Zara Ersozlu

The University of Newcastle, Australia · School of Education

Reflective thinking enables the individual to realize his or her own learning and thinking processes, reflect the weaknesses and strengths in them and find the suitable development and renewable methods for weak elements, and also further strengthen the strong elements. This study is built upon research regarding whether or not the acquisition of t...

The main purpose of the paper is to present some theoretical approaches and some methods providing assessment optimization in specialists’ accreditation in area of public health services. The results of research presented in this paper, include the model of multistage adaptive measurements and two methods for reliability and validity analysis, prov...

The aim of this study is to investigate prospective teachers' use and conceptualization of metaphors on reflective thinking. This study analyses the metaphorical conceptions of reflective thinking concepts of 71 PTs in a course on Principles and Methods in Instruction. Metaphors produced regarding reflective thinking fall under 9 categories and a t...

The purpose of this study was to examine the validity and reliability of a Turkish version of a Self-Regulated Practice Behavior Scale (SRP) for college students. The scale included measures of the theoretical constructs Social Influences, Method, Behavior, and Time management as sub-scales. The original SRP is a self-report instrument that was des...

1799 prospective elementary and prospective science teachers from six countries (Croatia, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey) participate in the study about the level of motivation toward science courses, pedagogy courses and self-efficacy. The most important findings were that choosing educational career as the first choice o...

Citation: Ersozlu, Z. (2024). The role of technology in reducing mathematics anxiety in primary school students. Contemporary Educational Technology, 16(3), ep517. https://doi.org/10.30935/cedtech/14717 Mathematics anxiety is a significant problem in education that affects students' learning outcomes, academic success, and well-being. This systemat...

Integrating machine learning (ML) methods in educational research has the potential to greatly impact upon research, teaching, learning and assessment by enabling personalised learning, adaptive assessment and providing insights into student performance, progress and learning patterns. To reveal more about this notion, we investigated ML approaches...

Emerging technologies continue to provide educators with pedagogical choices and embedded benefits. The use of 360-degree videos in virtual reality (VR) has capacity to develop professional noticing in teacher education. Pre-service teachers can use 360 videos to showcase immersive contexts and embodied pedagogies, understandings and reflections. N...

Computational thinking (CT) has been accepted and embraced by educators and researchers alike, but many questions remain surrounding what concepts and topics have been used in CT, what tools have been used to help teach CT, and the current range of research on CT. In this paper, we address those questions and the state of professional development (...

The present study focuses on exploring how Learning Analytics (LA) and Dispositional Learning Analytics (DLA) can be used to support dissimilar learners’ needs in mathematics. For this purpose, a scientific mapping methodology is used via bibliometric and content analytic methods. The results from this analytics and evaluative scientific mapping sh...

This study analyzed the latest four PISA surveys, 2009, 2012, 2015, and 2018, to explore the association between students’ ICT-related use and math and science performance. Using ICT Engagement Theory as a theoretical framework and a three-level hierarchical linear modeling approach, while controlling for confounding effects, ICT-related independen...

Mathematics anxiety in initial teacher education is a growing issue that reflects on teacher quality and their student’s maths anxiety and abilities. Previous studies have presented a range of different perspectives to mathematics anxiety. We aimed to explore further the reasons of mathematics anxiety in preservice teachers and suggest some interve...

Mathematics anxiety is well known and studied concept. Most of the studies have been focused on the effects of mathematical anxiety on students’ academic achievement, especially from the viewpoint of analysing large national and international data sets. We aim to bring a different perspective to the existing research on mathematics anxiety and resi...

This chapter outlines the methodology used to examine the extent to which out-of-field and in-field secondary school mathematics teachers accept/value/find problematic any of the following ‘military’ practices in mathematics: individual work, rules, speed, silence, surveillance, testing, competition, ranking, and a command-obedience teacher-student...

Authentic and performance assessments are recurrent terms in teacher education. However, their definitions and applications differ. Simulated learning environments have the capacity to address both assessment types. Assessing practicum performance has traditionally been limited to real life experiences in diverse school contexts, in diverse classro...

TeachLivE™, a mixed-reality simulated classroom technology, has been used in initial teacher education programs to provide repeatable experiential learning opportunities for students now for more than a decade and in more than 80 universities worldwide. However, no broad scale investigation has been conducted into how the platform has been used or...

The Times Tables Drill, in which students recite multiplication facts at high speed, is based on a 200 year-old American military education practice. Emphasising commands, obedience, rules, silence, separation, surveillance, speed, competition, testing and ranking, it makes students anxious as well as failing to support a conceptual understanding o...

The current research aims to explore the impact of Science and Mathematics teachers’ self-efficacy on their intentions to leave through the mediating effects of their affective wellbeing (stress, burnout, and depression). Data were collected from 329 teachers of Science and Mathematics who were selected randomly with a clustered sampling method fro...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the design and delivery of a lesson study unit in mathematics to pre-service primary teachers and to identify the opportunities and challenges resulting from the need to deliver the unit wholly online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach Cross-case analysis, using a before-and-a...

The purpose of this study was to explore the inter-relationships among students’ self-esteem, bullying victimization/perpetration behaviours, and perceived parental support, with a focus on how self-esteem mediates the association of parental support and bullying behaviours and how bullying mediates the association of parental support and self-este...

The goal of this study is to analyse the publications on mathematics anxiety to contribute to the development of the related literature. A total of 537 papers on mathematics anxiety published in various databases of Web of Science between 2000 and 2018 years were retrieved and analysed through bibliometric analysis approach. Bibliographic coupling...

TeachLivE TM, a mixed reality learning environment originating from University of Central Florida (2011), has recently been introduced to the Australian preservice teaching context by Murdoch University (2016) and the University of Newcastle (2017).This paper, the first of a program of research mapping the implementation of TeachLivE TM within the...

The existence of special schools aims to provide education opportunities and environment for physically and mentally disabled people. The provision of more exquisite and diversified services for parents, at ease, placing the children in the schools becomes an essential issue for current special schools. The special needs of students are more compli...

Motivation toward learning is crucial factor for the students from the beginning of their education and motivation toward learning is changing during education of students and the motivation is influences by many factors. The main aims of the research was to find out the motivation of high school students toward learning, the personality traits of...

The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which self-regulated study strategies and predictor variables predict performance success in instrumental performance college courses. Preservice music teachers (N = 123) from a music education department in two state universities in Turkey completed the Music Self-Regulated Studying Strategies...

The purpose of this study is to identify the aim of the teachers who change their professional field, their willingness, satisfaction level after the change, address the problems they encounter with and develop solutions towards these problems. Qualitative research method is constructed in the study. As a data collection tool, 10 semi-structured qu...

Clickers help to use instructional methods that make engage students in an active learning process based on meaningful learning as a result of their interactions and experiences within anonymously reflect their real answers to questions that asked to promote higher order thinking skills in an active learning environment. Students who reflect their...

This study was designed to investigate the relationship between the metacognitive awareness of university students and their solutions to the similar mathematical problem types. Participants were 97 freshmen from department of mathematics at a state university in Turkey. Two different scales were used for data collection: “Metacognitive Awareness I...

http://prezi.com/lcxr2mcvygnd/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share Rapid technological change requires educational environment to adopt its applications that will affect quality of educational outputs. The current venue for this rapid change is emergence of mobile devices in educational environments. The integration process of such tool...

This study examines four factors that predict the level of teaching motivation for prospective teachers (PTs): program types, gender, age, and personal reasons for choosing to teach as a career. The discriminant analysis was used to test whether statistically significant differences exist between PTs’ teaching motivation level and the four predicti...

The purpose of this study was to determine teachers' opinion about active learning activities in special education schools which educate students who are mentally disabled. Within this general framework, the special education teachers' knowledge about active learning concept and personal preferences to apply active learning activities in classroom...

The aim of this study is to investigate the reliability and validity of the Turkish version of Reasons for Teaching Questionnaire (RTQ) developed by Kyriacou, Hultgren, and Stephens in 1999. The scale was applied to 247 student teachers at Gaziosmanpasa University in Tokat. The result of the exploratory factor analysis (EFA) a four-factor structure...

The purpose of this study was to determine effect of of using photo camera in teaching geometrical objects on elementary mathematics students’ academic achievement. The study group consisted of 6th (experiment group: 8, control group: 8), 7th (experiment group: 7, control group: 7) and 8th (experiment group: 8, control group: 8) grades students in...

In today's world, it is important to transform theoretical knowledge into practice to follow and manage rapid changes in technology. Prospective teachers need to be well educated to improve teacher quality. In order to do that, they are required to have enough theoretical knowledge and practice in a real classroom environment. Therefore, the 'teach...

The purpose of this study is to examine the views of elementary school students, parents and teachers on the reasons of mathematic fears. For this purpose the interview questions asked the students (three questions), parents (two questions) and teachers (three questions) individually. In this qualitative research, we interview 140 elementary school...

In this research that aims revealing the strong and weak points of e-school application; it has been tried to identify the views of teachers and administrators about the success of e-school application. The research sample consists of 602 primary school teachers and administrators who are working in Tokat and its districts in Turkey. The data has b...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there was a relationship between the level of students’ using mathematical reasoning skills and using metacognitive learning strategies. The study was conducted at Tokat, Gaziosmanpasa University, Faculty of Education with the students from the first class of Elementary, Elementary Science, Socia...

Yansıtıcı düşünme becerileri, bireyin düşünme ve öğrenme süreçlerine ilişkin farkındalığına ek olarak, bu süreçlerdeki zayıf ve güçlü yönleri belirlemesi ve geliştirmek için planlama yapmasını gerektiren bir tür kendini değerlendirme becerisidir. Bu düşünme becerisinin gelişimi öğrencilerin hem başarılarını arttırma hem de bireysel gelişimlerini sa...

The purpose of this study is to determine the student teachers's learning and studying strategies. The research was conducted at Education Faculty of Gaziosmanpaşa University with 190 teacher students in their first year. Survey model was used. The scale of “Determining of Learning and Studying Strategies” was used as data gathering tool. According...

Bu araştırmanın amacı, ilköğretim birinci kademedeki öğretmenlerin çocuk edebiyatına duydukları ilginin ve bu edebiyattan yararlanma durumlarının belirlenmesidir.Çocuk edebiyatı, çocukların bilişsel, duyuşsal, kişilik ve toplumsal gelişimini destekleyen bir yandan da sanat eğitimi sürecini başlatıp devam ettiren bir daldır. Öğretmenin bu dala olan...

Felsefi görüşlere göre de eğitimin tanımı değişmektedir. Sözgelişi idealistlere göre insanın bilinçlice ve özgürce Allah’a ulaşmak için sürdürdüğü biteviye çabalardır. Realizme göre eğitim; yeni kuşağa kültürel mirası aktararak onları topluma uyuma hazırlama sürecidir. Pragmatizme göre eğitim; kişiyi yaşantıları inşa yoluyla yeniden yetiştirme süre...

The purpose of this study is to determine the problem solving skills of candidate teachers according to gender, different departments and university entrance examination score type. The population of this study is all the students from the Faculty of Education at Gaziosmanpasa University, Tokat; and the sample consists of 249 students in their firs...