Ceyhan Cigdemoglu

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Atilim University

This study describes the development and validation of a three-tier multiple-choice diagnostic test, the atmosphere-related environmental problems diagnostic test (AREPDiT), to reveal common misconceptions of global warming (GW), greenhouse effect (GE), ozone layer depletion (OLD), and acid rain (AR). The development of a two-tier diagnostic test p...

The purpose of this study is to reveal the impact of the different engagement strategies used to respond to the economic, socio-cultural and existential pressures on the purchase intention of the adult consumers and to compare the purchase intentions of the engagement strategies across gender and income. We embodied a scenario-based within-group ex...

Purpose-The research is commenced to examine the effect of knowledge-based leadership, innovation, and knowledge managementin organizational performance of the Kenyan higher education system.Design/methodology/approach –-The research involved a primary quantitative research, specifically cross-sectional survey design. Study used a sample of 10 priv...

Kuşak farklılıkları teknoloji, sosyal, ekonomik değişimler ve kültürel değişimler gibi çeşitli faktörler tarafından şekillendirilebilir. X, Y, Z kuşakları perspektifinden bakıldığında çalışma değerleri ve iş-yaşam dengesi arasında ilişkinin ne şekilde geliştiği öne çıkmaktadır. Bu sebeple araştırmada, kuşak farklılıklarının iş yaşam dengesi ve çalı...

Göç ve Sosyal Uyum Süreci: Hatay İli Örneği

This study revealed how the flipped learning model interacted with the learning styles of primary pre-service teachers. In addition, the impact of the flipped model on participants’ science teaching course achievement and personal epistemologies was investigated. A mixed-method research design was conducted with 27 primary pre-service teachers enro...

As an attempt to extend the implementation of peer-led team learning to management education, this study proposes to investigate business students’ achievement, critical thinking skills, and interest in learning environment across academic ability groups and attitudes towards team leaders. Using a one-shot pre/post experimental design, 108 convenie...

The purpose of this study is twofold: first, to delve into professional development (PD) of science teachers' views about nature of science (NOS) throughout activities linking NOS aspects to science centers (SCs), and second, to reveal how a science teacher uses NOS aspects while teaching in SCs. An instrumental qualitative case study method with d...

Bölüm Kazanımları • Okul dışı öğrenme ortamları ile sosyobilimsel konular arasında bağlantı kurar. • Sosyobilimsel konuların okul dışı öğrenme ortamlarında nasıl kullanılacağını açıklar. • Okul dışı öğrenme ortamlarında bir sosyobilimsel konu etkinliği tasarlar. • Okul dışı öğrenme ortamlarının sosyobilimsel tartışmalardaki potansiyelini keşfeder....

Recently, an increasing number of retired individuals decide to return to work and seek for post-retirement employment. Although research has already focused on individual and organizational based factors in retirement and post-retirement, the works are limited in some observable settings and well-known professions. The purpose of this study is to...

The aim of this paper was to investigate the effect of the use of science, technology, and society (STS) issues through flipped and traditional learning environments on students’ motivation to learn chemistry as well as their chemical literacy (CL). Two freshman engineering classes totaling 89 students taught by the same instructor enrolled in a ge...

Bu bölümün başlıca amaçlarından biri, sorgulayıcı-araştırma yaklaşımının bilim merkezlerinde öğrenme ve öğretme süreçlerini destekleme potansiyeline değinerek bu yaklaşımın temel özelliklerini ortaya koymaktır. Bilim öğretiminde yaygın olarak kullanılan sorgulayıcı-araştırma tabanlı öğretim metodunun daha etkili bir şekilde öğretmenler ve eğitmenle...

The aim of this study is to reveal the effects of a mentoring process on a teacher who has participated in BILMER (abbreviation of the project that develops a professional development program for science centers) project workshops which support the integration of extracurricular learning environments such as Science Centers into school curricula, a...

Mentörlük genel anlamda bir kişinin (mentör) bilgi ve deneyimini diğeriyle (menti) paylaşarak gelişimine destek olduğu bir gelişim süreci olarak ifade edilebilir. Mentörlük başkalarının becerilerini, bilgilerini veya yeteneklerini geliştirmeyi amaçlayan bir süreç olup, mentinin kişisel gelişim hedefleri doğrultusunda karşılıklı güven ve gönüllülük...

The present study specifically focuses on science teachers’ views about scientific inquiry and their use of scientific inquiry in their lesson plans, which were prepared at a professional development workshop designed for better utilization of science centers (SCs). As an impact evaluation research, qualitative data was collected from 41 purposivel...

Akran liderliğinde takım öğrenmesi, ALTÖ, (Peer-led team learning) ABD bağlamında fen-teknoloji-mühendislik ve matematik (FeTeMM) alanlarında yaygın olarak kabul gören ve bu alanlarda universitelerde uzun süreli uygulamaları olan bir öğretim modeli olmuştur. Bu çalışmanın amacı, ALTÖ modeli ile eğitim gören üniversite birinci sınıf mühendislik öğre...

The purpose of this study is to differentiate the effect of cooperative learning strategy integrated with a flipped learning (FL) model from sole FL implementation in promoting students’ performances while decreasing their social and computer anxiety in an undergraduate course. As a method, a classical experimental design is used. The participants...

This is a three-tiered survey for potential entrepreneurs, designed to separate biased perceptions from lack of knowledge on entrepreneurship

The purpose of this study is to compare freshmen engineering students’ exam achievement in general chemistry course using peer-led team learning model and traditional instruction and to investigate the effect of the methods on different achieving level students. A total of 128 students who were instructed by the same professor participated in the s...

Students of entrepreneurship either have ‘biased perceptions’ and/or they lack knowledge. The literature states that biased perceptions can have lasting effect even after the training (von Graevenitz, et.al, 2010). Lack of knowledge hinders the decision making of nascent entrepreneurs when they rely on personal opinions or past experiences as heuri...

This study aims to compare the effectiveness of Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) model over traditional college instruction (TCI) in enhancing conceptual understanding and reducing both state anxiety and social anxiety of undergraduate engineering students in general chemistry course in a quasi-experimental design. 128 engineering students taking the...

The purpose is to find out whether state and test anxiety can predict general chemistry grade in peer-led team learning group (PLTL) and non-PLTL groups and to explore their predictability of the grade after controlling the influence of trait anxiety. The sample consisted of a total 128 freshman engineering students attending general chemistry in a...

Bu çalışmanın amacı atmosferde görülen küresel çevre problemlerinden sera etkisi, küresel ısınma, ozon tabakasının incelmesi ve asit yağmurları hakkındaki kavram yanılgılarını belirlemek için İngilizce olarak geliştirilmiş olan üç aşamalı bir tanı testinin Türkçeye uyarlamasını yapmaktır. Arslan, Cigdemoglu ve Moseley (2012) tarafından geliştirilmi...

Argumentative practices have the potential to contribute to scientific literacy. However, these practices are not widely incorporated in science classrooms and so their effect on the domains of literacy is still not revealed. Therefore, this study proposes to reveal the effect of argumentation on the three domains of chemical literacy related to th...

Argumentative practices have potential to contribute to scientific literacy. Nevertheless, these practices are not incorporated in science classroom to reveal their effect on the domains of literacy. Therefore, this paper proposes to reveal the effect of argumentation on three domains of chemical literacy related to acids and bases concepts. Partic...

This study explores whether the context-based approach with 5E model (CBA-5E) can lead to better understanding of chemical reactions and energy concepts when compared to conventional instruction (CI). Additionally, the study delves into the effect of treatment with regards to gender. Eleventh grade science-major classes with 175 students from two p...

The aim of this study was to delve into the effect of context-based approach (CBA) over traditional instruction (TI) on students’ chemical literacy level related to thermochemical and thermodynamics concepts. Four eleventh-grade classes with 118 students in total taught by two teachers from a public high school in 2012 fall semester were enrolled i...

Teachers, from primary schools to college, experience challenges regarding both increased class sizes and a greater diversity of students having a broad spectrum of abilities, interests, needs, and goals. The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of cooperative learning through Cooperative Problem-Solving (CPS) activities on homogenous and...

Researches in interdisciplinary teaching methodologies on environmental education and in assessing their impact were recommended in Thessaloniki Declaration (UNESCO, 1997). Therefore, the purpose of this qualitative study was to develop and field test an educational game, EnviroPoly, to promote environmental literacy. The game was piloted with 44 e...

This paper focuses on instructors' experiences on usage of an open-source Learning Management System (LMS), Moodle in their courses. The study was conducted in a private university in Ankara, Turkey where the widespread use of the Moodle has only recently started. The phenomenological design has been utilized as qualitative research method for this...