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Elby, Andrew; Yerdelen-Damar, Sevda – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Curriculum Development: Theory into Design.] In the "standard" physics education research curriculum-development model, researchers are cast primarily as producers of curricula and instructors are cast primarily consumers, i.e., adopters and adapters. We illustrate a complementary model in…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Teachers, Science Curriculum, Educational Researchers
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Pekel, Feyzi Osman; Akçay, Süleyman – Online Submission, 2018
Teachers are expected to consider the implications of recommendations made in educational research. In-service teachers are primary actors who play a leading role in education, so their attitudes towards educational research and researchers are more important than those of pre-service or trainee teachers. This study aims to find out inservice…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Educational Research, Positive Attitudes
Çetin, Ali – Online Submission, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate doctoral dissertations on physics education conducted in Turkey between the years of 2010 and 2015. The year, institution, language, researcher's gender, advisor position, research design and method, number and properties of samples, subject, data collection tools and theme distribution of the doctoral…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physics, Science Education, Doctoral Dissertations
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Yerdelen-Damar, Sevda; Elby, Andrew; Eryilmaz, Ali – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2012
This study explored how researchers' views about the form of students' epistemologies influence how the researchers develop and refine surveys and how they interpret survey results. After running standard statistical analyses on 505 physics students' responses to the Turkish version of the Maryland Physics Expectations-II survey, probing students'…
Descriptors: Physics, Psychometrics, Researchers, Epistemology
Mehmetlioglu, Deniz; Ozdem, Yasemin – Online Submission, 2014
Researches carried out all around the world showed that students learn more effectively if they are able to make connections between subjects. This case reports based on an investigation of how mathematics concepts were connected to science concepts by a science teacher in an elementary science classroom, and on the science teacher's views about…
Descriptors: Units of Study, Science Instruction, Video Technology, Researchers
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Tasar, Mehmet Fatih – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2007
The conversation between myself and Professor Lederman took place in Malmö, Sweden on August 25, 2007. The purpose of the conversation was to elaborate on the past, present and future of nature of science research and also to provide insights for beginning researchers. In this text I am providing the questions about which we talked and my…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Scientific Research, Reflection, Foreign Countries