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Article Citation - WoS: 5Citation - Scopus: 7Emulating Erasmus? Turkey's Mevlana Exchange Program in Higher Education(Springer Heidelberg, 2019) Yilmaz, GozdeIn today's world, globalization and internationalization of education necessitate new initiatives to catch the new era. Turkey, as a country in between the east and the west, attempts to do so through its recent exchange program in higher education. Interestingly, Turkey's Mevlana exchange program as an ambitious project in higher education denotes an instance of policy transfer: taking the EU model (i.e., Erasmus) and slightly adjusting it to the national circumstances. This article unpacks Turkey's Mevlana program to demonstrate the process of policy transfer by focusing on different questions posed within the policy transfer literature. It argues that Mevlana is drawn from Erasmus, and it is created as a tool of soft power that is increasingly exercised by Turkey due to its changing focus within the Turkish foreign policy of 2000s.Article Citation - WoS: 4Citation - Scopus: 7Extending Peer-Led Team Learning To Management Education: the Effects on Achievement, Critical Thinking, and Interest(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2022) Tuzlukaya, Sule; Sahin, Neriman Gonca Guzel; Cigdemoglu, CeyhanAs an attempt to extend the implementation of peer-led team learning to management education, this study proposes to investigate business students' achievement, critical thinking skills, and interest in learning environment across academic ability groups and attitudes towards team leaders. Using a one-shot pre/post experimental design, 108 conveniently selected students participated in the treatment throughout ten weeks. Researchers collected data using the critical thinking scale and interest scales both at the beginning and at the end of the treatment. In addition, students' course achievement is used as a dependent variable. To answer research questions, paired-samples t-test, one-way repeated measure analysis of variance (ANOVA), and multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) were used. Results indicate that the mean scores of achievement are significantly different for different ability group students and different levels of attitudes towards team leaders. Besides, students' interest scores increased at the end of the implementation; however, their scores on critical thinking skills decreased. Further studies are suggested to consider these issues in implementing peer-led team learning in social science courses.
