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Kesici, Sahin – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2007
The purpose of this study is to determine the guidance and counseling needs of middle school (i.e., sixth, seventh, and eighth grades) students from their points of views by using qualitative research techniques. In addition, while collecting the data, semi-structured interview technique is used as a method of data collection. The study was…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Grade 8, Educational Counseling, Career Guidance
Tuncer, Gaye; Sungur, Semra; Tekkaya, Ceren; Ertepinar, Hamide – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2007
The purpose of the present study was to assess Turkish elementary school students' and pre-service teachers' environmental attitudes, and to explore whether there was a significant difference in the attitudes towards the environment of the above mentioned two groups. Data was gathered by circulating a 45-item "Environmental Attitude…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Environmental Education, Grade 8
Altun, Eralp – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2008
This study has pedagogical implications in view of rapidly growing technological development and widespread use of the Internet in instruction. The spread of online homework sites with highly commercial aims has opened a new research area regarding the structure, aim and the significant role of homework in education. Particularly, the changes in…
Descriptors: Homework, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Grade 6

Koca, Canan; Asci, Hulya F. – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2006
The purpose of this study was to examine self-presentational concern of Turkish adolescents with regard to the gender composition of physical education (PE) class and also to investigate the attitude toward PE and PE class preferences of Turkish adolescents based on this concern. A total of 1,807 eighth-grade students (936 females and 871 males)…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Grade 8, Adolescents, Physical Education
Dasdemir, Ikramettin; Doymus, Kemal; Simsek, Ümit; Karaçöp, Ataman – Online Submission, 2008
This study has been carried out in order to determine the effect of computer animations in teaching acid and base topics in science and technology courses on the academic success of the primary school students and the opinions of students related to teaching with the animations. This research was conducted by the participation of 55 students from…
Descriptors: Animation, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Technology Education
Bahar, Mehmet; Polat, Mahmut – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2007
In this study it was aimed to i) diagnose the topics that are perceived as difficult at the level of 6-8 science classes and ii) find out the reasons behind of these difficulties as well as propose suggestions to remedy these difficulties. Eighteen science teachers and three hundred students attending different types of secondary schools…
Descriptors: Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Science Teachers, Science Instruction

Ertepinar, Hamide; Geban, Omer – Educational Research, 1996
In a science class of 43 Turkish eighth-graders, an experimental group performed investigative lab activities; controls used worksheets. Although the pretest showed similar logical thinking ability, after 5 weeks of instruction the experimental group had significantly higher science achievement scores. (SK)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Inquiry, Investigations
Kaya, Osman Nafiz; Dogan, Alev; Gokcek, Nur; Kilic, Ziya; Kilic, Esma – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of multiple intelligences (MI) teaching approach on 8th Grade students' achievement in and attitudes toward science. This study used a pretest-posttest control group experimental design. While the experimental group (n=30) was taught a unit on acids and bases using MI teaching approach, the…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Multiple Intelligences, Student Attitudes
Simonson, Michael, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2014
For the thirty-seventh year, the Research and Theory Division and the Division of Instructional Design of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) sponsored the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Jacksonville, Florida. This year's Proceedings…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, Visualization
Saka, Arzu; Cerrah, Lale; Akdeniz, Ali Riza; Ayas, Alipasa – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2006
The study was carried out with 175 Turkish students by using drawings at different ages understanding of gene, DNA and chromosome concepts. Students from 8th, 9th, 11th grades and, science and biology student teachers were simply asked to draw the structure of gene, DNA and chromosome in a cell and also to give explanations about these three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Genetics, Grade 8, Grade 9
Kaya, Osman Nafiz; Ebenezer, Jazlin – Online Submission, 2006
The aim of this study was to investigate the factors affecting the implementation of Multiple Intelligences (MI) Theory in K-8 classrooms in Turkey. First, it was made meetings in small groups (3 or 4) with 38 teachers in one of the first MI schools in Turkey during the first semesters. They were 22 elementary teachers from Grades 1 to 5 and 16…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Middle Schools, Knowledge Level, Foreign Countries
Girgin, Umit – International Journal of Special Education, 2006
The purpose of the current study is to evaluate the reading comprehension of hearing impaired 8th graders who are being trained through an auditory-oral approach. The evaluation is conducted through miscue analysis using complex stories. To realize this aim, the following research questions are formulated. (1) To what extent do hearing impaired…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Semantics, Syntax, Deafness
Yenilmez, Ayse; Sungur, Semra; Tekkaya, Ceren – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2005
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of gender and grade level on students' logical thinking abilities. A total of 174 sixth, seventh, and eighth-grade students participated in the study. Test of Logical Thinking (TOLT) was administered to determine students' reasoning abilities. A two-way multivariate analysis of variance…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Multivariate Analysis, Thinking Skills, Gender Differences
Aypay, Ahmet; Erdogan, Mehmet; Sozer, Mehmet A. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2007
The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences among schools using student responses in the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study-1999 (TIMSS-99) data. Schools were classified into two groups based on eighth grade students' overall achievement in science. Two different discriminant function analyses were performed to distinguish…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Projection Equipment, Discriminant Analysis, Foreign Countries
Ünal, Suat; Costu, Bayram – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2005
The aim of this study is to investigate grade-eight students' conceptions of sinking and floating. Firstly, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 students to determine students' difficulties and to develop a multiple-choice diagnostic test. In designing the content of the interview questions, grade-eight science curriculum, research on…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Grade 8, Semi Structured Interviews, Multiple Choice Tests