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Article Citation - WoS: 2A Study About the Elimination of Pre-Service Primary Education Teachers' Misconceptions About Relations and Functions Concepts(Turkish Education Assoc, 2007) Polat, Zeynep Sonay; Sahiner, YeterThe present study was a longitudinal study. The first step of the research was conducted during 2004-2005 academic year with 190 preservice teachers attending to their first year at Hacettepe University Primary Education department. At this phase, preservice teachers' misconceptions related to relations and functions concepts were identified, classified, and the possible reasons for these misconceptions were investigated. The second step of the research was conducted during 2005-2006 academic year with 97 preservice teachers attending to their first year at the same university's Primary education department. At this phase, the answer of the question "whether the preservice primary teachers' misconceptions related to the functions can be eliminated or not?" was explored. The results showed that the lesson content, lesson plan and the method, which were developed with respect to taking into consideration the general misconceptions identified, preservice teachers' misconceptions were substantially eliminated.Article Citation - WoS: 1The Evaluation of Students' Academic Achievements in Adaptive Environments(Turkish Education Assoc, 2014) Eryilmaz, Meltem; Simsek, Nurettin; Computer EngineeringIn this experimental research, academic performance of the students who were grouped according to their prior knowledge levels. In the research, three different environments were developed on the Mood le platform. The environments were designed without adaptations, with content adaptations that contain changes pertaining to the presentation style of the information that is to be included on pages, and with navigation adaptations which offer the suitable links by changing the link structure. The students worked for a period of five weeks in the designed environments. A multiple choice test and a practice examination were prepared in order to determine the knowledge level of the students pertaining to the subject matter prior to the experimental process, and to measure their academic performance after the experimental process. The findings derived from the scores of the tests which were given as pre test and final test indicated that the academic performance of the students who study in adaptive and non-adaptive learning environments may differ.
