Papers by Seda Şule Baysal
Uluslararası İnovatif Eğitim Araştırmacısı, 2021
This study attempts to perform a path analysis regarding metacognitive awareness, critical thinki... more This study attempts to perform a path analysis regarding metacognitive awareness, critical thinking dispositions and their sub-dimensions in order to explain pre-service teachers' cognitive flexibility. Having a relational survey design, the study examined the relationships between pre-service teachers' cognitive flexibility, critical thinking dispositions and their metacognitive awareness. In this vein, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to explain the predictive relationships between the variables. The participants of this study were selected by convenience sampling method and consisted of a total of 213 pre-service teachers studying at the faculty of education in a state university in Turkey. The study deployed personal information form, cognitive flexibility scale, critical thinking disposition scale, and metacognitive awareness scale as data collection tools. Multiple regression analysis was conducted to determine whether pre-service teachers' metacognitive awareness and critical thinking dispositions were significant predictors of their cognitive flexibility. Besides, the predictive role of metacognitive awareness and critical thinking dispositions on cognitive flexibility was analyzed through use of path analysis. The analysis results revealed that the innovativeness sub-dimension of the participants' critical thinking dispositions and the questioning, motivation and evaluation sub-dimensions of their metacognitive awareness were identified to be significant predictors of their cognitive flexibility. Considering the relationships between cognitive flexibility and metacognitive awareness and critical thinking disposition sub-dimensions all sub-dimensions were found to have a medium level, positive and significant relationship with cognitive flexibility. In addition, the structural equation model suggested that 78% of the total variance regarding the pre-service teachers' cognitive flexibility was explained by the innovativeness sub-dimension of critical thinking disposition and the evaluation sub-dimension of metacognitive awareness.
OPUS Uluslararası Toplum Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2021
This research attempts to reveal pre-service teachers' perceptions towards instructional technolo... more This research attempts to reveal pre-service teachers' perceptions towards instructional technologies (ITs) through colors and emojis along with the meanings attributed to colors and emojis. Synectics model was used to enable students to comment on the concept they are familiar with from a new perspective. The research utilized a phenomenological design. The participants consisted of the 3rd and 4th grade 161 pre-service teachers learning at a state university between September and December in 2019. Criterion sampling, one of the purposeful sampling methods, was utilized for incorporating only participants who had taken instructional technologies course and who majored in different departments. This research deployed an "instructional technology synectic and emojis form" developed by the researchers. Both content and numerical analysis were used during data analysis. Research findings suggested that the pre-service teachers mostly associated the concept of ITs with white, blue and green colors. The colors that were least preferred were all colors, brown and turquoise. The findings also revealed that most of the participants attributed positive meanings to the colors regarding instructional technologies. Besides, the majority of the pre-service teachers felt "happy" towards instructional technologies and explained the reasons as facilitating learning, feeling special, permanent learning.
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