Evrim üstünlüoğlu

• Assoc. Prof.Dr
• Managing Director at İzmir University of Economics

Research highlights the benefits of peer mentoring in helping less experienced students understand their university roles and achieve academic goals. The current study aims to explore the perspectives of mentees and mentors, focusing on program expectations, challenges faced, and suggestions for improvement. This single-case study investigates a 12...

This research was conducted in collaboration with the US Embassy Education Department located in Ankara and the Local Directorate of National Education (DoNE). The study aimed at designing an online in-service training program based on the needs and expectations of K-12 English language teachers; and to identify their perceptions regarding the onli...

Approaches and methodologies based on technology are becoming more widespread in education. One of these technologies, Lecture Capture (LC), is particularly beneficial in higher education, since it allows students to improve learning via flexible access to video-recorded lectures. However, while LC is becoming more widespread in higher education, r...

Technology-based teaching approaches such as flipped classroom and blended learning are becoming increasingly common as educational technology takes root. Lecture capture is one of these approaches; and using lecture capture, lecturers either share their lessons online or make necessary changes before they are made available for review by students....

Due to changing needs at global and national level, there are currently greater than ever expectations from technology-enhanced teaching approaches. To meet these expectations, universities have been experimenting with different teaching approaches and applications. One of these approaches and applications is Lecture Capture (LC). LC is used to ena...

Despite a growing number of studies on the effectiveness of teaching and quality in higher education, reports indicate that more work is needed regarding meeting expectations in teaching quality, in particular, in investigating lecturers’ application of pedagogical knowledge when transferring discipline-specific knowledge. This study aimed to inves...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the perceptions of both students and faculty members on teaching quality in higher education, taking nationality, gender, GPA and faculty members' perceptions of university priorities into consideration. The mixed method approach was used to collect both quantitative and qualitative data simultaneously in...

This study focuses on the misbehaviors of university students, and more specifically, it investigates university lecturers' perspectives of these problems along with their coping strategies. The study also investigates the factors associated with these behaviors and differences in cultural motives behind American and Turkish lecturers' perceptions....

The increasing number of institutions using “Student Evaluation of Teaching” (SET) has caused a growing controversy in the literature. Studies on the use of students’ ratings for evaluating teacher effectiveness have mostly questioned students as valid judges of teaching effectiveness, revealing positive and negative effects of SET. Based on the li...

The common purposes of the studies conducted in language program evaluations are to examine the match between what is desired for the programme versus the actual state of the programme, to make judgments about learners' level of skills and knowledge, and to make suggestions for improvement. However, it is not currently common practice in Turkey eit...

Student evaluations of teaching and teacher (SET) have become the focus of extensive data collection, due to high levels of competition in education. Yet, analysis of the data collected from students has been relatively neglected in favor of evaluation. Furthermore, heterogeneity of student population with different academic background may require...

A perceived lack of motivation and a dissatisfaction among English language teachers together with the evidence of failure rates in English proficiency tests within the School of Foreign Languages signaled a need for change. This study covers the planning, implementation and evaluation of the first comprehensive appraisal system, which allowed staf...

Abstract A perceived lack of motivation and a dissatisfaction among English language teachers together with the evidence of failure rates in English proficiency tests within the School of Foreign Languages signaled a need for change. This study covers the planning, implementation and evaluation of the first comprehensive appraisal system, which all...

This study was conducted in order to investigate the perceptions of university students and teachers regarding responsibilities and abilities related to autonomous learning, and the autonomous activities both inside and outside the classroom. The study also investigated whether these responsibilities, abilities and activities changed significantly...

Foreign language teaching and foreign language teacher training have been the most discussed field in Turkey for years. Because foreign language teaching has not yielded expected results and language learners have not gone beyond the acquisition of some vocabulary and grammar in spite of money, time and effort spent on it. The purpose of this study...

The employment of native teachers of English in countries where English is a foreign language, coupled with a growing concern over teaching effectiveness, has led to collecting data about teachers' performance through student feedback. Not much research has been carried out in Turkey to evaluate the process and output of language teaching by native...

The effectiveness of teaching academic courses such as mathematics and science in a foreign language has been investigated by several international studies in the literature. Even though the studies conducted have brought up contradictory results, most of them reveal that learning academic courses through a foreign language medium may pose conceptu...

This study was conducted in order to investigate the perceptions of university students and teachers regarding responsibilities and abilities related to autonomous learning, and the autonomous activities both inside and outside the classroom. The study also investigated whether these responsibilities, abilities and activities changed significantly...