Internet access tools and devices are developing with the prevalence of the Internet, which is considered revolutionary in information and communications technology. Beside the widespread use of the Internet among young people, statistics show that the number of older people that use the Internet is also on the rise. The purpose of the study is to identify the Internet use habits of the retired teachers who are registered members of Retired Teachers Association. The sample of the study is composed of the teachers who are members of Eskişehir Retired Teachers Association. A two-part questionnaire was implemented. The first part includes six questions of demographics and the second includes 16 questions related to Internet use habits. The data was analyzed on SPSS 23 software. The results show the Internet use habits of retired teachers who are members of the association.

With the ever-increasing globalisation of education, acquisition of cultural skills has established its place as a gold standard for defining competent communicators. Varied frameworks in the famous hubs of ELT require both language teachers and learners to know a foreign language, use it for introducing home culture and getting to know other cultures, and ultimately develop cross-cultural understanding and awareness for a more peaceful global community. However, a comparative analysis of ten undergraduate course contents outlined by language teacher training programs in the UK and Turkey indicated that unlike their British counterparts, Turkish programs paid only sporadic attention to the cultural component of foreign language teaching, because (i) courses related to intercultural communication, language varieties, culture and identity remained elective and marginal, and (ii) culture teaching could receive focus as another topic area in only four compulsory courses thanks to its mention in CoHE’s framework for ELT programs.

The purpose of the current study is to compare the opinions of graduate students continuing their graduate studies in Kazakhstan about their scientific research competencies. As the present study aims to compare the graduate students’ existing scientific research competencies, it was designed as a descriptive study in the survey model. Survey models are research approaches aiming to describe any state having existed in the past or still existing at present as it was or is. The study group of the current research consists of graduate students randomly selected from among the students continuing their graduate studies in the fields of educational sciences and subject area education at the universities of Avrasya University, Abay University, Pavlodar State University and Ahmet Yesevi University in Kazakhstan. In the current study, as the data collection tool, The Scientific Research Competency Scale developed by Lyazzat Beisenbayeva was used. The reliability and validity studies of the scale were conducted (α=0.958). The findings of the study revealed that no gender-based significant difference was found among the opinions stated about the sub-dimensions and the whole of the scale. Depending on the students’ graduate education level, a significant difference was found in the opinions stated about the sub-dimensions of measuring tool and data analysis in favor of the master’s students.

The improvement of learning quality might be pursued by improving the learning process based on the results of diagnosing the students’ learning difficulties. The study then was to diagnose the junior high school students’ learning difficulties in completing the mathematics test items of the national examination. The study is a quantitative descriptive study. The diagnosis of learning difficulties was conducted by performing the cognitive diagnostic assessment through using DINA model. The data that had been used in the study were students’ responses of math test of national examination of junior high schools located in the Province of Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. The students’ difficulties were detected by implementing the CDM package provided by the R program and using the output of the latent classes were identified. The results of the study showed that the students experienced some difficulties in completing the national examination test in many items on number, geometry and statistics, and understanding the narrative text items.

This study investigates character of communication education, and evaluates communication need of people, and handles relation between communication and contemporary requirements, and emphasizes contemporary requirements on communication education. Industrial Revolution and technological developments also conributed communication technics and proved numerous technological facilities for communication. Education in the world also use developed technology in any department and communicaiton education especially necessities high technological faciliities in schools. Many high schools and universities have communication departmens and most of them use contemporary technological facilities, but they are not sufficient. Communication departments in educational organizations in Turkey have computer classrooms and monitors and cameras and microphones and telephones and different softwares and others. But despite all this, technological facilities and teaching methods are not sufficient because of contemporary developments. Technology developes rapidly due to hopes of people and technological facilities in education can not catch developments and people always hope more.

Biology, a branch of science studying living things in all aspects, has a large scope. Besides covering a large content, it also includes abstract concepts in some matters. Especially in the issues of abstract and microscopic biology, various alternative terms are determined at different levels of education. This study aims at determining pre-service teachers’ alternative conceptions regarding the tRNA concepts on protein synthesis. 12 first year university students participated in the research. Semistructured interviews were conducted so as to determine the pre-service teachers’ alternative conceptions for the tRNA concept. On analyzing the data obtained through the interviews, it was found that the pre-service teachers had differing alternative conceptions for the concept of tRNA. Those conceptions were tabulated in categories.

This study aims to examine the relationship between problematic internet usage and some demographic features among university students. Data was gathered from 342 female (63 %), 200 male (37 %), in total 542 university students. The Online Cognitive Scale (OCS) and Demographic Information Form were used for collecting the data. The time of connecting to internet was mostly at evening and the average of connection time was 0-9 hours per week. There were differences between the means of social comfort, loneliness/depression, diminished impulse control and distraction subscales of OCS according to gender and the age of onset of connecting to internet. Also, a high correlation coefficient was found between the frequency of internet use and the OCS. Females and males differed significantly in their use of internet as regards to the reasons. Internet usage changed according to the subjective evaluation of academic performance of students.

The purpose of this study is to examine the conceptual knowledge of mathematics teacher candidates about the sequence concept. This research is a case study in which qualitative methods are adopted. The first phase of the study was conducted with a total of 45 teacher candidates taking the course of Analysis III. In this stage, the "Sequence Knowledge Test" consisting of four open-ended questions developed by the researchers was used as a data collection tool to examine the concepts of the teacher candidates about the sequence concept. In the second stage of the research, individual interviews were made with 8 teacher candidates selected from the sample in order to conduct an indepth study on conceptual knowledge about the subject of the sequence. Content analysis was used to analyze the obtained data. As a result of the analysis of the data, important shortcomings were found in the concept knowledge of the teacher candidates.