Baş, Fatih; Mert, Mehmet

In the research, it was aimed to determine the level of anxiety and metacognitive awareness of secondary school students about mathematics lesson, whether these levels change according to gender and class level and examine explaining status of these levels in mathematical achievements. The research, designed on the basis of the cross-sectional screening method, was carried with 1553 secondary school students. Two-step clustering analysis, independent t-test, one-way variance analysis and linear regression analysis were used to analyse the data. The participants were grouped into three according to their mathematics achievement and into two according to their metacognitive awareness and mathematics anxiety. The metacognitive awareness of the students with high achievement was found to be higher and the mathematics anxiety was lower than the students in moderate and low achievement group. It was found that the metacognitive awareness and mathematics anxiety scores explain the mathematics achievement significantly. It was also determined that as the metacognitive awareness scores increased, mathematics achievement increased significantly; on the other hand, as the mathematics anxiety scores increased, the mathematics achievement was meaningfully reduced. In addition, it was found that the metacognitive awareness had less effect on mathematics achievement compared with the mathematics anxiety.

Gökkurt Özdemir, Burçin; Şahin, Ömer; Başıbüyük, Kani; Erdem, Emrullah; Soylu, Yasin

The aim of our research is to determine the change in the pedagogical content knowledge levels of the teachers on numbers in the period from their university education to their active teaching profession. The sample of the study is composed of a total of 210 people, 67 of whom are third grade pre-service mathematics teacher, 98 of whom are 4th grade pre-service mathematics teachers and 45 of whom are mathematics teachers who are working in various provinces of Turkey. As for the data collection tools of this research, "Mathematics Pedagogical Content Knowledge Test (MPCKT)" was used. Cross-sectional comparative study, which is among the descriptive research designs, was used in this research. it was observed that the secondary mathematics teachers' levels of knowledge of understanding students and knowledge of instructional strategies, which constitute two sub-components of pedagogical content knowledge, exhibited development from their third-year in university to the period in which they carry out teaching profession.

Baş, Fatih; Işık, Ahmet

Bu çalışmanın amacı; öğretmen ve akademisyenler arasında oluşturulan web-tabanlı ve yüz-yüze iki bilgi paylaşım ortamını katılımcıların bakış açısıyla değerlendirmektir. Web-tabanlı ortamda 13 akademisyen-72 öğretmen yer alırken yüz-yüze ortamda 6 akademisyen 17 öğretmen yer almıştır. Bütüncül çoklu durum çalışması yönteminin kullanıldığı araştırma kapsamında veriler her iki ortamda da yer almış olan 5 öğretmen ve 5 akademisyen ile gerçekleştirilen yapılandırılmamış görüşmelerle toplanmıştır. Elde edilen veriler içerik analizine tabi tutulmuştur. Analiz sonucunda öğretmen ve akademisyenlerin bir araya gelmesi ve bilgi paylaşımında bulunmaları katılımcılar tarafından olumlu bir yön olarak değerlendirilmiştir. Fakat web tabanlı ortamda web sayfasının yapısından, yapılan paylaşımlardan, katılımcıların yaklaşımlarından ve gerekli koşullardan kaynaklı olan ve katılım düzeyini düşüren etkenler dile getirilmiştir. Yüz-yüze ortamda ise uygulamaların benzerliklerinin paylaşıma katılımı düşüren bir etken olarak değerlendirilmiştir. Katılımcılardan gelen öneriler ve ilgili literatür ışığında bu ortamların birlikte kullanımının daha yararlı olacağı önerilmektedir.