Aksoy, Gokhan; Gurbuz, Fatih

The aim of this study is to identify the effects of Reading-Writing-Application technique, Learning Together technique and Traditional Teaching methods on increasing students' academic achievements in the unit "particular structure of matter" at the science and technology course. In addition, students' written opinions were received from students (RWAG and LTG) about Reading-Writing-Application and Learning Together techniques. This study included 92 students from three different classes at the 6 th grade of a primary school during the 2010-2011 academic year. One of these classes served as the Reading-Writing-Application Group (RWAG), using group Reading-Writing-Application Technique, the second one served as the Learning Together Group (LTG), using the Learning Together technique, and the last one served as the Traditional Teaching Group (TTG), using the Traditional Teaching methods. The main instruments for obtaining data were the Academic Achievement Test (AAT) and Students' Written Opinions (SWO). Academic Achievement Test was applied to the all treatments groups but Students' Written Opinions was only applied RWAG and LTG. The data obtained on instruments were evaluated by using descriptive statistic, one-way variance analysis ANOVA and content analysis according to qualitative approach. It was concluded from the research results that the teaching of the unit "particular structure of matter" via the Reading-Writing-Application technique was more effective in increasing students' academic achievements compared to Learning Together technique and the Traditional Teaching methods. In addition, the written opinions of RWAG students and LTG students showed that the students have some negative opinions about Cooperative Learning Method.

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Kahraman, Sakip; Yalcin, Sema Altun; Erkol, Mehmet; Kisoglu, Mustafa

The aim of the research is to investigate why students at the Faculty of Education use the Internet. The sample of the study consisted of 348 students (178 female, 170 male) enrolled in the Faculty of Education at Bayburt University in Turkey. The data was collected using a survey which is consisted of seven questions developed by the researchers. The obtained data was statistically analyzed and responses given by students were calculated as frequency (f) and percent (%) values. The findings indicated that students frequently use the Internet for academic purposes, general subjects and communication. Additionally, it was determined that students use the Internet on average a few times per week both for academic purposes and general subjects. It was found that students mostly downloaded text material from the Internet while they were searching a subject. According to the results of the study students prefer to access Turkish web sites more than English web sites for academic purposes. It is held that students use the Internet more than library while they are searching for academic purposes. Furthermore, it is stated that nearly half of students believed that the Internet services can take the place of the libraries. At the same time, majority of the students believed that the internet improves students' achievement.

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Metin, Mustafa; Coskun, Kerem; Birisci, Salih; Yilmaz, Gül Kaleli

The aim of this study is to determine the opinions of prospective teachers about utilizing the 5E instructional model. The study was carried out during spring semester of 2008 educational periods. The sample of the study consisted of 60 sophomore prospective teachers at the Department of Primary Teacher Education in Faculty of Education at Artvin Çoruh University in Artvin. In the study, qualitative research method was used. This study was conducted in three stages. In the first stage, the prospective teachers were given national education standards which were about fourth and fifth class Science and Technology course and then they were asked to prepare an activity appropriate for the 5E instructional model. In the second stage, they were asked to carry out those activities into classroom. In the last stage, semi-structured interviews were followed up with the prospective teachers. The results of study revealed that the prospective teachers have positive opinions on applying of the 5E instructional model in classroom. They believe that the 5E instructional model provides the students to learn the topic. But the prospective teachers complained that insufficient learning materials and equipments which were needed for applying to the 5E model in classroom environment. In addition to these results, prospective teachers said that designing and implementing activities takes too much time when activity is practiced in classroom.

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Metin, Mustafa; Yilmaz, Gul Kaleli; Birisci, Salih; Coskun, Kerem

The aim of this study is to investigate high school students' learning styles in terms of gender, grade level, type of school, graduation type of mother and father variables. The study was carried out at spring semester of 2010 with 660 high school students who were chosen as a sample from the cities of Artvin and Trabzon, in Turkey. "Kolb Learning Style Inventory" was used as a data collection tool. The inventory was used to determinate the students' learning styles as divergent, assimilator, convergent, and accommodator and the information sheet for demographic factors such as gender, grade level, school type, education of mother and father was used to collect information from students. The data were analyzed by using frequency, percent value, mean scores, standard deviation, independent samples t-test and one-way ANOVA. The results show that the dominant learning style among the students is accommodator and it is followed by divergent learning style. There was not significantly difference between students' learning style and gender except for "Active Experimentation (AE) and AE-RO", grade level "except for Concrete Experience (CE)", school type, education of mother "expert for Reflective Observation (RO)" and education of father.

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