December 2015

Effects of intra-family parameters: Educative style and academic knowledge of parents and their economic conditions on teenagers’ personality and behavior

The present study aims to investigate the effects of intra-family parameters; educative styles and academic knowledge of parents and their economic condition on teenagers’ personality and behavior. The present study is a descriptive survey. The statistical sample of the study included 166 teenage students from Baku, Azerbaijan and 332 of their parents were selected through stratified random sampling based on the...

Author(s): Mohammad Bakhtavar and Rana Bayova

December 2015

Determining science student teachers’ cognitive structure on the concept of “food chain”

The current study aims to determine science student teachers’ cognitive structure on the concept of food chain. Qualitative research method was applied in this study. Fallacies detected in the pre-service teachers’ conceptual structures are believed to result in students’ developing misconceptions in their future classes and will adversely affect their future teaching performance. The data were...

Author(s): Derya Çınar