Mustafa Cakir

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• PhD
• Professor (Full) at Marmara University

This research aims to adapt the Teachers Homework Reasons scale into Turkish and develop the Teachers Homework Feedback Frequency scale. The study involved 475 primary, secondary, and high school teachers from northeastern Turkey, with an average age of 41.25 years and an equal gender distribution. The sample was divided into two sub-groups: one un...

This study examines the relationship between high school students’ learning styles, attitudes toward biology courses, and achievement in biology courses. This quantitative study, which was conducted on 616 students selected from four different high school types in Ümraniye district of Istanbul, in the 2022-2023 academic year, was conducted using th...

This study aims to examine the effects of self-control and future time perception on social media addiction and academic procrastination and determine whether social media addiction affects academic achievement through academic procrastination. A total of 559 university students participated. The participants’ most commonly used social media platfo...

There are conflicting reports not only on the effect of scientific inquiry on academic achievement but also insufficient evidence on the relationship between understanding the nature of scientific inquiry and academic achievement; more generalizable studies are needed. The purpose of this large sampled study was to investigate the middle school gra...

Bu çalışmanın amacı lise 10. Sınıf öğrencilerinin ekosistem ekolojisi ve güncel çevre sorunları ünitesindeki bilgi seviyelerini ölçmek için teorik olarak temellenmiş geçerli ve güvenilir bir başarı testi geliştirmektir. Çalışmanın verileri üniteyi bir önceki dönem işlemiş olan, 11. Sınıfta eğitim gören 279 lise öğrencisinden toplanmıştır. Ünitedeki...

This qualitative study examined teachers’ science teaching orientations (STO) and their purposes for integrating the history of science (HOS) into their teaching using newly developed instructional materials. The HOS may be used as an effective instructional tool for achieving scientific literacy; however, science teachers utilise it in various way...

The main goal of this study is to determine whether parents' emotional support, subjective well-being, mastery goal orientation, and sense of belonging in school are significant predictors of high school students' levels of resilience and academic achievement. The data from 6358 high school students evaluated within the scope of the 2018 Internatio...

The aim of this study is to determine the teachers' intention to use interactive smart boards and the factors that affect the behavior. The research was designed within the framework of Unified Technology Acceptance and Use Theory-2. In this context, the external variables examined the effect on the behavior of using smart boards; performance expec...

Scientific misconceptions are scientifically incorrect understandings or intuitions that negatively affect the learning and teaching process and are resistant to change. Teachers are one of the most common and important factors that cause students to develop misconceptions. The purpose of this study was to develop and implement a two-tier diagnosti...

Teachers' educational beliefs influence their decisions and actions before, during, and after class. Classroom actions are a result of decision-making processes wherein teachers judge how they can teach effectively. The early years of teaching profession is important in shaping new teachers' practices in accordance with their beliefs. This study id...

Although understandings of scientific inquiry (as opposed to conducting inquiry) are included in science education reform documents around the world, little is known about what stu- dents have learned about inquiry during their elementary school years. This is partially due to the lack of any assess- ment instrument to measure understandings about...

The purpose of this paper is to address the relevance and discuss the importance of scientific inquiry and argumentation processes, which are indispensable elements of constructivist science education paradigm, in teaching for conceptual change. Inquiry based learning, argumentation and conceptual change theory are separately emphasized by educatio...

The purpose of this study is to investigate prospective teachers' perceived personal problem-solving competencies in relation to gender, major, place lived, and internal-external locus of control. The Personal Problem-Solving Inventory and Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale were used to collect data from freshman teacher candidates (...

The main aim of this qualitative case study was to determine primary school teachers’ perspectives of alternative assessment and evaluation. Data of the study were collected during 2011-2012 school year. Participants were selected via criterion sampling method and consisted of nine primary school teachers. Semi-structured interview protocol was use...

The purpose of this paper is to address the relevance and discuss the importance of scientific inquiry and argumentation processes, which are indispensable elements of constructivist science education paradigm, in teaching for conceptual change. Inquiry based learning, argumentation and conceptual change theory are separately emphasized by educatio...

zet Bilimsel okuryazar birey yetiştirme amacı 2007'den bugüne ortaöğretim programlarında temel fen eğitim amacı olarak önemli bir yer almaktadır. Teorik değişimlerin uygulamada yerini alabilmesinde öğretmenlerin benimsemiş oldukları eğitim anlayışları kilit rol oynamaktadır. Pek çok çalışma öğretmenlerin alana ve alan eğitimine yönelik anlayışların...

zet Bilimsel okuryazar birey yetiştirme amacı 2007'den bugüne ortaöğretim programlarında temel fen eğitim amacı olarak önemli bir yer almaktadır. Teorik değişimlerin uygulamada yerini alabilmesinde öğretmenlerin benimsemiş oldukları eğitim anlayışları kilit rol oynamaktadır. Pek çok çalışma öğretmenlerin alana ve alan eğitimine yönelik anlayışların...

Ekonomik kararlarin ve teknolojik gelismelerin cevreye onemli ve geri donusturulmesi zor etkileri oldugundan, bu etkiler cesitli toplumsal kesimler tarafindan tartisilmakta ve surekli gundemde tutulmaktadir. 2013 yilinda yeniden yapilandirilan biyoloji ogretim programinda da cevre konularina oldukca genis bir yer verilmesi guncel cevre sorularinin...

This article reviews the philosophical tenets of phenomenological qualitative research design as a method in social sciences from epistemological and methodological points of view. As constructivism increasingly dominates the educational landscape and understanding individually constructed realities become more important, phenomenology, which aims...

This article reviews the philosophical tenets of phenomenological qualitative research design as a method in social sciences from epistemological and methodological points of view. As constructivism increasingly dominates the educational landscape and understanding individually constructed realities become more important, phenomenology, which aims...

The purpose of this study is to analyze questions of 2013 biology content knowledge test in civil servant selection examination (KPSS) according to performance indicators in biology teachers’ content knowledge competencies and knowledge and cognitive processes dimensions in revised Bloom taxonomy. In this qualitative research descriptive content an...

Implementing inquiry-based teaching is a challenging task for science teachers. Computer-mediated learning environments are particularly adept at representing complex processes such as mechanism of inheritance and offer an opportunity for teachers and students to collaboratively experience inquiry-based problem solving as a part of science learning...

The main objective of this research is to determine the competency of primary school teachers in alternative assessment and evaluation. In order to achieve this main objective following research questions were investigated: 1. Which alternative assessment techniques are used by primary school teachers? 2. In which capacity do primary school teacher...

Bu çalışmanın amacı Fortus ve Vedder-Weiss (2014) tarafından geliştirilen " Daimi Bilim Öğrenme Motivasyonu (Continuing Motivation for Science Learning) " ölçeğinin Türkçeye uyarlanması; geçerlik ve güvenirlik analizlerinin yapılmasıdır. Çalışmaya, 6. 7. ve 8. sınıflara devam eden 220 öğrenci katılmıştır. Ölçeğin dil eşdeğerliği sağlama sürecinde ç...

The purpose of this study was to investigate associations between students’ perceptions of their biology classroom learning environment, teachers’ interpersonal behaviors, students’ academic achievement, and their attitudes towards biology. The Turkish versions of the Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (QTI), the Technology-Rich Outcomes-Focused...

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship of gender between actual and preferred classroom environment and use of technology in the science classroom of Turkish students. Employing stratified random sampling procedures, data were collected from 985 students from schools across twelve different districts in Istanbul, Turkey. The Tech...

The primary aim of this study was to describe prospective pre-school and biology teachers’ level of metacognitive awareness and epistemological beliefs and to examine differences between the groups. The total of 286 pre-school and biology teacher candidates participated in the study. Participants were asked to complete the central epistemological b...

Adult education researchers can now transcend geographical distance and collaborate across borders. While international research can be conducted using surveys or existing instruments, this feat requires cross-cultural validation to ensure both validity and reliability. This cross-cultural validation must address two aspects if written artifacts ar...

Studies exploring the relationship between students’ achievement and the quality of the classroom learning environments have shown that there is a strong relationship between these two concepts. Learning environment instruments are constantly being revised and updated, including for use in different cultures, which requires continued validation eff...

The present study with an international perspective, investigated the state of knowledge, perceptions, and attitudes among young students toward bioenergy in Finland, Slovakia, Taiwan, and Turkey. A total of 1,903 students with an average age of 15 years from 19 rural and urban schools participated in this study. The study found statistically signi...

Adult education researchers can now transcend geographical distance and collaborate across borders. While international research can be conducted using surveys or existing instruments, this feat requires cross-cultural validation to ensure both validity and reliability. This cross-cultural validation must address two aspects if written artifacts ar...

Learning environment profiles perceived in high schools were investigated by means of hierarchical cluster analysis. Employing stratified random sampling procedure, data was collected from 985 students at 22 schools, those who study in 6 general, 13 Anatolian and 3 vocational high schools located across 12 different districts of Istanbul. By hierar...

Aiming at contributing to the literature and informing the program developers, this study presents research findings regarding the Turkish prospective science teachers' understanding of the nature of science. 168 prospective elementary and secondary science teachers participated in the study. The participants' views on the nature of science were as...

The purpose of the study was to investigate the reliability and validity of a Turkish adaptation of Technology-Rich Outcomes-Focused Learning Environment Inventory (TROFLEI) which was developed by Aldridge, Dorman, and Fraser. A sample of 985 students from 16 high schools (Grades 9-12) participated in the study. Translation process followed transla...

The purpose of this study was to explore prospective biology teachers’ understandings of fundamental genetics concepts and the association between misconceptions and genetics problem solving abilities. Specifically, the study describes conceptual and procedural difficulties which influence prospective biology teachers’ genetics problem solving abil...

The purpose of this study was to explore prospective biology teachers' understandings of fundamental genetics concepts and the association between misconceptions and genetics problem solving abilities. Specifically, the study describes conceptual and procedural difficulties which influence prospective biology teachers' genetics problem solving abil...

The purpose of this study was to situate prospective secondary science teachers in an authentic scientific investigation, that of hypothesis testing of inheritance patterns of cats, and then to examine prospective teachers' developing understandings of basic Mendelian genetics, scientific inquiry, and their perceptions of the learning environment....

Learning environment profiles perceived in high schools were investigated by means of hierarchical cluster analysis. Employing stratified random sampling procedure, data was collected from 985 students at 22 schools, those who study in 6 general, 13 Anatolian and 3 vocational high schools located across 12 different districts of Istanbul. By hierar...

This paper presents a research study aimed at providing an account on Turkish biology teachers " views on the nature of scientific inquiry and assessing if these views comfort the vision and epistemological foundations of the new secondary biology curriculum. To this end, the paper starts with a comparison of the visions and perspectives on the nat...

The purpose of this study is to profile future science teachers' understandings of current environmental issues in the context of an education reform in Turkey. Knowledge base and understandings of elementary and secondary prospective science teachers about biodiversity, carbon cycle, global warming and ozone layer depletion were targeted in the st...

Öğretmen adaylarının hizmet öncesi eğitim sırasında alanda kazandıkları tecrübelerin, onların öğretmenlik mesleğine hazırlanmasında çok önemli bir faktör olduğu çeşitli araştırmalarda vurgulanmaktadır. Ülkemizde “Fakülte-Okul İşbirliği” modelinin uygulamaya konulması bu doğrultuda atılan bir adımdır. Ancak, yapılan çalıĢmalar Fakülte-Okul İşbirliği...

Ortaöğretim öğretmeni yetiştirme programlarında 1997’de başlayan yeniden yapılanma reformu kapsamında “Fakülte-Okul İşbirliği” modeli uygulamaya konulmuştur. Ancak yapılan çalışmalar Fakülte-Okul İşbirliği modelinin işleyişinde bazı problemler yaşandığını göstermiştir. Bu çalışmanın amacı bu modelin değerlendirilmesi ve geliştirilebilmesi için, işb...

Many teachers are unfamiliar with both the underlying science of toxicology, and the process and importance of peer review in scientific method. The protocol and peer review process was tested with college students at 11 universities around the United States. The overall goal was to promote science education by engaging students in a sociologically...

This paper draws attention to the literature in the areas of learning, specifically, cons- tructivism, conceptual change and cognitive development. It emphasizes the contribu- tion of such research to our understanding of the learning process. This literature pro- vides guidelines for teachers, at all levels, in their attempt to have their students...

Today, there is a strong agreement among science educators that science instruction should facilitate the development of an adequate understanding of the nature of science. Despite this agreement, research has showed that science teachers do not possess adequate conceptions about scientific enterprise. Evidence from this research points out that sc...

The primary objective of this case study was to examine prospective secondary science teachers' developing understanding of scientific inquiry and Mendelian genetics. A computer simulation of basic Mendelian inheritance processes (Catlab) was used in combination with small-group discussions and other instructional scaffolds to enhance prospective s...

Through structured science experiments followed by online peer review of their research reports, undergraduates can experience science as a collaborative process of investigation rather than a static collection of facts. In 2001, over 400 students from 11 colleges and universities participated in a pilot study of double-blind online peer review, an...

Many teachers are unfamiliar with both the underlying science of toxicology, and the process and importance of peer review in scientific method. The protocol and peer review process was tested with college students at 11 universities around the United States. The overall goal was to promote science education by engaging students in a sociologically...

This paper presents a research study which, using available hardware and software, simulated face-to-face interviews through the internet by communicating synchronously with the participants. The nature of re- search required the researchers to reach science educators who are located in different places in the USA and in England in order to assess...

The Environmental Inquiry program supports inquiry based, student-centered science teaching on selected topics in the environmental sciences. Many teachers are unfamiliar with both the underlying science of toxicology, and the process and importance of peer review in scientific method. The protocol and peer review process was tested with college st...