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Erdogan, Esra; Tunaz, Mehmet – Online Submission, 2012
This paper takes a brief look at external and internal demotivating factors among EFL young learners at Pozanti Regional Primary Boarding School (YIBO). In the search of the reasons of demotivation, a questionnaire consisting of 5-point Likert Scale, open-ended questions, observations and interviews were administered. Following the evaluation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
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Onemli, Mehmet; Yondem, Zeynep Deniz – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2012
The aim of this study was to determine the effect of psychoeducational group study regarding self regulation in learning on motivational beliefs and academic success of students. Pre and post tests with control group design were used in this study. Participants of the study consisted of 10th grade students at Anatolian High School.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychoeducational Methods, Self Management, Student Motivation
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Sezen Balcikanli, Gulfem – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2012
It was the aim of this study to investigate physical education undergraduate students' views on the use of social networking, one of the most typical representations of Web 2.0 technologies. In order to do so, the researcher, who was the instructor of the class, entitled "Fair Play Education in Sport", introduced Ning and its educational…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Interaction
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Ozel, Ali – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2009
In this research, the differentiation condition of teaching the learning strategies depending on the time which the first grade of primary school teachers carried out to form an information-process skeleton on student is tried to be found out. This process including the efforts of 260 teachers in this direction consists of whether the adequate…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Grade 1, Elementary School Teachers, Cognitive Processes
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Karakas, Ali – Teaching English with Technology, 2011
This article will provide an overview of whether students have positive motivational attitudes towards the use of computers for writing and communication. Firstly, it summarizes the basic theories of motivation and then explains the relationship between language and motivation, and the use of computers and motivation. Then, it aims to explore the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Dincer, Ali; Yesilyurt, Savas; Goksu, Ali – Online Submission, 2010
Autonomy is basically described as an individual's taking responsibility for his/her own learning and seen as one of the most significant features of life-long learning process today. Therefore modern language teaching approaches and innovations in this area have made language practitioners focus largely on the concept "autonomy" in…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Lifelong Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Erten, Ismail Hakki; Zehir Topkaya, Ece; Karakas, Muge – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2010
This article introduces an instrument that has been developed to explore motivation and attitudes of students towards reading in a foreign language (FL). To develop the instrument, initially 123 students were asked a set of qualitative questions to determine their affective reactions to reading in a FL. A content analysis of emergent data yielded…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Linguistics, Second Languages, Reading Motivation
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Ozdemir, M. Cagatay; Unsal, Haluk; Yuksel, Galip; Cemaloglu, Necati – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2010
The purpose of this study is to determine the preferences of Turkish academicians about the values of the most positive and negative characteristics that they want to see in their children, students, and colleagues. In this study, Bacanli's (2002) "the most positive" and "the most negative" adjectives data gathering tool is…
Descriptors: Universities, Private Colleges, Foreign Countries, Sampling
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Simonson, Michael, Ed.; Seepersaud, Deborah, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2019
For the forty-second time, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two volumes. Volume 1 contains 37 papers dealing…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Research and Development, Elementary Education
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Eren, Altay – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2009
Introduction: This study aimed to explore the possible changes in the Future Time Perspective (FTP) and Perceived Instrumentality (PI) over time as long as one academic semester, as well as to explore whether those changes in FTP and PI explained students' Graded Performance (GP) with regard to a specific course; educational psychology. Method: A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Course Content, Educational Psychology
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Yenilmez, Kursat; Cemrek, Fatih – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2008
Teaching is a profession that needs specialist knowledge and skill. Because of this, education of teachers is a crucial process. In Turkey, educating teacher candidates begins in the secondary schools in the new system. The aim of this study was to determine the motivational levels and motivational supplies for candidate teachers in the secondary…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Motivation, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries
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Halat, Erdogan; Peker, Murat – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2011
The purpose of this study was to compare the influence of instruction using WebQuest activities with the influence of an instruction using spreadsheet activities on the motivation of pre-service elementary school teachers in mathematics teaching course. There were a total of 70 pre-service elementary school teachers involved in this study. Thirty…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Mathematics, Teacher Motivation, Elementary School Teachers
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Eren, Altay – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2009
Based on the fact that the relationships among student teachers' efficacy beliefs, achievement goals, and conceptions about teaching and learning has remained to be investigated to date, this study aimed to examine student teachers' efficacy beliefs and achievement goals as predictors of their conceptions about teaching and learning. Results of…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement
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Klassen, Robert M.; Kuzucu, Elcin – Educational Psychology, 2009
This article presents a study of academic procrastination and associated motivation variables in 508 adolescents from a general secondary school in central Turkey. Girls reported higher levels of self-efficacy for self-regulation and predicted higher Turkish grades than boys, but there was no difference in levels of procrastination. Academic…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Student Motivation, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
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Korur, Fikret; Eryilmaz, Ali – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2012
Problem Statement: What do teachers and students in Turkey perceive as the common characteristics of effective physics teachers? Purpose of Study: The first aim was to investigate the common characteristics of effective physics teachers by asking students and teachers about the effects of teacher characteristics on student physics achievement and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Physics
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