schools, Reading Habits, Focus Groups
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Bumen, Nilay T.; Cakar, Esra; Yildiz, Derya G. – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2014
Although a centralist education system is in place in Turkey, studies show that while implementing the curriculum developed by the Ministry of Education, teachers make changes based on their own preferences or depending on students. Curriculum fidelity can be defined as the degree to which teachers or stakeholders abide by a curriculum's original…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Fidelity, Curriculum Implementation, Performance Factors
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Genctanirim Kurt, Dilek – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
This study aims to identify the factors in suicide risk among college students by examining the direct and indirect effects of drug use, internet addiction, gender, and alcohol use on suicide risk. The sample of the study is composed of 975 students studying at different faculties of Ahi Evran University during the academic year 2011-2012. They…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, College Students, Suicide, Drug Abuse
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Rahat, Enes; Ilhan, Tahsin – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2016
The purpose of the present study is to investigate how well coping styles, social support, relational self-construal, and resilience characteristics predict first year university students' ability to adjust to university life. Participants consisted of 527 at-risk students attending a state university in Turkey. The Personal Information Form, Risk…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Coping, Social Support Groups, Self Concept
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Yavuz, Mustafa – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2009
Discovering what determines students' success in the Secondary Education Institutional Exam is very important to parents and it is also critical for students, teachers, directors, and researchers. Research was carried out by studying the related literature and structural equation modeling techniques. A structural model was created that consisted…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Family Income, Structural Equation Models, Foreign Countries