Ulucay, Taner

This study aims to determine the art need levels of music teacher candidates with regards to sex and grade level variables. The data of the research were obtained from 102 music teacher candidates studying in the Department of Music Education at Erzincan Binali Yildirim University, Faculty of Education. Descriptive screening method was used in this study. The data was gathered through a ‘Scale of Need for Art Education’ developed by Taskesen (2017). The data were analysed by using SPSS Statistics 22 Programme and shown in tables. The data findings given in the tables were commented fastidiously. As a result of the study, no significant difference was found between the scores of need for art education with regards to students’ grade levels. As well, there was no significant difference between the scores of the need for art education with regards to sex despite the fact that the number of female students was higher than the number of male students.

Yazıcı, Mehmet; Yalçın Taşmektepligil, M.

This research aimed to determine whether the life quality of amputees was a significant predictor of their depression levels and whether there was a significant difference between the life quality levels and depression of amputee athletes and those leading sedentary lifestyles according to their marital status and disabled limbs. The data were collected from 202 amputees including 76 athletes and 126 sedentary. Personal Information Form, a 27-item Short Form Life Quality Scale, and Beck Depression Inventory were used as the data collection tools. The internal consistency coefficient calculated for the Life Quality Scale was 0.90, and it was 0.89 for Beck Depression Inventory in the study. The results of simple linear regression analysis performed for determining the life quality's strength of predicting depression revealed that the life quality scores of amputees were a negative significant predictor of their depression scores. It was determined that married individuals had significantly higher life quality scores and lower depression scores when compared to single individuals. In terms of the disabled limb, the difference between the life quality scores of individuals with arm-leg and foot-leg amputation was found to show a significant difference rather than those with leg amputation. In addition, it was noticed that the depression scores of the individuals with foot and leg amputation were significantly higher than those with arm amputation. Consequently, it was possible to mention that life quality affected depression, and sport was an important instrument for increasing the life quality and decreasing the depression levels of amputees. Appropriate sportive activities should be emphasized to achieve desired life quality levels and relieve depression of disabled people.

Özbaş, Mehmet; Mukhatayeva, Dinara

The importance of pedagogical formation training is remarkable for developing the professional competences of pre-service teachers. One of the basic functions of pedagogical formation is getting pre-service teachers have competences on teaching design through cooperative learning experiences in a social learning environment. During higher education, in-class experiences generally include socio-pedagogical learning processes fulfilled under the guidance of lecturers. The purpose of this research was to determine the views of pre-service teachers related to the development of pedagogical formation training and design competences. The research was carried out with 428 pre-service teachers who had pedagogical formation training in Erzincan University in 2016-2017 academic year. “The Scale for Pedagogical Formation Training, and Developing Design Competences of Pre-Service Teachers” was developed by the researchers. During the process of scale development, pre-implementation was administered with the participation of 83 pre-service teachers, and the scale was determined to have 2 factors. Total variance explained by the factors was 61.695%; and alpha reliability coefficient for the first factor was .923, and it was found to be .863 for the second factor. According to research findings, it was noticed that the perceptions related to the factor of “the quality of pedagogical formation training” had “high” level, and the perceptions related to the factor of “development of teaching design competences” had “medium” level performance.