This study invesIigated the computer selfefficacy of th~freshman, sophomore and junior in the division of Elementary Mathematics Teaching. During the data gathering process, only juniors completed a single "Computer Literacy" cOUl'se. Two instroments were used for the study: A computer self-efficacy scale and a questionnaire for co11ecting demographic information incJuding experience in computers, access to computers and frequencies of using computers. The results showed that the perceived computer selfefficacy of the students are low and it gave high relation with the access and computer experience.

Keywords: Perceived computer sclf-efficacy, mathematics teacher candidates
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Keywords: Educational administration, postgraduatc supervision, postgraduate education
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The purpose of this study was to find out how the teachers use computers in education -if any- and how they perceive the use of computers in education in Turkey. The data for this study were collected through 95- item survey that inquired about a wide range of issues among 202 teachers in 27 randomly selected schools in three Turkish cities. The survey results indicated that most of the subjects held the view that the use of computertechnology in,schools is beneficia! forteaching-leaming process and only few of them indicated some concems about using computers in teaching.

Keywords: Computer use in education, teachers' views about computer use in education
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There are many international youth works on individual development of children and youngsters. Scouting along with formal education, is one of the world's most important youth movements which can shape up youths for the future. Scouiing, which is the world's largest non-formal educational movement uses a method in order to achieve its aims. The scouting movement aims to help bring up individuals that are responsible, sensitive, able to express themselves and who can fight for their rights into society. The "Patroırream System" established within scouting is the largest attributing factor in the social development of an individual. Members of a team are in constant interaction with each other. The aim of this study, is to present the attributjon of the scouting movement upon the social development of youths.

Keywords: scoUling, socini development, team (patrol) system
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The aim of this study is to determine wether there is a relationship between the students' aUitudes,behaviour and the educational seuing. Secondary education students and higher education students were participatedin the study. To elicit the views of the students involved a questionnaire",ith 12 items was administeredto 73 secondary education students and to 145 higher education students. The results obtained indicate that gaining information and having a good job have become importantin relation to the increased age insteadof having good marks.Also the studentshave poor cooperative study views and poor responsibility. However in the environment protecton-energy saving topic, a collobarative studyof teachers, students and parents seems to be an effective technique for the students

Keywords: School education, leaming environment, cooperative study, responsibility
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Since the 1997-1998 academic year, for studentteachers to deve10p their skills and gain experience with the practice teaching at primary, secondary, and high schools, within the framework of "The National Education Development Project of The Council of Higher EducationThe WorldBank", cooperationbetweenfacultiesof education and these school s was initiated and the undergraduate programs of faculties of ~ducationwere re-structured. In order to provide guidance to the related individuals and institutions in the application of the courses: School Experience I, School Experience II, and Practice Teaching, Faculty and School Cooperation, a guidebook that presents general information and suggested activities for all departmentsof the faculties of education was published in 1998. Since there was not asimilar course in the previous undergraduate programs, and the course was first applied in the 1997-98 academic year, this study is limited with the analysis of the School Experience i course. In addition,the suggested activities in the Faculty and School Cooperation Guidebook are evaluated in terms of appropriacy for the students teachers at the German Language Teaching Department,and suggestions are made accordingly.

Keywords: German Language Teaching, School Experience I, Activities
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The study has been done by the aim of determining the students' knowledge of basic biological concepts prior to the advance courses and the factOfs affecting their preparation. 369 students of 1998- 1999 at Biology and Biology Education departments of II faculties from Ankara, Istanbul and İzmir were surveyed as samples. Experimantal procedures were, preparation of concept maps of basic biological concepts that were covered in General Biology courses and a knowledge measurement test on these concepts, also a 12-item questionnaire and an interview were applied to detennine the factOfs affecting to the student leaming. The item analysis, validity and reliability of subject test were determined by the answers. The results of the subject test, questionnaire and interviews were statistically evaiuated, basic concept knowledge of students and factors affecting leaming were discussed.

Keywords: General Biology course, conceptualleaming, factors affecting leaming.
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The purposc of this research is to invcstigate prcservice elementary school teachers' understanding of hcat and temperature in science teaching according to their errors, misconceptions, gender. The samplc of this study 65 second year students of primary education in the Deparment of Elemantary Education Faculty ofEducation, Hacettepe University. This study was carried out in 2000 -2001. Data were coIlected through a test including LOopcn-ended questions.

Keywords: misconception, science education, heat and temperature
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The purpose of this review is to lınderline some important aspects of school experiences stated in the literature. All individuals desire a better-educated teacher ın the field. Even though universities and schools of education are insisting on educating future teachers more competently than ever before, teacher educatOfs are kind of negligent to the realities during teaching practicum. As a requirement of pre-service education, teacher candidates are being sent to public schools to practice what they have leamt in college. But what they have encountered should be known by educators to overcome the problems. This review mainly concentrates on the relationship among ıeacher candidates and supervising teachers and its unexpected results.

Keywords: Supervision skills, supervising teachers, school experiences, professional interaction
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The purpose of this research is to investigate preservice teachers' knowledge necessity and used knowledge foundations related to AIDS according to gender. The samp1e inc1udes 100 preservice teachers selected from Faculty of Education in Hacettepe University in 2000-2001 academic year. Data were collected 10 openended questions. In this studyonly 4 of the 10 questions were taken into consideration.

Keywords: AIDS educatian, HIV, preservice science teachers.
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An information society needs individuals who have lifelong learning skills. Information literacy, the ability to find and use information, is the keystone of lifelong learning. Information literacy skills should be taught to students and should be integrated to the school curriculum. In this paper, a study to teach information literacy skills, in a primary school to 6th grade students,is introducedand the findings of the studyare examined.

Keywords: information literacy, information literacy for K-12, teaching information literacy skiils. .
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The aehievement scores that are identified as a result of the university entrance exam determinewhieh fields students will study in the university. These exams include numerical fields (Biology, Physics, Chemistry and Mathematies) and verbal fields (Social Sciences, Turkish) and in these exams three different types of scores are computed: numerical, verbal and equal weight. In orderto get higher scores, studentsoften attendto private edueation institutions. These edııeational praetices are controlled by the pilot exams and it is aimed at remediating the deficient knowledge of students. In this study, with the aim of determining the impaet of private edueation institutionsto the achievement of studentin the university entranceexam, all data regarding 314 subjeets who attended to a private educationinstitutionwere statistically analysed. As a result of this statisticalanalysis, the aehievement was found to be increased following the private education. The other majo! findings are that there was a statistically significant relationship between pilot exams (ÖSS-AD and ÖSSD) and Student Seleetion Exam (ÖSS) and that differem outcomes were observed in the regions involved.

Keywords: ÖSS (Student Selection Exarnination), Private Education Institutions,Student Achievement.
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In ehemistry, putting laboratories into learning environments is extremely importanLFrom this point of view, the V-diagrams are one of the importantdevelopments in science edueation. Why the V-diagrams are importanttools for leaming in laboratory, how they integrate theorica! knowledge with laboratory observations and especially how the V-diagrams can be prepared have been explaned in this study. Three experlments have been selected from high school chemistry textbooks. V-diagramseoneerned with these experiments have been performed and given as examples. These experiments are "the comparison of different matters' sohibility, "effeet of temperature on solubility" and" effeet of concentrationon reaction rate".

Keywords: V-Diagrams, chemistry courses, laboratory work
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Self-efficacy beliefs have received increasing attention in educational studies. According to Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory, self-efficacy was measuredas two distinct constructs, personal self-efficacy and outcome expectancy. Self-efficacy can be defined as the teachers' belief in hislher ability to perform teaching; and outcome expectancy reflects a teacher's belief that student achievement can be influenced by effective teaching. The purpose of this study is to assess preservice biology teachers' self-efficacy beliefs with regard to biology teaching. For this purpose, Biology Teaching Efficacy Belief Instrument (BTEBI) was administered to 29 preservice biology teachers at the Middle East Technical University. The results indicated positive efficacy beliefs expressed by the most of the preservice teachers regarding their ability to teach biology

Keywords: Self-efficacy, outcome expectancy, biology teaching, preservice biology teachers
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The purpose of this study was to determine 9th grade students' misconceptions about simple electric circuits and to explore the relationship between these misconceptions and some selected variables (students' gender and experience about electric circuits). Review of literatureconceming simple electric circuits has shown that high school studentshave many misconceptions aboutthis topic and in order to assess them, a diagnostic test was develaped. The test, which was named as Simple Electric Circuits Concept Test, is formed of 13 practical and 8 theoretical questions. Mareaver, a questionnaire was also given to students to determine their experience about simple electrk circuits. The study took place during 2000- 2001 fall semester with the participationof 76 high school students. Results of analysis showed that high school students had considerable degree of misconceptions conceming simple electric circuits and these misconceptionswere c10sely related with students' gender and previous experiences about simple electric circuits.

Keywords: simple electric circuits, misconceptions, gender difference, experience
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Corrosion, as a topic, is one of the mostimportanttopics in chemistry, physics and biology. Corrosion may be defined as the transforming of metals into their natural state through the reaction with environment. Along with the innovations in industry its importance has raised and it leads to the fact that teaching it to the students is of great importance. In the science programs at secondary education, there is no topic related to corrosion. Thus, the secondary education chemistry programs were reviewed firstly. Then a 14 item survey questionnairewas developed to measure the knowledge of secondary education and university studentsregarding the reasons of corrosionand their views on the topic. Questionnaire was administratedto 445 students.The findings obtained indicated that the students know the reasons of daily events but that they were not aware of the relationship between these daily events and corrosion. As a result a framework that is necessary to cover corrosion and related suggestions are developed.

Keywords: Chemislry Educalion, Curriculum, Corrosion. Teaching-leaming
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The pursopes of this sudy was to identify deficiences in educational programs in the Turkish secondary education system in four cities of Southeastern Anatolia. In orderto identify the deficiences of the system, the perceptions of administrators, teachers and students were investigated through questionnaires. The subjects of the study were 2737 students, 13] teachers and 38 administrators.Their perceptionswere compared and some statistica]ly significant differences were observed. The results revea]edthat; a)the presentcurriculumin secondary education in Türkiye is not comprehensive enough to meet the needs of the pupils in the system, b) according to students, teachers and administrators included in the research, the curriculum in use in high school in secondary education can not meet the social, professional, mora] and aesthetic needs of the pupils involved in the system, and it is a]so insufficient to meet the current needs of the countary, c) students state that teacherhave been using classica] methods, d) according to students, teachers and administrators counselling programs in their school curriculumare ineffective, e) studentsbelieve that program in use in their schools is comprehensive enough to prepare them for the next educationa] level, f) social and extra curricularactivities are considered to be less than adequate by the subjects.

Keywords: educationalprograms,creative thinking, guidance and counselling, comprehensive school curriculum
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The purpose of this study is to compare the latest situations of optic courses teaching in Turkeyand in Germany. In this context, Turkish and German optic course books were exemined, and the subjects that cause leaming difficulties and misconceptions eveluated in terms of subject teaching and finally some suggestions were provided. As a result, it is expected that some additions and corrections should be made in Turkish curriculum and the course books. Moreover, the content of optic courses should be taken from the daily life; however, most of the time this point is ignored

Keywords: Optic courses in Turkey, Turkish course books, Optic CDursesin Germany, German CDursebooks.
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This study was performed to determine what content in biology was perceived as difficult for Turkish students to leam and whether gender differences affect students' perceptions. A total of 368 high school students, 184 were boys and 184 were girls, participatedin the study. Descriptive statisties was used to determine frequencies of diffieult, moderate and easy biology concepts as perceived by students. Hormones, genes and chromosomes, mitosis and meiosis, nervous system, and Mendelian geneties were found to be difficult concepts for studentsto leam. On the other hand, the studentsidentified cells andorganelles, and ecology as easy topies. The results of independent-t test indicated signifieant difference in perception by gender (t=3.09, p=ü.OO2). To determine possible reasons behind students' leaming difficulties, 14 high school biology teachers were interviewed

Keywords: Öğrenme zorluklan,biyoloji kavranılan, cinsi yet farkı
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Training of chemistry engineers, chemists andchemistry teachers is provided by the faculties of engineering , arts and sciences and the education. In these institutions,organic chemistry course and laboratorywork have importance.In the organic chemistry courses, the structure of organic compounds and their features are given; in the organic chemistry laboratories the reactions of these compoundsare studied and various products are produced. In this study it is aimed at evaluating the knowledge of university studentson the organic laboratoryapplications,their knowledge on laboratory techniques and on the efficiency of applications. Data are collected through the use of questionnaire. As a result of ana!yses, the students from threedifferent university had insufficient knowledge on the following subjects: separationof chemica! compounds,purification procedures, methods of purification control, spectroscopic methods, identification of structures in the chemica! compounds. Furthermore they stated negative views on the efficiency of the organic chemistry laboratory applications.

Keywords: Organie Chemistry Laboratory Techniques, Effideney of Applieations
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In this research, first of all, the problems of foreign students and Turkish University students have been compared and later on some variables which influence the problems of foreign university students have been studied.

Keywords: Foreign Student, Turkish Student, Problem, University
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