Academic procrastination behaviours and problematic internet usage of high school students during the COVID-19 pandemic period

While Covid-19 pandemic created negative consequences in education as a virus affecting the world in general, the technological developments that came along with it are reshaping the entire world. This study aims to examine the relationship between academic procrastination behaviors and problematic Internet usage of high school students during the Covid-19 Pandemic period. This study is in the form of a descriptive survey, and the survey method was used in the study. The population of the study in the 2020-2021 academic year consisted of 350 students who studied in vocational schools affiliated with the Ministry of National Education and Culture in Northern Cyprus. The sample of the research consisted of 350 students selected by convenience sampling method. In this study, academic procrastination and problematic internet usage scales were used as data collection tools. As a result, in the Pandemic Period, the relationship between male students' problematic internet usage and academic procrastination behaviors is significantly higher than that of female students. As academic procrastination behaviors of students decrease, so did problematic internet usage levels. Keywords: academic procratination, Covid-19,high school, internet usage;

Perspectives and Problems of Inclusion Education in Kazakhstan during Covid 19

The XXI century is characterized by the understanding that only individual self-realization is the primary goal of any social development. These changes in public consciousness have caused the emergence of a new paradigm of education based on approaches and concepts developed by modern practice. This includes the idea of "inclusive education." Inclusive education in Kazakhstan is in the formation process, therefore, establishing a system of inclusive education requires a solution at the state level. Coupled with the global pandemic which has affected every person especially the most vulnerable kids, the State Program for the Development of Education and Science in the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2020-2025 raises an urgent problem of developing inclusive education. This study conducted a survey using an online poll with participants who are parents of kids with special needs. We asked what kind of challenges they met during Covid 19 pandemic time. Respondents ranked the following topics as the most complicated: lack of funding and resources reduced effectiveness of the educational staff training system, unregulated management and legislative framework, weak coordination of external services, and insufficient participation of the public and private sectors. The results of the research demonstrated that very few schoolchildren with special educational needs receive quality inclusive education. Keywords: Covid 19; inclusive education; special needs, parents.

Dimensions of relationships of students with intellectual disabilities

Constant investigations of the ways in which interpersonal relationships are structured has become necessary due to the complexity of interpersonal relationships that we notice in social groups icluding students. The aim of this research is to underline the specific manner that students with intellectual disabilities establish interpersonal relationships .This paper is based on a complex research on 112 preadolescents with intellectual disabilities and 98 teenagers with intellectual disabilities. We used “Choosing Alter’s Test” (focused on revealing the criteria for choosing a friend); “Relations with others” (focused on revealing the criteria underlying the assessment of interpersonal relationships established with an authority), through non-directive interviews.This study advances the idea that the interpersonal relationships that students with intellectual disabilities establish within the school group, are develop based on the importance/significance attributed to each person with whom they interact, to the roles that each person plays in the students' lives and serve to satisfy their security’ needs and to meet their contextual needs. Keywords: interpersonal relationships, socialization, relational spaces, social perception process, teenagers and preadolescents with intellectual disabilities;

Teachers’ knowledge about teaching mathematics to learning disabilities students

Teaching students with LD requires an arduous effort from special education (SE) teachers. Mathematics may seem to be a difficult subject,however, students with learning disabilities (LD) face more challenges in learning the subject. Even though teachers’ knowledge has been widely studied, there is few research focusing on SE teachers who teach mathematics specifically. This systematic literature review attempts to critically present what kind of knowledge that SE teachers need to teach mathematics effectively. Nineteen papers were selected from Scopus as the leading database and few supporting databases such as Sage and Science Direct. This study identified subject matter knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge as the core expertise for SE teachers with knowledge about students with LD characteristics as the supporting knowledge. This study’s contribution is the identification of these teachers’ knowledge generally and mathematically to create a specific teaching model for learning disabilities students. Keywords: learning disabilities; mathematics ; special education teachers; teachers’ knowledge

Scale development: Assessment of gifted preschoolers

Human intelligence and talent are notions that have been studied in various disciplines like psychology and education overtime. Developing better understanding on these concepts pass through self-exploration of mankind and researchers use fundamental and complex scientific process skills in this process. In this regard, the study aims at developing a measurement tool by which indicators of gifted and talented students can be observed in a valid and reliable way. The research hypothesized four factored giftedness structures and then following technical operations and statistical computations were performed. Item poll was created after an extended literature review and analysis of existing evaluation scales. Items were revised, modified, improved and probable problematic ones were discarded throughout pilot study, and final template of the scale was obtained. Data was collected from 258 preschool/kindergarten children in Antalya province. Findings revealed sufficient and strong evidence for validity and reliability that the measurement tool developed was theoretically supported and a good measure of giftedness.

Computer supported collaborative learning in Greek inclusive secondary education

Computer-assisted collaborative learning is known to challenge and motivate students with Learning Disabilities. The present paper therefore intends to briefly present the benefits of computer-supportive collaborative learning activities as well as demonstrate specific practices and paradigms concerning the inclusion of students with Special Educational Needs in Secondary Education in Greece. To reach this target, the researchers proceed to an ICT literature review associated with computer-mediated collaborative and inclusive learning methods in Greek Secondary Education. According to literature review findings, these learning methods are considered beneficial in terms of learning purposes directed to students with learning disabilities since they do raise students’ interest and engagement in the learning procedure, enhance their cognitive abilities and assist them to develop self-esteem, problem-solving strategies and, finally, a solid collaborative attitude. Therefore, this paper concludes that there has been a lack of significant progress with respect to establishing collaborative inclusive learning environments in Greece. Key words: Collaborative learning; computer-supported education; Inclusive education; Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities; SEND

Investigating the relationship of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and eating disorders in adults

ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder which starts from childhood and early juvenility and can even continue until adolescence. It is noticeable with three factors: hyperactivity, attention inability, and Impulsivity. Researches have demonstrated that the main symptoms of ADHD is also present in patients diagnosed with eating disorders. The goal of the present study is to investigate the relationship of Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and eating disorders in adults.The present study is a correlational study with a cross sectional descriptive method. The sample contains of 150 people chosen from adults using random sampling method. All of the participants answered the Eating attitudes scale (Garner and Garfinkel, 1982) and the Adult ADHD self-report scale (world health organization, 1994). The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and Spearman correlation coefficient.Considering the result of current study it can be said that ADHD and Eating disorders are related to one another, because based on the evidence gathered, these two variables have similar neurobiological properties and clinical features, and thus ADHD has the ability of eating disorder occurrence anticipation. Keyword: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Diet; Eating disorder; Impulsivity

EDITORIAL

To readers of Journal of Education and Special Education Technology’s (JESET) Issue in 2017. From 2015 till this days, we, as editorial team of JESET, aimed and made an effort to gain researches on technology in special education, have high quality and unique findings. We believed that just this kind of researches could useful for literature and our audiences such as readers, researchers, trainers, instructors in special education and educational technologies area. In this frame of journal we pleased to present you an article, written by İskender Volkan SANCAR, Süleyman Burak TOZKOPARAN and Hatice Ferhan ODABAŞI. The study represents a content analysis of scientific articles on the use of mobile technologies in special education. Within this scope, 19 out of 51 articles that are published in journals indexed in SSCI and/or ERIC were selected in compliance with inclusion and exclusion criteria. Findings show that a great majority of the studies focused on disabilities such as autism spectrum disorder, down’s syndrome and intellectual disability. Most of the studies were conducted in the USA and focused on skill acquisition/improvement. Product design, usage or usability studies as well as research on visually and hearing impaired individuals were scarce. Consequently, I would like to express my thanks to all the contributors who helped us to publish this issue. Yours sincerely, Associate Professor Doctor Adile Askim KURT

EDITORIAL

It is a great honor for us to welcome you as Editor of Journal of Education and Special Education Technology’s (JESET) Issue in 2016. We, as Editorial Team of JESET, aimed to publish and support well-designed and original researches on special education and educational technologies. Through, we believe that quality of integration and use of technology in education, especially special education would increase and become widespread as days pass. From this point of view, we glad to present you an article, titled as “Technology Use via Students with Hearing Impairment: Hear Your Voice and Be Heard”, at this issue of JESET. The article written by Adile Aşkım KURT and Derya ORHAN GÖKSÜN from Anadolu University. It was supported by a scientific project program and conducted at a special education school in this university. In the frame of study, it was aimed to develop the technology use process in reading and writing activities for students with hearing impairment using Wikis was designed as an action research. The researchers were analyzed the views of students with hearing impairment and reported their interesting and contextual results on implementation. Finally, I present many thanks to all the contributors who helped us to publish this issue. Best Regards, Associate Professor Doctor Adile Aşkım KURT

Analysis of the published articles related to autism in Turkey: A model proposal for students

In this study, we aimed to the revision of the articles written about autism studies conducted in Turkey. In this study, the survey study was conducted on the studies on development, education, care, teaching methods of children with autism and the studies related to the family. 93 articles were reviewed and 20 of them could not be reached. As a result of the research conducted using the document analysis technique, the articles reached are categorized according to their subjects. Studies; children's skills training (9 studies), family and family views (15 studies), studies on the comparison of children with autism with children with normal needs (3 studies), studies on fusion in autistic children (3 studies), studies related to autism description (14 studies) and studies on the effectiveness of programs and methods related to autism (29 studies) were examined in six categories. Information on the studies of the articles in each category is given. According to the findings obtained from the study, it was concluded that the most studied areas were studies on the effectiveness of the programs and methods related to Autism, and that the studies on comparing autistic children with children with normal needs were not sufficient and a model proposal for students with autism was presented.. Keywords: Skill training, State description, Inclusion, Autism