Eğitim Bilimleri Fakültesi / Faculty of Education
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Item On the Matrix Representation of Bezier Curves and Derivatives in E3(2023) Kilicoglu, Seyda; Senyurt, Suleyman; 0000-0003-1097-5541; GRY-4465-2022In this study we have examined, the coefficient matrix of a cubic, 4th order and nth order Bezier curves using combinations as the elements to get a pattern. Also their first, second, third derivativies are examined based on the control points, in matrix represation in E3. Further as a simple way has been given to find the equation of a Bezier curves and its derivatives using matrix product, based on the control points.Item English Language Testing and Evaluation Course in English Language Teacher Education Programs in Turkiye: Who, What, and How?(2023) Sahin, Sevgi; Hatipoglu, CilerThis study investigates the current state of a language testing course taught in Foreign Language Education Departments in Turkiye. It examines who teaches the ELTEC, how course content is determined, and which topics and textbooks are covered. The participants of the study included 21 ELTEC instructors from 13 universities. Semi-structured interviews and documentation were utilized to collect the data. Adopting a mixed-methods research design, the researchers collected qualitative data and employed a rigorous systematic content analysis. Then they quantized the content analysis results to provide descriptive findings. The results reveal that teacher educators often use a textbook-based approach to create the ELTEC content; therefore, it falls behind the recent developments in LTA. The content coverage is heavily summative assessment-oriented with little or no focus on formative assessment and giving feedback. It is suggested that the ELTEC instructors and curriculum developers make qualitative and quantitative changes to the ELTEC to improve the Language Assessment Literacy of future EFL teachers by means of a situated-LTA training approach. (c) Association of Applied Linguistics. All rights reservedItem Being a Young Speaker of the Gagauz Language in Post-Soviet Context(2023) Inan, Kayhan; Kirmizi, Gulin DagdevirenThe concept of identity assumes great importance in the context of endangered languages. In this study, the identity perceptions of Gagauz adolescents were investigated using Bucholtz and Hall's (2005) sociocultural linguistic approach. To this end, semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with three adolescent Gagauz speakers who had distinctive profiles in terms of Gagauz identity. Bucholtz and Hall's indexicality principle, specifically the use of WE- and THEY- references, was taken into consideration in the analysis of interviews held with young Gagauz speakers. In the semistructured interviews, the participants responded to specific questions that probed self-identification, the relationship between the Gagauz language and ethnicity, the future of Gagauz people and Gagauz language, and perceived linguistic (in)security when speaking Gagauz and Russian languages, as well as language choice at school. The findings show that the participants have different profiles and use various indexical references and linguistic strategies regarding group membership. The influence of Russia and the Russian language on Gagauz identity is salient in social life, bureaucracy, and politics. As a result, the strong identification with ethnic identity and perception of Gagauz identity does not help maintain the Gagauz language in Gagauzia.Item New Ways of Identification: Black Diaspora and Memory in Caryl Phillips's In the Falling Snow(2023) Kirpikli, Deniz; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0330-593X; HIZ-6637-2022As a second-generation immigrant author Caryl Phillips often depicts the distress of black British people of Afro-Caribbean descent in Britain in his works. His novel In the Falling Snow, published in 2009, illustrates the evolution of the notion of black Britishness through the memory of the post-war generation and more recent transcultural connections. A network of transcultural connections involving the black diaspora and the immigrants from Eastern Europe characterize contemporary England described in the novel. This article argues that the novel gestures towards a more inclusive society through transcultural memory that moves across generations and different immigrant communities. The experience of Eastern Europeans as immigrants echoes the memories of the post-war generation and opens up a space to discuss post-racial possibilities. Thus, the novel provides a perspective to observe the transmission of memory over a couple of decades and the role of migration as a site of transcultural memory.Item On Approximation of Helix by 3(rd), 5(th) and 7(th) Order Bezier Curves in E-3(2022) Kilicoglu, SeydaApproximation of helices has been studied by using in many ways. In this study, it has been examined how a circular helix can be written as Bezier curve and written the 3(th) degree, 5(th) degree, and the 7(th) degree Maclaurin series expansions of helices for the polynomial forms. Hence, they can be written cubic, 5(th) order, and 7(th) order Bezier curves, based on the control points with matrix form we have already given in E-3. Further we have given the control points of the Bezier curve based on the coefficients of the Maclaurin series expansion of the circular helix.Item On Approximation Sine Wave with the 5(Th) and 7(Th) Order Bezier Paths in Plane(2022) Kilicoglu, SeydaThere are many studies to approximate to sine curve or sine wave. In this study, it has been examined the way how the sine wave can be written as any order Bezier curve. First, it has been written the 5(th) and the 7(th) degree Maclaurin series expansion of the parametric form of sine curve. Also, they are 5(th) and the 7(th) order Bezier paths, based on the control points with matrix form in E-2. Hence it has been given the control points of the 5(th) and the 7(th) order Bezier curve based on the coefficients of the 5(th) and the 7(th) degree Maclaurin series expansion of the sine curves in three steps. Further it has been given the coefficients based on the control points of the 5(th) and the 7(th) order Bezier curve too.Item Navigating the Covid-19 Turbulence in Higher Education: Evidence from Turkish Faculty Members(2022) Orucu, Deniz; Kutlugun, H. ElifCovid 19 was the first pandemic of the modern era to strike with such virulence. We sought to understand this recent phenomenon and contribute to the empirical findings on the expectations from HEI leadership and management in Turkey. Drawing on the Turbulence Theory, we explored how the academic staff experienced the initial phase of the pandemic in Turkey and how they perceived the HE leaders' navigation of the crisis at the selected universities. Within qualitative phenomonology, data from semi-structured interviews with a convenient sample of 10 academic staff in five public and five private universities in Turkey, was analysed through content analysis. Findings highlighted the opportunities and challenges of the pandemic for the faculty at personal and organizational level in an intersectional pattern. Moreover, the ways HEI leaders navigated the crisis created binaries in the form of experience vs. inexperience and trust vs. distrust. The challenges derived from the rapid but ineffective decision-making processes and the heightened surveillance mechanisms over the academic staff; which in some cases resulted in lack of trust. Hence, the turbulence level was shaped by how the universities and their leaders addressed it. In such cases, practices of building trustworthy connections, more distributive forms of leadership and robust communication; which would help the leaders to navigate the turbulence at times of crises are significant. Further recommendations are provided for research, policy and practice.Item The Effects of Mental Games on Third Graders' Reading Comprehension Skills in Turkish Classes(2022) Erdem, Yasemin; Gok, Bilge; 0000-0002-1548-164X; 0000-0002-1492-8403With the study reported on here we set about to reveal the effects of mental games on third graders' reading comprehension skills in Turkish classes. The study group comprised 71 students, 35 of whom were included in the experimental group, and 36 in the control group. The experimental group played simple to difficult mental games selected by the researcher for 2 hours per week for 10 weeks. In the control group, the students continued with the traditional teaching process which excluded the playing of mental games until the end of the semester. Mental games like Whatzizz, detective, Q-bitz, Target 5, six, 3 stone, 9 stone, Skippity, Reversi, Kulami, that correspond to skills such as attention-concentration, reasoning, logical inference, and strategic thinking, were used. The study was conducted as a quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test control group design. The quantitative data were collected through the reading comprehension skill test. The pre-test data and the post-test-data collected through the test constituted the research data. The research data were analysed by using the 2-factor ANOVA test for mixed designs. The post-test scores of the students in the experimental group were higher than those of the students in the control group. The findings obtained from the quantitative analysis indicate that mental games had a positive effect on the Turkish reading comprehension of students in the experimental group as well as positive effects on students' skills such as strategic thinking, logical inference and reasoning.Item Post-migration ecology in educational leadership and policy for social justice: Welcoming refugee students in two distinct national contexts(2022) Arar, Khalid; Orucu, DenizUtilizing the post-migration ecological lens and the synthesized model of culturally relevant leadership formed by the authors, we aim to compare and analyze the policy outlines and school leadership responses to refugee education in Turkey and Germany; as the two main hosts of the largest number of refugees. Through comparative phenomenology, we draw on the semi-structured interviews, observations, and document analysis of policy papers in each context. Although both states employ an open-door policy, their educational policies show stark contrasts. The German schools benefit from the systematic guidance whilst in Turkey they find their ways through rule of thumb with colleagual collaboration within and across schools. We reckon this study would provide a space for collaboration and benchmarking between different contexts as well as illuminate on the policy-making processes, school-level practices, and research in this area.