TOJQIH - Volume 6 - Issue 1 - January 2019
IMPACT OF STUDENTS’ SELF-ADVOCACY ON THEIR PERCEPTION IN DESIGN-STUDIO 1 Hozan Latif Rauf, Kağan Gunce, Münevver Özgür Özersay
Abstract:
In the 21st century, one of the challenging point in education, more deeply, in design education is engaging students to their classrooms. Both of student’s self-advocacy level and student’s relatedness to their design studios are the key points to students’ success. In spite of many studies that dealing with each of self-advocacy issues and student’s relatedness separately, there could not find any study so far to show the relationship between students’ self-advocacy and their relatedness in design studios. This study tries to find out the impact of students’ self-advocacy level on their relatedness in design studios. This research has mixed method with an analytical methodology approach. The results show that the student, who has high level of self-advocacy, has success relatedness in the design studio, and regularly could get a good performance. As a suggestion of this study, despite the last and least impacts of instructor on students’ self-advocacy, the instructors could grow up a self-advocate student by teaching them self-awareness through their discussion in design studios on the matter of the course. By this, students’ engagement to their design studios may be able to be stronger.
MANAGING OF TEACHING STAFF FOR QUALITY EDUCATION DELIVERY IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS Amnah Hassan Dammas, Wajanat Ali Alharthy
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This research study examined managing of teaching staff for quality education delivery in secondary schools in Jeddah city – Saudi Arabia. Three questions and three hypotheses were answered and examined which adopted the descriptive survey as the working design. The population of this study includes 24 public secondary schools with 48 administrators and 12 supervisors from the secondary education management board from where a sample of 60 participants was selected employing stratified random sampling. Respondents of the study responded to a validated instrument titled ‘Managing Teaching Staff Scale’ (MTSS) with a reliability index of 0.79 designed by the researchers in the modified 4-point Likert scale model. Mean, standard deviation and aggregate mean were used in answering the research questions, while z-test was used in testing the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings of the study show among others that the various ways of motivating teaching staff for quality education delivery. Based on the findings, the researchers recommended that school administrators and supervisors should adopt appropriate administrative strategies to countermand the negative effects of the challenges in school management to ensure effective service delivery.
SOCIAL MEDIA IN EDUCATION: A DISTRACTION OR MOTIVATION? Naciye Güliz UĞUR, Aykut Hamit TURAN
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It is important to assess students’ perceptions of social media tools and how these tools are used for learning. The purpose of this study is to provide information on student use of social media in order to assess how the perceived the impact of social media in relation to learning. Also, to determine whether using social media tools was perceived by students as a distraction from learning and to equally examine whether using social media tools for learning did intimidate students especially, those students who were not savvy in the use of social media tools. The idea is to provide information to instructors on the perceived impact of using social media for learning purposes so that they could develop strategy to deal with any concerns that might emerge following the application of social media as learning tools during classroom instruction. The study examined students’ perceptions of Facebook, Twitter and blogs as tools for learning in a classroom environment.
TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MODELS FOR EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING IN SCHOOLS Ceren Çetin, Mustafa Bayrakcı
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High-quality professional development is a central component in nearly every modern proposal for improving education. Policy-makers increasingly recognize that schools can be no better than the teachers and administrators who work within them. Teacher professional development provides opportunities for acquisition or renewal of basic knowledge and skills in specific professional and academic area. Professional development is more than training, including workshops, seminars, monitoring, reflection, observation and performance of activities by teachers, sets them in the role of trained, who are placed in this long process, but future trainers lead teachers to use new methods, techniques, approaches in their practice. There are many models of professional development that incorporate several of these characteristics of high quality. Recent research and policy in professional development support moving away from ‘sit-and-get’ workshops on general topics toward teacher-driven efforts to identify and solve instructional problems rooted in their daily work. In this study, models of teacher professional development are examined and compared based on literature review. Advantages and disadvantages of several teacher professional development models are reviewed.
THE EFFECT OF VIBER APPLICATION ON THE ACQUISITION OF CLIPPED, BLENDED AND ACRONYM WORDS Liqaa Habeb Al-Obaydi, Atyaf Hasan Ibrahim
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The present study focuses on the use of Viber application groups on the acquisition of three types of words. It deals with words that resulted from three processes of word formation; clipping, blending and acronymy. The study aims at helping students to understand and produce words resulted from clipping, blending and acronymy by using Viber groups. The sample of the study consists of sixty students divided into two groups, experimental and control, thirty students for each. The study based on verifying the following hypothesis: there is no statistically significant difference between the main score of the experimental group performance in enhancing students’ knowledge of word formation processes by using Viber groups and that of the control one. The researcher used adapted test to gain the final results. The findings of the study show positive impact of Viber groups on students’ performance and clarify that there is a significant difference between the two groups in favor of the experimental one. So, the hypothesis of the study is rejected.
