In order to carry out effective research, Master's degree students are expected to have a good command of the literature. They need to know how to carry out a literature review and how to synthesise the studies found as a result of the review and turn them into an article if desired. As the shortcomings made at this stage will affect the whole…

In this study, it was investigated whether the Research Skills Teaching Program (RSTP) prepared for elementary school 4th grade students was effective in imparting the sub-skills required for conducting the research process to students. To this end, pretest-posttest control group design; one of the quasi-experimental designs; was employed. The…

Scientific research is the process of collecting, analyzing, interpreting, evaluating, and reporting data in a planned and systematic way in order to find reliable and valid solutions to problems. Anxiety about scientific research directs the research behavior of the individual and causes feelings such as reluctance to do research, insecurity,…

Research has gained a degree of recognition as a skill to develop at tertiary level, and a requirement to get a Bachelor's degree, for higher education is supposed to improve critical thinking, encourage innovation, thereby improving the quality of both teaching and research. Responding to the calls of earlier research to further explore students'…

This article aims to investigate problem-based learning in teaching geography in higher education. In addition to the main goal, the research set out to introduce a practical study that can facilitate graduate students' academic research skills. The study was conducted using action research. Findings obtained from qualitative interviews and the…

In this study, the similarities between the actions of design students in product design project courses and open innovation processes were examined through a survey conducted among the students. Studies on open innovation were evaluated together with up-to-date discussions about design and its role in innovation and business environment in…

The purpose of this research is to examine the insights of preservice teachers' new literacies throughout online research and comprehension. The study is grounded in an online research and comprehension perspective. In the study, the action research design of qualitative approaches was selected as the method. The participants in the research were…

This study aimed at examining the predictors of quality of science fair (SF) projects in the light of pre-service teachers' evaluation of SF rubric' domains. These projects were selected by judges in A city for the A Regional Exhibition of Science and Mathematics Project Study for Primary School Students: The SF projects were evaluated by thirty…

This paper examines the attitudes of student teachers in social studies towards an educational research assignment, undertaken in an educational research methods course given at the Fatih Faculty of Education at Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey. A questionnaire containing open-ended questions and an interview were used in the data-collection…

The "ISSS Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. (Individual papers contain references.) [For the 2009 proceedings, see ED504973.]