Mehmet Ali Kandemir

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor at Balıkesir University

Araştırmada, öğrencilerin fen bilimleri dersi erime ve çözünme kavramlarına yönelik bilgi yapıları; çeşitli değişkenlere göre incelenmiştir. Araştırma, Marmara Bölgesi’nde yer alan bir büyükşehirin bir ilçesinde; dördüncü sınıfa devam eden 230 öğrencinin katılımı ile gerçekleştirilmiştir. Araştırmaya katılacak öğrencilerin belirlenmesinde, amaçlı ö...

Araştırmada farklı sınıf düzeylerindeki öğrencilerin erime ve çözünmeye yönelik bilgi yapılarının incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Araştırma 2022-2023 eğitim ve öğretim yılında Marmara Bölgesindeki bir şehrin bir ilçesinden 100 öğrencinin katılımı ile gerçekleştirilmiştir. Araştırmaya katılan öğrenciler amaçlı örnekleme yöntemlerinden biri olan kolay ula...

The aim of this longitudinal research is to examine the development process of scientific and consistent knowledge structures of first, second, and third-grade students in middle school within the concepts of melting and dissolution according to conceptual change theories at the end of the education and training processes carried out in educational...

Araştırmanın amacı, öğrencilerin erime ve çözünme kavramlarına yönelik bilgi yapılarına Jigsaw II tekniğinin etkisini belirlemektir. Araştırma Marmara bölgesinde yer alan bir büyükşehrin bir ilçesinde 2021-2022 eğitim öğretim yılında dördüncü sınıfa devam eden 42 öğrencinin katılımı ile gerçekleştirilmiştir. Katılımcıların belirlenmesinde basit seç...

Argüman üretme becerisi fen bilimleri dersi öğretim programında öğrencilere kazandırılması gereken önemli beceriler arasındadır. İlgili becerinin kazandırılıp geliştirilmesinde öğretmenlerin rolü yadsınamaz. Bu nedenle bu araştırmada öğretmenlerin argüman üretme becerilerinin farklı değişkenlere göre analiz edilmesi amaçlanmaktadır. Araştırma 2021-...

In the research, the knowledge structures (mental model) of the students regarding rotation, revolution, daily and annual movements of the world were analyzed. The research was designed according to the mixed method model in which qualitative and quantitative research methods are used together in data collection process. The research was conducted...

The current study serves two basic purposes: (1) to develop and validate a scale designed to examine students’ mobile learning acceptance behavior in mathematics, and (2) to examine factors that influence their intentions to use mobile learning in their future. The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) was the theoretical frame...

The main purpose of the current study was to develop and validate a scale of perceived attributes of the interactive whiteboard (IW) for the mathematics class. Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations Theory served as the theoretical framework. Two groups of participants in Turkey were employed in this study. The first group consisted of 350 middle school...

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to determine the effect of jigsaw II technique on fourth grade students’ real-lifeproblem (non-routine problem) solving skills in science lessons in primary schools.Methodology: This research was carried out with 53 students attending the fourth grade of a primary school in Bandırma,Balıkesir both in experim...

This study aims to investigate whether there is an effect of anxiety and motivation, and if so, the level of this effect on students’ mathematics achievement in the transition test from middle school to high school. In this research, anxiety and motivation levels of the students were examined together with variables such as gender, pre-school educa...

Bu çalışma, ortaokul matematik ders kitaplarının incelenmesinde kullanılan kavramsal çerçevelerini belirlemeye yönelik içerik analizi çalışmasıdır. Bu amaçla 2006-2018 yılları arasında YökTez, Google Akademik, DergiPark, ERIC, Sobiad’ da araştırmacıların belirlemiş oldukları ölçütlere uyan 11 tez ve 35 makale incelenmiştir. Araştırma kapsamına alın...

Bu çalışmada ortaokul matematik öğretmenlerinin Trends in International Mathematics and Science (TIMSS-Uluslararası Matematik ve Fen Bilimleri Araştırması) uygulaması ile ilgili görüşlerini belirlemek, matematik dersinde kullandıkları öğretim yöntemlerinin TIMSS’e uyumlu olup olmadığı ile ilgili görüşlerinin ortaya çıkarılması amaçlanmıştır. Çalışm...

The purpose of this study is to determine the level of solving non-routine problems of 4th grade students and the relationship between gender and problem-solving skills.This study was carried out with the participation of 140 students who were attending the 4th grades in a ta province of a medium district of a medium sized province in the Marmara R...

One common self‐assessment of creativity is the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale (K‐DOCS). This article provides support for a Turkish translation of the instrument, offering exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis to determine whether the factors were consistent across cultures. The participants consisted of two groups. The first group con...

The current study serves two main purposes: (1) proposing a framework suggesting several conditions that mathematics teachers should establish to increase student creativity, and (2) developing and validating a scale based on the framework, aimed at measuring to what extent mathematics teachers establish a learning environment for their students to...

Bu çalışmada ilköğretim matematik öğretmen adaylarının sayı duyularının incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Çalışmada farklı sayı duyusu başarı düzeyindeki iki öğretmen adayının sayı duyusu becerileri kendi içlerinde derinlemesine incelendikten sonra karşılaştırma yaparak mevcut durum incelendiği için durum çalışması deseni kullanılmıştır. Araştırmada seçil...

Bu çalışmanın amacı, ilkokulda sınıf öğretmenlerinin fen bilimleri dersinde Toulmin argümantasyon modeline uygun argümantasyon yönteminin kullanımına ilişkin görüşlerini belirlemektir. Bu çalışma Balıkesir’in Bandırma ilçesinde 37 sınıf öğretmenini katılımı 16 saatte (8 gün) gerçekleştirilmiştir. Bu çalışma nitel araştırma desenin durum çalışmasına...

In this research, the effect of the fourth grade science course subject teaching in accordance with Jigsaw II technique on the attitudes of students in aspect of science course in line with the active learning approach was examined. The research was carried out for a period of 9 weeks with the participation of total 60 students contained in experim...

Objectives: Spontaneous pneumomediastinum is characterized by the presence of air in the mediastinum without any reason. The objective of this study is to report our experience in the diagnosis and treatment of this clinical condition. Material and methods: 21 patients with spontaneous pneumomediastinum who were referred to our clinic between Ja...

Objective: To identify the characteristic features of pneumothorax patients treated surgically. Methods: The retrospective study was conducted at Gazi Yasargil Education and Research Hospital Thoracic Surgery Clinic, Diyarbakir, Turkey and comprised records of pneumothorax patients from January 2004 to December 2014. They were divided into two g...

Math anxiety has become problematic for Turkish students and is thought to be a major cause of low math performance on national and international exams. As Turkey attempts to gain entry to the European Union, it is imperative that the Turkish educational system make efforts to decrease students' math anxiety. Turkish researchers lack an appropriate...

Patients with thoracic trauma constitute one third of all the trauma cases. Of traumatic patients, 20–25 % die because of thoracic trauma. Our aim was to compare our clinical experience and the results with the related literature. Four hundred thirty-three patients, who underwent surgical interventions due to thoracic trauma, were evaluated. The la...

The main objective of this study is is to explore elementary mathematics teaching and primary teaching prospective teacher’s tendency level of reflective thinking and to examine gender effect and department variable for those levels. Research is designed to be a survey model. A research group was created for 565 prospective teachers, namely 250 pro...

The purpose of this study is to examine what the prospective mathematics teachers who participated in creative problem solving training have learned during the process and to get their opinions at the end of the training. 51 prospective mathematics teachers who are in the 5th year in secondary mathematics education department. Purposed sampling was...

The purpose of this study is to determine factors of mathematics teachers’ motivation.19 female and 23 male mathematics teachers participated in the study. Data were obtained with the help of semi-structured interviews. Data were coded by doing content analysis and themes were reached. Coder balance analysis was found .75. It was concluded that int...

Creativity training in problem solving on the achievement of mathematic teachers is a significant research issue. This study aims to examine the achievement of prospective mathematics teachers who have different creative thinking styles. 16 prospective mathematics teachers participated in the study. One group pre-test and post-test experimental gro...

Background: The goal of the pedagogical content course is to teach how to make mathematics education better through the use of different teaching methods, and techniques. By learning the different teaching methods, future teachers will be able to apply their learning into the teaching. Aims: The aim of this exploratory study is to note and discuss...