Duygu Nazire Kaşıkcı

Kocaeli University · Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology

The purpose of this sequential explanatory mixed-methods research study was to investigate the role of smartphones in college students' mind-wandering during learning. In the quantitative phase of the study, data were collected from 402 college students in order to examine the extent to which college students' smartphone addiction predicts their le...

This descriptive study aims to identify children’s information disclosure tendency in social network environments, their social network use habits and potential risky behaviors. The study was conducted in Turkey’s three largest cities (Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir), and data were gathered with a survey through face-to-face meetings with randomly sel...

In this study, Internet use and activities of children and parents, the risks they encountered, and parental awareness related children's Internet activities were reported by examining the findings based on 23 European countries and Turkey data of EU Kids Online project. In the study, the data were obtained via interviewing of 23.000 of 23 European...

Survey researchers confront a variety of problems when interviewing children and these are compounded when the research includes thousands of children across multiple countries. This article analyses some of the pre-testing and cognitive interview data in the EU Kids Online study for the difficulties children had in answering questions related to r...

Children have only been used as survey respondents since about 1990 (Bell, 2007); before this, it was considered that their responses to questions would not be reliable or valid. More recently, cognitive interviewing has been used to determine what kinds of questions and their phraseology, and with what levels of complexity produce the best possibl...

In this study, a survey about the use of social network sites was administered to children in 9-16 ages living in three biggest cities of Turkey (İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir). Only the children who have a social network site account and one of their parents were included into the study. The survey was employed with a face to face interviewing method. I...