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Guler, Mustafa; Gursoy, Kadir; Guven, Bulent – Cogent Education, 2016
Understanding and interpreting biased data, decision-making in accordance with the data, and critically evaluating situations involving data are among the fundamental skills necessary in the modern world. To develop these required skills, emphasis on statistical literacy in school mathematics has been gradually increased in recent years. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 8, Data Interpretation
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Grammes, Tilman; Açikalin, Mehmet – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2016
The classroom with its teaching-learning dynamics creates a kind of "embryonic society" in which the micro-policies of collective social knowledge construction and meaning can be re-constructed; therefore, it can be considered as a kind of "mirror" of political culture. Thus, comparative lesson research, which requires in-depth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
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Selanik-Ay, Tugba – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
In this study, a learning area in social studies curriculum called "Groups, institutions and social organizations" was used. It can be seen that an important role for teachers in a social studies programme is to benefit from non-governmental organizations. The aim of this study is to investigate primary school teacher candidates' social…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Preservice Teachers, Nongovernmental Organizations, Foreign Countries
Sahin, Ismail; Thompson, Ann – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2006
The purpose of this research study was to develop a theory-based methodology for exploring instructional computer use by faculty members in one College of Education (COE) and implementing this methodology at an Anatolian university in Turkey. Rogers' (2003) Diffusion of Innovations theory was used as the theoretical framework in the process of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Methods, Faculty Development, Educational Technology