Psychological and Educational Research Studies

The authors examined the relationships among students' levels of boredom, boredom coping strategies, epistemic curiosity, and graded performance regarding mathematics lessons, with the intention to explore the mediating roles of boredom coping strategies and epistemic curiosity in the relationship between the level of…

The authors examined the relationships among students' levels of boredom, boredom coping strategies, epistemic curiosity, and graded performance regarding mathematics lessons, with the intention to explore the mediating roles of boredom coping strategies and epistemic curiosity in the relationship between the level of…

• HAMİT COŞKUN

The aim of this research is to develop a scale to determine university students’ lifelong learning tendencies. The pre-trial form of Lifelong Tendency Scale (LLTS) containing 74 items was administered to 642 university students and explanatory factor analysis was conducted so as to determine the construct validity. On…

Abstract We tested Turkish participants' (n=483) autobiographical and event memory for the events of September 11, 2001 3 days, 6 months, and 1 year after the event. The amount of autobiographical detail participants reported was very high after one year. The accuracy of event memory was moderate at 3 days, and declin…

• SAMİ GÜLGÖZ

Abstract We tested Turkish participants' (n=483) autobiographical and event memory for the events of September 11, 2001 3 days, 6 months, and 1 year after the event. The amount of autobiographical detail participants reported was very high after one year. The accuracy of event memory was moderate at 3 days, and declin…

• ALİ İZZET TEKCAN

The assessment of creativity has been a controversial issue in the studies of creativity. Contrary to old paradigms, contemporary researchers support the use of domain-specific tests to measure creativity. The purpose of this study was to investigate some psychometric properties of the Creative Scientific Ability Test…

• MUHAMMET BAHADIR AYAS

Bu araştırmada, öğrencilerin akademik güdülenme düzeylerindeki bireysel farklılıkların belirlenmesinde kullanılabilecek bir ölçme aracı geliştirilmiştir. Ölçeğin ön deneme formu olarak hazırlanan 80 madde, üç ayrı ilden 757 lise öğrencisine (388 kız, 369 erkek) uygulanmış, elde edilen veriler üzerinden faktör analizi…

• İHSAN BOZANOĞLU

This research examines the association between identity status and self-monitoring behavior including age and gender differences in these variables in 476 adolescents (15 to 22 years old) in Turkey—a non-Western society characterized by traditional and modernist cultural elements. Identity was assessed with the Extend…

• ASİYE KUMRU

The perceptual fluency hypothesis claims that items that are easy to perceive at encoding induce an illusion that they will be easier to remember, despite the finding that perception does not generally affect recall. The current set of studies tested the predictions of the perceptual fluency hypothesis with a picture…

• MİRİ BESKEN

In this meta‐analysis, the aim is to determine the overall effect of the ARCS (attention, relevance, confidence, satisfaction) model of motivation on students‘ academic achievement, motivation, attention, relevance, confidence and satisfaction. Additionally, the effect of the model is analysed according to the learnin…

The purpose of this study was to develop a valid and reliable scale measuring the Indonesians’ scientific habits of mind (SHOM) levels via the SSIs in context. The sample of the study consisted of 658 Indonesian people (aged 18–68 years; 385 females and 273 males; mean age: 35.5) randomly drawn from 3 districts of Spe…

• MUAMMER ÇALIK

37 college students answered questions regarding the circumstances in which they first heard about two events that took place approximately two years prior: the beginning of Operation Desert Storm and the news of their acceptance to college. The number of details recalled about their own circumstances for both events…