The study aims to explore how the mathematics teachers taking post-graduate education use their Algebra knowledge for the expression, "You can't add apples and pears" that is expressed in almost every segment of the society, in creating mathematical content. The data of the research consisted of the written answers of the thirty-seven…

Due to the frequent use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in daily life, it is thought that primary school students acquire information about this concept from various sources. The way these sources present AI may affect students' perceptions of AI. In the study, it was aimed to examine the perceptions of third and fourth grade primary…

Energy is a concept frequently encountered both in daily life and in various disciplines. Despite such a wide range of scope, conceptualizing it might be challenging at times. This study aims to investigate high school students' views on the concept of energy through a set of various paper-and-pencil tests. For this purpose, 654 high school…

The purpose of this research was to examine the ways that a metaphor could help describe and make sense of the facilitation practices of a teacher educator who collaborated in a self-study of teacher education practice project with colleagues in Norway, and an international critical friend. Our research question was: 'How does the metaphor of…

Professional knowledge courses are crucial in delivering teacher candidates the knowledge and skills that are required in the profession of teaching. This paper studies teacher candidates' metaphoric perceptions regarding the concept of professional knowledge courses. This study, which employed a model of qualitative research that is phenomenology…

Academic ethics and plagiarism research are typically handled separately, with these concepts examined from either the perspective of academics or students. In order to better understand these two interconnected phenomena, this study examined them through the eyes of both academics and postgraduate students, who are often referred to as the…

When the literature is examined, in some studies where the school administrator is considered a variable, only the school principal is considered the school administrator. In some studies, the views of the manager and assistant managers are evaluated together under the manager variable. This study aimed to reveal the metaphorical perceptions of…

Dealing with students' conceptions is one of the central elements of student-oriented teaching. To be able to organize learning processes efficiently, it is necessary to look at the learners in a differentiated way and to approach their conceptions individually. The first necessary step is the individual diagnosis of each student's conceptions.…

Purpose: The aim of the study is to evaluate the perceptions of participants on the sensitivity training in conducting online context. Design/methodology/approach: The researchers focus on the knowledge and attitudes of digital citizens as well as their perceptions on sensitivity training taking into consideration the technological aspects. In…

Several recent studies have employed item response theory (IRT) to rank incorrect responses to commonly used research-based multiple-choice assessments. These studies use Bock's nominal response model (NRM) for applying IRT to categorical (nondichotomous) data, but the response rankings only utilize half of the parameters estimated by the model.…

Many children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience associated difficulties in reading comprehension. This may be due to the social nature of fictional texts, which require the reader to interpret what characters are thinking and feeling and to make inferences about the cause and effect between events in a story. This paper outlines…

In this study, high school students' perceptions about the concept of soil were tried to be determined through metaphors. The phenomenological design was used in the research. Data from the study was collected from 451 students studying in four different types of high schools in the central district of Kütahya. As part of the study, students were…

This study examined children's understanding of irony when a difference existed between a speaker's intended meaning and a listener's interpretation of the meaning. Three irony contexts were presented to 87 7/8-year-olds (second graders), 90 11/12-year-olds (sixth graders), and 103 adults. In the normal irony context, the speaker intended to…

The aim of this study was to reveal the changes in metaphorical perceptions of teachers received STEM course towards STEM and 21st century skills. This study adopted an instrumental case study to find out the change in teachers' metaphoric perceptions of STEM and 21st century skills. The changes in teachers' perception of STEM and 21st century…

This study aims to investigate metaphors of pre-service teachers, the potential future educational leaders, regarding sustainability according to their knowledge level of sustainability. The study utilized the convergent research method, one of the mixed-method research designs based on both quantitative and qualitative data. The participants…