Browsing by Author "Akbaba Altun, Sadegul"

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How To Improve The Quality Of Online Education From Online Education Directors' Perspectives
(2022) Akbaba Altun, Sadegul; Johnson, Tristan E.
COVID-19 pandemic showed once again the need for quality in online education all over the world. The aim of this research is to solicit how to improve the quality of online education from online education program directors' perspectives. The research was designed as a qualitative case study. Eight participants who were responsible for directing, managing, supervising and organizing online education programs participated to this study. The data were collected through interviews and were analyzed through content analysis. Eight dimensions were found to improve the quality of online education. These dimensions were focusing on students' needs; focusing on change in education; focusing on system as a whole; focusing on leadership; focusing on continuous improvement of online education; focusing on integrating learning and teaching theories into online education; focusing on research about online education; and focusing on quality of instructors.
Voices from the Field: What Do Turkish Students Suggest? A Socio-Ecological Study on School Belonging
(Başkent Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Fakültesi, 2024-04-29) Akbaba Altun, Sadegul; Turan Bora, Hatice
The study of school belonging has become increasingly important as the sense of belonging to school is a source of motivation that influences students' behaviour. This study aims to explore students' views on what society, principals, teachers, guidance counsellors, families and students should do to increase students' sense of school belonging. The study is a basic qualitative research. Eight hundred and seventy-six high school students from T & uuml;rkiye were asked to answer open ended questions about what school stakeholders should do to ensure that students feel a sense of belonging to school. This study found some different results compared to previous studies by revealing the expected behaviour of stakeholders outside the school, such as society and family. Belonging to school is highly complex and linked to some of society's most challenging problems and therefore needs to be examined within the school and its environment. For this reason, the research findings on what stakeholders should do to increase school belonging are presented within the framework of the socio-ecological systems model.