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This study aimed to determine the relationship between the visual literacy levels of children attending preschool education institutions and their rapid automatized naming skills. A total of 160 children, 77 girls, and 83 boys, aged 5-6 years, attending independent kindergartens, took part in the research. The "Personal Information Form," the "Visual Literacy Assessment Tool for Children Aged 5–6 Parent's Form," and the Rapid Automated Naming Test (HOTIT) were used to collect the data. The predictive correlational research design was used in the study; Pearson's correlation coefficient and "multiple regression" analysis were used to determine the predictors of visual literacy skills. It was found that there was a high negative correlation between the skills of the Rapid Automatized Naming Test and the picture sub-dimension and a similarly high negative correlation between the Rapid Automatized Naming Test color skills.

Life satisfaction is among the basic components which demonstrate that individuals can lead a quality life. Many intertwined factors affect individuals' life satisfaction. Analyzing these factors at different levels will allow the analysis results to be more significant. This study aimed to reveal the effects of variable at the student and department level that will affect the life satisfaction level of university students, using the Hierarchical Linear Modeling. In addition, the study aimed to reveal which variables have a significant effect on life satisfaction in this two-level structure. The sample of the research consists of 1237 students, studying in 30 departments in different faculties at Inönü University in the 2020-2021 academic year. The variables about students represent the first level while variables about department represent the second level. Considering the life satisfaction levels of individuals, it was concluded that 13% of the variability was due to the differences between departments and that 87% of variability due to the differences between students. It was also concluded that variables that became important in explaining the differences between students' life satisfaction at the first level were: working, self-regulation, physical discomfort, physical activity variables and that variables such as gender, age, income, having a sibling, relationship status, family cohesion, emotion regulation, parents' education level, having close friends and a religious belief were found to be insignificant in explaining life satisfaction at the student level and that the added variables could explain 75% of students' life satisfaction. Variables at the department level explain 6% of the differences between departments. It was concluded that the variable that could explain the differences between students' life satisfaction at this level was the variable of departments' scores on assigning teachers and that the number of students and faculty members in the department were found to be insignificant.

This research aims to reveal the importance of science and mathematics education, children’s natural curiosity towards science, and teachers' deficiencies and opinions in this area. In this study, where the qualitative method is preferred, the special case method, which enables in-depth research within a specific subject, is used. The study group of the study constitutes 45 preschool teachers working in independent kindergartens affiliated to the Ministry of National Education. When the study group was determined, the maximum diversity type sampling method was used. In order to collect data in the research, a semi-structured interview form consisting of 3 open-ended questions was used. The results of the research showed that teachers find science and mathematics activities necessary and important but they generally abstain from practice because they are inadequate. It is clear that teachers are often inadequate in using materials and they prefer mostly traditional, structured materials. Some suggestions were made according to these results.

In this study, the social network structure of the studies conducted in the early childhood towards the concept of temperament was examined. The research was considered as a descriptive study since it examined the relation between the existing studies according to the citations. The concept of temperament in early childhood has taken its place in the literature as a concept that began to be studied in 1955. 1025 studies on this subject in the Web of Science database were examined. Studies conducted between 1975-2020 were analyzed. In this study, Cite Space program, one of the social network analysis programs, was used. Documents were examined in relation to co-citations by authors, journals, countries and sources. As a result of the examinations, it was concluded that the most cited country was the United States, the most cited author Mary K. Rothbart, and the most cited journal Child Development. As a result of examining the co-references in the documents, 18 clusters named using the LLR (log-likelihood) algorithm were obtained. The names of the clusters and the most cited articles were determined in accordance with the network structure. At the same time, it is possible to see which clusters are more active in which periods and when the co-citations are analyzed according to the references and which articles are referred to more frequently. The current studies on this subject have been included in child obesity risk, postnatal plasticity revisited and extended and dispositional negativity clusters. With the results of this research, a map of information is presented to the researchers who want to study on the subject of temperament in early childhood. It can direct the researchers according to their sub-fields. It gives information about important sources, authors, and journals about the subject of interest, according to the tendency of the researcher. In addition, the researcher could see current issues or what topics the literature lacks. Therefore, as with this topic, authors can obtain detailed information about the subject area with such bibliometric studies while choosing the field of study.