Nuri Balta

SDU University

This study investigates the effectiveness of feedback provided by teachers versus feedback generated by the Write & Improve platform in enhancing the writing skills of senior undergraduate students enrolled in a “two foreign language” program at a private university in Kazakhstan. The quasi-experimental design involved four teachers, each teaching...

In Project-Based Learning (PjBL), students are at the center of the learning process, where they actively collaborate to solve real-world problems. The aim of this study’s research was to explore students’ opinions of PjBL lessons across several factors: attitude, learning, critical thinking and engagement. To gather data, a questionnaire was admin...

Assessing Preservice Biology Teachers' Lesson Planning Competencies

The Artificial Intelligence Pedagogical Content Knowledge (AIPACK) framework provides educators with strategies to apply AI tools effectively in education. It emphasizes flexibility in adapting to advancements in AI technologies, ensuring context-sensitive applications that align with specific pedagogical goals. By integrating AI capabilities with...

Rooted in social constructivist learning theory, problem-based learning (PBL) is a tool that deepens students’ learning of complex subjects and improves students’ attitudes and beliefs towards learning. Physics is a subject that students themselves view as challenging. When taking physics, students develop negative beliefs about their own learning...

This data is for our PBL study

This study investigates the performance of GPT-4, an advanced AI model developed by OpenAI, on the force concept inventory (FCI) to evaluate its accuracy, reasoning patterns, and the occurrence of false positives and false negatives. GPT-4 was tasked with answering the FCI questions across multiple sessions. Key findings include GPT-4’s proficiency...

The aim of this study was to map the current status of STEM education in Kazakhstan. The study encompasses 24 studies selected through a literature search in Google Scholar, ERIC, Web of Science, and Scopus. The descriptive characteristics of the reviewed studies reveal a significant increase in STEM education publications in Kazakhstan since 2019,...

This study investigates the relationships between students' perceptions, interests, and engagement in mathematics within the cultural framework of K-12 education in Kazakhstan. A diverse sample of K-12 students representing various grade levels and community settings was included in the research. The analysis proceeded in three distinct phases: fir...

This paper examines peer instruction, an educational technique that enhances student-student interaction and student-teacher interaction, influencing students' performance on counterintuitive physics questions. The study employed a quantitative approach with 40 participants, 22.5% of whom were male and 77.5% were female. The counterintuitive dynami...

Teachers’ knowledge about technology and teaching with technology is decisive for how affordances of technology integration are taken up. Two questionnaires were administered in 21 high schools in Kazakhstan: one about types of teacher knowledge based on technological pedagogical content knowledge framework and one about affordances of technology i...

This study is a scoping review of research conducted on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in Kazakhstan. A total of 26 studies were selected, including journal articles and master’s theses. The selected studies were thematically analyzed to identify key aspects and shared aspects. Three main thematically organized areas for CLIL resea...

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields play a critical role in the advancement of society and are expected to grow rapidly in the coming years. This study examines the development of a STEM education course and its impact on teachers’ self-efficacy and course experiences. The study involves a mixed-methods approach, using s...

This mixed method research (quantitative and qualitative) is dedicated to analyse the Structure of Kazakhstani University Students’ knowledge about the force concept. For this purpose we extend the existing, well known instrument Force Concept Inventory (FCI), applying a three-tier test approach, by asking students to write an explanation of scient...

Pedagogical discontentment refers to the feeling of dissatisfaction or frustration that teachers experience with the current state of their teaching. The purpose of this study is to explore high school physics teachers’ pedagogical discontentment within the Kazakhstani context. A survey was administered to 126 physics teachers from urban and suburb...

This editorial explores the ethical challenges associated with integrating artificial intelligence into educational settings. They highlight key ethical principles to guide AI use in educational research, including transparency, accountability, fairness, and authenticity. The author emphasizes the need for ethical frameworks to address complex issu...

This study aims to investigate Kazakhstani high school students’ environmental knowledge, attitude toward the environment, environmental awareness, and environmental concern, and to present the effect of various extracurricular activities on high school students’ knowledge, attitude, awareness, and concern. We surveyed 124 students at various grade...

Many introductory physics textbooks include problem-solving templates that are intended to assist students in solving complex physics problems. Despite the widespread use of such templates, there is little evidence as to their effectiveness. In this study, we investigated the effects of using a research-based problem-solving template in three physi...

Emotions such as anxiety, fear, and frustration can interfere with cognitive processing and hinder our ability to learn and perform well on tasks. Mathematics is a school subject that could generate various emotions in students. This study examined mathematics achievement emotions of students across gender, grade level, and academic performance. Da...

The aim of this study is to examine Kazakh female students’ interest in STEM professions. A convenient sampling method was used to determine the participants from 10 girls’ schools in Almaty city in Kazakhstan. 522 girls from grades 7th to 11th provided answers to the “STEM Career Interest Survey” which was administered online. Collected data was a...

More and more educators are adopting the flipped classroom approach (FC) in their teaching, which entails using video-based learning outside of the classroom and interactive group learning activities inside. The aim of this review is to offer a summary of research on the use of flipped classrooms in physics education. A comprehensive analysis of 30...

This study aimed to develop and validate an instrument to explore university students' perception of Chat GPT, while also investigating potential variations across gender, grade level, major, and prior experience with using Chat GPT. Employing a quantitative research approach, the study involved 239 students enrolled in the Science and Mathematics...

The aim of this meta-analysis was to analyze the experimental research into the effects of job-embedded professional development (JEPD) for teachers and student outcomes. Our meta-analysis of experimental studies of the effects JEPD, included 20 studies (with 79 experimental comparisons) at teacher level and 19 studies at student level (with 34 exp...

Despite pervasive educational efforts, student interest in STEM careers continues to decline in many countries. The present study seeks to better understand this phenomenon by examining how internal factors (gender) and external factors (school grades, grade level, family size) relate to Kazakh students' STEM career interests. To this end, a newly...

Open lesson (OL), similar to the Japanese lesson study in many aspects, is a professional development model regularly used in schools in the Commonwealth of Independent States Countries. The purpose of this study was to examine teachers’ and students’ attitudes and beliefs about OL practices and activities, using both quantitative and qualitative m...

The purpose of this study is to develop a test to assess students’ level of counterintuitiveness in basic electric circuits. Data from four samples were gathered and used to develop and validate the counterintuitive basic electric circuit test (CBECT). The initial version of the CBECT was administered to the first sample and data collected from thi...

The aim of this study is to analyze secondary school students’ career interests in STEM subjects. This survey-based quantitative research is provided to gain insight into the STEM career interests of 398 students (7–11 graders), in the Almaty region of the Kazakhstan Republic. Through parametric and non-parametric test analysis, the relationship be...

Can engaging university students in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) increase their achievement in Biology and English language? The current study explored the effectiveness of team teaching enhanced CLIL on student achievement. Framed in interdisciplinary/cross-curricular teaching, we examined the effect of CLIL strategy on student...

In this paper, we described the development of the High School Wave Optics Test (HSWOT). Firstly, 56 conceptual, multiple-choice items with a single correct answer and three distractors were created. Next, we conducted an initial review of the items which resulted in reducing the item pool to 44 highest quality items. Validity evidence and feedback...

This article examines the impact of a professional development program aimed at encouraging high school teachers to include more modern physics in their enacted classroom curricula through improved content and pedagogical knowledge. The program was implemented with 17 high school physics teachers (three were the focal point of this study) in Turkey...

The study aimed to investigate the correlation between the students’ type of motivation (extrinsic/intrinsic) and their attitude toward the ethics of the use of information technologies, as well as the individual differences in students’ unethical Internet use concerning intrinsic and extrinsic motivational orientations. There was used the Internet...

In introductory texts, some “special” rays are selected to draw the image produced by lenses and mirrors. After teaching special rays, students usually ask how to draw an arbitrary ray. One method for drawing an arbitrary ray is the tilted principal axis. As an example, the tracing of an arbitrary ray in diverging lens is indicated in Fig. 1.

In this paper, we described the development of the High School Wave Optics Test (HSWOT). Firstly, 56 conceptual, multiple-choice items with a single correct answer and three distractors were created. Next, we conducted an initial review of the items which resulted in reducing the item pool to 44 highest quality items. Validity evidence and feedback...

In this work, we tried to check whether students can overcome their mistakes in conceptual physics questions by peer discussion. For this purpose, we administered Force Concept Inventory to high school students and university students. Our study showed that high school students and university students could not overcome their mistakes in the concep...

A R T I C L E I N F O Keywords: Nature of science consensus view of NOS science views of prospective teachers pedagogical training course A B S T R A C T The purpose of this study was to assess the nature of science (NOS) views of prospective teachers from different majors (sport, engineering, science, health, social sciences, math, and economy) an...

In this study, we conducted peer instruction (PI) activities to promote student participation in the learning process and test the hypothesis that PI improves student achievement. Two ninth-grade classes were randomly assigned as treatment and control groups. Pre-test and post-test data were obtained for measuring mathematics achievement in trigo...

The Impact of Peer Instruction on student achievement in mathematical analysis

In this study, we conducted peer instruction (PI) activities to promote student participation in the learning process and test the hypothesis that PI improves student achievement. Two ninth-grade classes were randomly assigned as treatment and control groups. Pre-test and post-test data were obtained for measuring mathematics achievement in trigono...

Plants are essential types of human nutrition, both in terrestrial and in space station conditions. The cultivation of plant foods in space conditions at the near-Earth stations has become possible due to the modern achievements in agricultural technologies. The proposed article aims to study the creation of optimal conditions for growing plants us...

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The Colorado learning attitudes about science survey (CLASS) was given to 308 high school physics students in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where physics is taught every year through middle and high school. Student responses were tested using several different latent factor models: two based on those published in the recent literature and two new models deve...

The study is conducted on 558 under-graduate students in Romania and Spain to examine potential differences in perception and acceptance items towards using web-based technologies. The research model is based on the Internet Attitude Scale (IAS) and measures Perceived Enjoyment, Perceived Anxiety, Perceived Usefulness and Computer Self-Efficacy. Re...

Teaching through discrepant event activities increases student interest in science. In this article, I will introduce a well-known 19th century demonstration, the Tissandier experiment, to stimulate curiosity among students learning the concept of inertia. In this demonstration, a hard object (e.g. a wooden rod) placed on fragile supports is broken...

In this study, we aimed to develop an instrument that could be used to measure students' achievement in modern physics at high school level in a valid and reliable manner. The study was carried out in fall 2013–2014 with a total of 304 students. In this study, expert opinions were obtained to determine the test’s content validity. The reliability o...

Student cognition in response to intuitive and counterintuitive stimuli in the school science curriculum is not well understood. To address this issue, this study examines high school students’ cognitive responses to three counterintuitive physics problems. Our analysis reveals that student success in arriving at counter-intuitive physical response...

Teacher professional development, in particular, has been at the center of efforts designed to increase teaching practice and the learning of students. The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of the ‘teacher-led PD for teachers’ program, developed by the researchers, on students’ achievements. The study was conducted with six high school...

The present study focuses on foreign language enjoyment (FLE) and foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) of 592 learners of Turkish as a foreign language (FL) in Kazakhstan. Mean levels of FLE and FLCA were found to be similar to previous studies in different settings with different target languages. In contrast with previous literature, a weak...

The aim of this study was to characterise thoroughly the differences between Physics Olympiad competitors' and regular students' successes and approaches in relation to counterintuitive dynamics problems (CDPs) in order to discover some of the differences between skilled problem-solvers and those with fewer such skills. A total of 23 Physics Olympi...

Students’ attitudes and approaches to problem solving are claimed to be related to their ways they learn physics and to their success in solving physics problems. In this study, the Attitudes and Approaches to Problem Solving (AAPS) survey was used to reveal Turkish introductory university students’ attitudes and approaches to physics problem solvi...

The aim of this study was to understand how students’ attitudes were connected to the web based software Socrative. The study was conducted with 50 students taking first year physics courses in a university. The survey dimensions were based on four previous research works and the survey instrument was extended to better reflect the current study ne...

Turkish is spoken by a large number of people in a wide geographical area and teaching Turkish as a foreign language is a subject that gains importance nowadays. This research employed a quantitative survey strategy to address the issue of anxiety in learning Turkish language in and outside the classroom. Participants were 356 students of two high...

A new method is proposed that can be used in STEM courses to calculate the ground speed of the Moon's shadow during solar eclipses. The suggested method uses the interactive map provided by NASA and produces data from this map for the distance and time between two points. The speed is graphed and discussions on the varying speed of the shadow are m...

One way to ease the solution of physics problems is to visualize the situation. However, by visualization we do not mean the pictorial representation of the problem. Instead, we mean a sketch for the solution of the problem. In this paper a new approach to solving physics problems, based on decomposing the problem into with and without gravity, is...

Retrieved from: http://rdcu.be/uRNS Socrative is an online assessment and student response tool that provides opportunities to increase student engagement in the classroom. We used Socrative as an online homework completing platform to increase students’ exam scores in physics. To explore the relationships among factors and the educational effectiv...

Water exhibits a maximum in density at normal pressure at around 4° degree temperature. This paper demonstrates that during cooling, at around 4 °C, the temperature remains constant for a while because of heat exchange associated with convective currents inside the water. Superficial approach implies it as a new anomaly of water, but actually it is...

In this paper, five simple demonstrations with an off-center disk that can be easily constructed and demonstrated in science class are described along with the 5E learning strategy. These demonstrations can be used to help students develop an understanding of the relationship between the centre of mass and torque. These STEM activities are appropri...

This study aims to develop physics problem solving survey utilized to obtain students attitude and approach while solving physics problem. Several steps are conducted to develop the survey: validating, computing reliability, and testing. This research involves Physics Education students-Tanjungpura University who study at Fourth and Sixth semester....

Advanced technology helps educational institutes to improve student learning performance and outcomes. In this study, our aim is to measure and assess student engagement and collaborative learning in engineering classes when using online technology in solving physics problems. The interactive response system used in this study is a collaborative le...

This study is aimed at first introducing a well-known discrepant event; inseparable phone books and second, turning it into an experiment for high school or middle school students. This discrepant event could be used especially to indicate how friction force can be effective in producing an unexpected result. Demonstration, discussion, explanation...

This study investigates the engineering epistemological beliefs (EEB) of Turkish vocational high school students. The goal of this research is to reveal changes in these beliefs across grade levels, discipline, and gender. The present study included 314 vocational high school students from five schools in two Turkish cities. A Turkish version of th...

Peer Instruction is an interactive teaching method to improve learning in higher education. It has been used in a wide range of courses and countries to create interactivity during lectures. The meta-analysis is based on 29 studies (N = 4738), and aims to examine the effect of Peer Instruction on learning gains and identify moderating variables. Pe...

This study aims to develop physics problem solving survey utilized to obtain students' attitude and approach while solving physics problem. Several steps are conducted to develop the survey: validating, computing reliability, and testing. This research involves Physics Education students-Tanjungpura University who study at Fourth and Sixth semester...

This qualitative study was designed to introduce 3-dimensional and digital materials to pre-service science teachers and identify their views about them. In this context, three projects was performed with 42 pre-service science teachers (13 male - 29 female) who took Instructional Technologies and Material Development course in Elementary Science E...

This study is a detailed look at the level of understanding of fundamental ideas about blackbody radiation (BBR) among physics teachers. The aim is to explore associations and ideas that teachers have regarding blackbody radiation: a concept used routinely in physics and chemistry, which is necessary to understand fundamentals of quantum physics. I...

Socrative is a free online assessment tool that empowers instructors to engage and assess their students as learning happens. Through Socrative, instructors can design assessments online and students can access the assignments with any device or browser. In this study, the Socrative was used to increase students' exam performances in Canik Basari U...

A new national physics curriculum has recently been implemented across Turkey. This paper examines the experience of physics teachers through their experience of implementing the ninth grade physics curriculum all over the Turkey. A cross-sectional survey design was used to examine to what extent physics teachers comply with, teach and comprehend t...

This article reports the results of a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of 7E learning cycle in science teaching. Totally 35 different effect sizes from 24 experimental studies, comprising 2918 students were included in the meta-analysis. The results confirmed that 7E learning cycle have a positive effect on students' achievement. The overall effe...

Student attitudes and approaches to problem solving can impact how well they learn physics. Prior research in the US using a validated Attitude and Approaches to Problem Solving (AAPS) survey suggests that there are major differences between students in introductory physics and astronomy courses and physics experts in terms of their attitudes and a...

Student attitudes and approaches to problem solving can impact how well they learn physics. Prior research in the US using a validated Attitude and Approaches to Problem Solving (AAPS) survey suggests that there are major differences between students in introductory physics and astronomy courses and physics experts in terms of their attitudes and a...

The advantages of technology cannot be ignored and new technological applications come into our life almost every day. In this sense, it is inevitable to use those technological devices in the field of education for efficient teaching and learning. This paper deals with the attitudes of prep school students toward using Socrative in the classroom a...

Most students find real-world examples of harmonic oscillations interesting. Besides, normal and friction forces are the types of concepts in physics that are readily applicable to their everyday life. For instance, we depend on these forces to write, to drive cars, to pick up objects, and even to walk! And yet introductory physics students have to...

One way to arouse student interest and curiosity about course content is to enable students come across with counterintuitive problems. Counterintuitive physics problems (CIP) are those that yield solutions away from students’ expectations or away from students’ predictions. This research has investigated the effects of CIP questions on physics ach...

One way to fascinate, engage, arouse curiosity, motivate, and stimulate intellectual development in learning scientific concepts is to use counterintuitive questions. These questions make students aware of the inadequacies of their own thinking by exposing them to situations whose outcomes are inconsistent with what they would expect. In this study...

One of the ways for teachers to improve classroom activities and student achievement is to receive in-service training (IST). This study examines theses that deal with the effects of IST on teachers' achievement by means of meta-analysis. A total of five theses, chosen through screening conducted by specified criteria, were included in this meta-an...

Centripetal acceleration, linear and angular speeds are three mathematical quantities that are of primary interest to analyze the uniform motion of objects in circles. The formula of centripetal acceleration is usually derived from the difference ΔV of two tangential velocity vectors. The formulas for the relation between linear and angular speeds...

Visualizing physical concepts through models is an essential method in many sciences. While students are mostly proficient in handling mathematical aspects of problems, they frequently lack the ability to visualize and interpret abstract physical concepts in a meaningful way. In this paper, initially the electric circuits and related concepts were...

Recently much have been invested in the interactive whiteboard educational technology in Turkey. The government is still wishful to spread it to schools of all levels. This study tries to understand teachers’ and students’ attitudes toward interactive whiteboard technology along with differences in attitudes resulting from some demographic factors....

The aim of this study is to develop an instructional design model for science laboratory instruction. Well-known ID models were analysed and Dick and Carey model was imitated to produce a science laboratory instructional design (SLID) model. In order to validate the usability of the designed model, the views of 34 high school teachers related to SL...

This study's main objective is to analyze the extent of influences of figured or non-figured questions in science exams on secondary school students' performance. Previous studies indicate the fact that students' performance is usually affected positively and sometimes adversely by conducting examinations having visuals such as pictures, figures an...

Bu çalışmanın amacı, elektriksel potansiyelin bir dizi mekanik modellerini geliştirmek ve geliştirilen modellerin elektriksel potansiyel konusunu geleneksel yöntemle henüz öğrenmiş öğrencilerin, konuyu daha iyi anlama üzerindeki etkisini araştırmaktır. Araştırma 2012-2013 öğretim yılının bahar döneminde Ankara’da özel bir lisede yürütüldü. Araştırm...

Teaching physics concepts with the basic materials that are around us is one of the beauties of physics. Without expensive lab materials and long experiments, many physics concepts can be taught to students using simple tools. Demonstrations with these tools can be presented as discrepant events that surprise, amaze, or puzzle students. Greenslade1...

Electroscopes are sensitive instruments useful for investigations of static electricity. They are devices that are used for detecting whether an object is charged or uncharged. They also determine the type of charge. Their operation is based on the principle of like sign charge repulsion.

Laboratuvar çalışmaları fen öğretiminin olmazsa olmazlarından biri kabul ediliyor (Arzi, 2003). Laboratuvar aktiviteleri ile konuların takviye edilmesi, yeni fen öğretimi programlarının göz önünde bulundurduğu önemli bir faktördür. Öğretmenlerin laboratuvar çalışmalarını daha rahat ve kolay yapmaları için zaman ve malzeme gibi etkenlerin yanında on...

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The aim of this study is to determine the physics teacher’s views about changes made to physics curriculum and in-service training needs about new topics added. To achieve this purpose, a survey is conducted via Internet. A questionnaire of 11 Likert-type items was used as a data collection tool. Data supplied by the participants were cleaned and f...

Orta öğretim fizik öğretmenleri, 2008-2009 eğitim öğretim yılının başlaması ile birlikte 9. sınıflardan başlamak üzere içerik ve yapı bakımından farklı bir müfredatla baş başa kaldılar. Yeni programın birinci dereceden uygulayıcıları olan öğretmenlerin program hakkındaki görüşlerini almak ve hizmet içi eğitim ihtiyaçlarını belirlemek için bir anket...

Bu çalışma, doğru çözüme ulaşabilmek için kritik düşünme gerektiren fizik sorularına dikkat çekmek ve öğretmenleri, derslerde bu tip soruları çözmeye teşvik etmek amacıyla yürütülmüştür. Bu amaçla öğrencilerimizin kritik düşünmeden çözdüklerinde, çoğunlukla beklenenin tam tersi veya beklenenden çok farklı cevaplar buldukları soru örnekleri hazırlad...