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The aim of this study was to examine whether the level of perception of the teachers concerning their communication competencies differs significantly in terms of different variables. Quantitative and qualitative research methods were both used to gather the data. The research, in which survey method was applied, was carried out with 80 teachers working in Yıldırım Trade High School. Qualitative data was collected through "Communication Skills Scale" developed by Ersanlı & Balcı (1998). Quantitative data was collected from semi-structured interviews made with 11 teachers. The results of the study indicated that vocational and non-vocational course teachers had a "satisfactorily high" level of perception concerning their communication competencies. It was found that there were no differences between vocational and non vocational course teachers' level of perception concerning their communication competencies. Results showed that gender, the faculty graduated from, branch, membership of a professional organization, frequency of attendance at in-service training activities on communication, the fact of having had a lecture on communication at university were not meaningful variables on the level of perception concerning their communication competencies. It was discovered that the level of perception concerning their communication competencies varied according to experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this research is to examine / analyze the behaviours of academicians in presenting themselves on Facebook platform. Thus, starting from Goffman's Dramaturgical Theory and theories of self-presentations, it will be figured out how the academicians perform behaviours of their own self-presentations on Facebook social network. The researcher, on account of the fact it fits more to the spirit of the research, utilized a mixed method / methodology by setting the qualitative and quantitative research methods to work together, and thus, figuring the research in the way that the quantitative methods corroborated the qualitative ones. The researcher, in this study, made a face-to-face in-depth interview with 10 academicians to be able to answer the research questions within the study, and along with these interviews, content analysis was applied to 10 photos- in total 100 photos- that the academicians chose from among the others in their profile. During the research, the qualitative data were analyzed by means of descriptive analysis, while the photos were interpreted through content analysis. As the result of the research, it was observed that the academicians preferred tactics of self-presentation for self-introduction, such as endearing themselves to others, setting an example and self-revelation on Facebook; besides that, it was also seen that they employed tactics of self-presentation for self-protection on Facebook, different from the other studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of communication is to transfer knowledge among people. During this transfer the speaker or writer also transfers some clues revealing his/her personal feelings, beliefs and attitude related to the source and reliability of the knowledge. This phenomenon of marking source and reliability, which is performed with different linguistic devices and grammatical structures in different languages, is called 'evidentially'. Although there are grammaticalized linguistic structures to serve only as evidential markers in some languages, in many other languages linguistic devices used for other functions fulfill evidential functions as well. The latter case is also true for Turkish. In this study after defining what evidentiality is, it is tried to determine which linguistic devices are used for this function with the help of the studies carried out in Turkish so far. In this sense, it is possible to say that this study is to first to index the linguistic devices with evidential meaning in Turkish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of social studies education is to help them develop positive values against themselves and their environment. An important task of social studies course is to ensure that children learn values they will need in social life. Social studies teachers have an important role to achieve these goals. It seems to be important that knowing what are the teacher candidates' views regarding the values aimed to be taught in social studies lessons. So that teacher candidates' awareness about the social studies program can be determined. This study aimed at learning teacher candidates' ideas about the values aimed to be taught in Social Studies lessons and about values education. In this study case study, one of qualitative methods, was employed. Data were collected by questionnaires prepared by the researcher. Participants of the study were social studies teacher candidates. Criterion sampling method was used for the study. The collected data was analysed according to content analysis method. At the end of data analysis, teacher candidates' views regarding the values aimed to be taught in social studies lessons and about the state of these values in terms of importance were evaluated. Recommendations were made in line with these considerations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to evaluate the publications on history education made by UNESCO from the date of its establishment to nowadays. These publications include published articles, books, reports, and documents which are available on its web site. The present study examined 264 publications on the history education by UNESCO. In this descriptive study, the publications were analyzed according to their publication years, kinds, themes, and geographical scopes. Moreover, the content analysis was also used to analyze these publications. Results revealed that the history education publications were related to several main themes such as instructional materials, historical topics, and interdisciplinary history teaching. The rate of publications pertaining to history textbook is approximately 25%. The main geographical scope of the publications is Europe with 25 percentages. The scope of these publications was largely concerned with western countries as USA and France. In conclusion, even the UNESCO seems to have a world institution characteristics, it concentrates on Europe in terms of history education. However, the UNESCO has not recently given great importance to the appearance of the world and national histories in history textbooks compared to its early years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In our study, the gender gap which male and female candidates to be involved in the local newspapers was questioned on the assumption and gender apartheid in media was researched though the local newspapers. Placing the significance of the political communication in affecting the choices of the voters in this context, political communication and its methods have been investigated while the media touch in the political participation and representation of females have been highlighted accordingly. In the study, news with political content as well as announcements that appeared in local newspapers of Antalya and Isparta districts before and after General Elections 2007 have been examined through content analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By a good background of knowledge and by a sufficient preparation, anyone can give an effective oral presentation. This article has been compiled in hopes of providing some helpful instructions on effective ways to present scientific communication. It is aimed at improving the quality of presentation and is designed primarily for young scientists who might be approaching their first professional conference, but other colleagues might also find useful information for improving their own presentations. Effectiveness of an oral presentation depends on the ability of the speaker to communicate with the audience. An important part of this kind of a scientific presentation is focusing on two to three key points and emphasizing those points during the talk. It's observed that the audience learns best when the information presented matches their needs; when they are motivated to learn and anticipate that they will benefit from the experience; when both visual and auditory aids are used; when the aims of an oral presentation are clear, relevant, and in context; when they are actively involved in the learning process or when the experience is enjoyable. If our instructions are kept in mind during both preparation and talk of an oral presentation, the people will be attentive and speaker's effort will be effective. Many oral presentations concern interesting scientific work, but are nevertheless difficult to follow because the speaker unknowingly makes a number of presentation errors. By far the largest mistake is that a speaker does not realize how an audience listens. If we are well aware of what errors we should avoid, the chances are high that we shall be able to greatly improve our oral presentations. These possible errors are evoked in this article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chaotic systems can be defined as "sensitively dependent to initial conditions and immeasurably complex" systems. Besides the sensitive dependence to the initial conditions, chaotic systems have a wideband, noise-like and non-periodic structure. With this characteristics, chaotic systems has found wide application areas; in different branches of science, especially in engineering. Communications is one of the important applications of chaotic systems. Chaotic masking, chaotic modulation, chaotic shift keying and predictable control method are used in chaotic communications systems. In this study, Differential Chaos Shift Keying, that is a spread spectrum chaotic communication method, was simulated. Because of its fast implementation, "C" programming language was chosen as the simulation environment. In literature, Chua Circuit is usually used as a chaos generator in chaotic system applications. In this study, first time implementation of DCSK method combined with Lorenz system as a chaos generator was examined. It has been seen that the performance of Lorenz system is better when compared with Chua's circuit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main purpose of this research was to determine the effects of the active learning model on students' learning, teaching and communication processes. The research was carried out in a natural atmosphere employing both quantitative and qualitative research methods. The subjects were 34 teacher candidates from mathematics, physics and chemistry departments who were enrolled in the course of 'Instructional Planning and Evaluation' as a part of Master of Science program at Yildiz Technical University in Turkey. Interviews, observations, and questionnaires were used to collect the data. The data was analyzed by using quantitative and qualitative research techniques. The findings revealed that there was a positive effect of active learning atmosphere on students' learning, teaching, and communication processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]