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Sahingoz, Selcuk – ProQuest LLC, 2017
One of the most important goals of science education is preparing effective science teachers which includes the development of a science pedagogical orientation. Helping in-service science teachers improve their orientations toward science teaching begins with identifying their current orientations. While there are many aspects of an effective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness
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Kayaoglu, M. Naci – Educational Action Research, 2015
Action research is characterized by a new paradigm of empowering teachers to monitor their own practices in a more autonomous manner with a vision of challenging and improving their own techniques of teaching through their own participatory research. Yet in spite of this apparently radical shift in the function of the teacher from the constant…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Action Research, Centralization, Case Studies
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Ilhan, Nail; Sözbilir, Mustafa; Sekerci, Ali Riza; Yildirim, Ali – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2015
Research results demonstrate that there is a gap between educational research and practice. Turkey is not an exception in this case. This study aims to examine to what extent and how educational research and resources are being followed,understood and used in classroom practices by science teachers in Turkey. A sample of 968 science teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Educational Research, Teaching Methods
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Bumen, Nilay T. – Professional Development in Education, 2009
The purpose of this study was to analyze the impact of a professional development (PD) program on teacher self-efficacy and classroom practice. Thirty-eight in-service teachers from a foundation school in Izmir participated in this study. Multiple sets of data for this study came from the Turkish teachers' sense of efficacy scale, classroom…
Descriptors: Small Group Instruction, Student Projects, Self Efficacy, Focus Groups