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The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between the disposition of critical thinking and the perception about problem solving skills of the students. In descriptive studies correlational model was used. Disposition of critical thinking points data was collected in this study by using the "The California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory" developed by Facione, Facione and Giancarlo(1988) and the perceptions about Problem Solving Skills data was collected by using the problem solving skills inventory adapted into Turkish by Sahin, Sahin and Heppner (1993). Based on the findings of the study, it was revealed that there was a moderate, positive and significant relationship between pre-service music teachers' disposition of critical thinking and perceptions about problem solving. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Music course aims to develop children's abilities in all aspects. In order to have individuals who possess certain ethical and moral values, maintain a consciousness of national unity, and feel responsible for themselves and their countries, value education should also be given importance in the music course. The aim of this study is to examine the songs included in the music course books of primary level 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades in delivering certain values. Content analysis was used since it was aimed to examine the songs in the music course books. In the study, by examining the songs in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade music course books in detail, it was tried to identify the target values exposed to students. The values that were included in the texts were identified, and the sentences including these values were typed and saved on computer. The identified values were grouped using certain codes and categories were made up based on these codes. It was determined that 19 different values were used in lyrics referred in music education course books. Love of country, love of animal, and enjoy life were most frequently repeated values.

Today, entrepreneurship has gained great importance, especially with the transition from industrial society to information society. Therefore, in order to ensure economic and social development of societies, entrepreneurship must comprehensively be supported, encouraged and entrepreneurship education has to be provided. Many similar qualities and skills among individuals having reflective thinking abilities and entrepreneurial individuals arise when reflective thinking, one of the higher-level thinking skills, is defined as the cognitive inquiry that will lead the individual to produce new knowledge and develop alternative ways. The purpose of this research is to identify whether physical education and sports teachers' reflective thinking themes predict entrepreneurial characteristics. Research is designed in accordance with the relational screening model. Semerci (2007), “Reflective Thinking Tendency Scale” and Yilmaz and Sunbul (2009), “Entrepreneurship Scale for University Students” were used as data collection tool. Multilevel regression analysis was benefitted in the analyze of the data. As a result of this research, it is determined that effective and interrogated teaching sub-dimension was the most independent variable contributing to the entrepreneurial characteristics of physical education and sports pre-service teachers and this was followed by continuous and intentional thinking, responsibility of teaching and science and looking professional sub-dimensions. It has also been determined that sub-dimensions such as open-mindedness, foresighted and sincere and researcher do not make a meaningful contribution to the prediction of entrepreneurial characteristics. Based on these results, it can be said that a pre-service teacher with high entrepreneurial characteristics will have higher reflective thinking tendencies. Besides, it is also possible to analyze how thinking skills such as critical thinking, creative thinking, problem solving and supra-cognitive thinking predict entrepreneurial characteristics.

The aim of this research is to examine the relationship between the values of primary and music teacher candidates and their cheating attitudes in terms of different variables. The study group of the research is composed of 249 students who are studying at the Departments of Primary School Teaching and Music Education at Adnan Menderes University Faculty of Education. In the research, Portrait Values Questionnaire and personal information form were used. In the analysis of data, t test, ANOVA, correlation analysis and tukey HSD test was used. It was detected that teacher candidates had high levels of value perceptions and the three most important values were universalism, security and self-direction. It was found that there was a statistically significant difference in primary school and music teacher candidates in all values except achievement, hedonism and stimulation according to their departments. This difference was on behalf of primary school teacher candidates. Another conclusion of the research was the gender variable. In all values except power, significant difference was on behalf of females. When the value scores of primary school and music teacher candidates were examined, all the values except for power were on behalf of freshmen. It was seen that there were significant differences between the teacher candidates’ academic achievement perceptions and their value scores of achievement, stimulation, self-direction, universalism, benevolence, tradition, conformity and security except power and hedonism values. Findings related to cheating, which was another variance of the research, are as follows; cheating attitudes of primary school and music teacher candidates were moderate. It was detected that the participants had negative attitudes towards cheating. A significant difference was detected in cheating attitude according to the department. In other words, it was seen that music teacher candidates were more positive towards cheating. When cheating attitudes according to gender variable were examined, it was seen that there was a significant difference on behalf of females.

Sanatin, bilimin ve gunluk hayatin isleyisini belirleyen etkenler zaman ilerledikce hizla degismektedir. Bu degisimler ve gelismeler egitim anlayisinda ki degisiklikleri de beraberinde getirmektedir. Onceki yillarda ogretmenin aktif oldugu yontemler artik yerini ogrencinin aktif oldugu anlayislara birakmistir. Ogrenci merkezli egitim yontemlerinden bir tanesi de yaratici dramadir. Bu arastirmanin amaci Pamukkale ve Adnan Menderes Universitelerinde ogrenim goren sinif ogretmeni adaylarinin yaratici drama yontemi kullanmaya iliskin ozyeterlik algilarini cesitli degiskenlere gore degerlendirmektir. Arastirmada betimsel arastirma modellerinden tarama yontemine basvurulmustur. Tarama modelinde arastirmaya konu olan birey, konu ya da nesne, kendi kosullari icinde, var oldugu sekliyle tanimlanmaya calisilir. Arastirma Pamukkale Universitesi ve Adnan Menderes Universitelilerinin Egitim Fakultelerinde ogrenim gormekte olan toplam 380 sinif ogretmeni adayi ile gerceklestirilmistir. Arastirma verilerinin elde edilmesinde Can ve Gunhan (2009) tarafindan gelistirilmis olan “Yaratici Drama Yontemini Kullanmaya Yonelik Ozyeterlik Algisi Olcegi” kullanilmistir. Bu arastirmada ogrencilerin yaratici drama yontemini kullanmaya yonelik ozyeterlilik algilari belirlenmeye calisilmistir. Her iki Universitenin sinif ogretmenligi anabilim dallarinda ogrenim goren ogretmen adaylarina uygulanan olcek verilerinden elde edilen puanlar SPSS 18.00 istatistik programinda degerlendirilmistir. Verilerin cozumlenmesinde yuzde, frekans, t-testi ve tek yonlu varyans analizinden yararlanilmistir. Yaratici drama yontemini kullanmaya yonelik ozyeterlik algilari acisindan PAU ve ADU ogrencileri arasinda anlamli bir farklilik oldugu ancak “sinif duzeyi, atolye egitimi almis olma, ogretim elemaninin yeterli bulma” degiskenlerinde anlamli bir farklilik olmadigi tespit edilmistir.

Teacher candidates trained to be teachers in education faculties acquire certain academic skills and affective characteristics, which is important for the quality of their future teaching. Perception of self-efficacy that can be briefly defined as "professional confidence" is one of the affective characteristics which shapes teacher candidates' success. The Aim of the Study: The aim of this study is to evaluate professional self-efficacy perceptions of elementary and music teacher candidates studying in education faculties at Pamukkale and Adnan Menderes Universities in comparison. Method of the Study: In this study, survey method was used to identify students' professional self-efficacy levels as is, gather quantitative data, and produce statistics relevant to the issue. The population of the study is the teacher candidates studying their 4th year in Elementary and Music Education Departments of the Education Faculties at Denizli Panukkale and Aydin Adnan Menderes Universities. In the study conducted with 167students (elementary education=132; music education=35) from Pamukkale University and 144 students (elementary education=95; music education=28) from Adnan Menderes University an inventory was administered to 290 students in total. In this study,"Teacher Candidates Self-Efficacy Inventory" developed by Kahyaoglu and Yangin (2007) was used to identify the students' perceptions. In the study, self-efficacy inventory was administered to each student. Students' perceptions were identified and evaluated. The data gathered from the inventory was analyzed and mean scores, standard deviations and t-test scores were calculated with SPSS and EXCEL. The results of the study based on data analysis are as follows: Teacher candidates' self-efficacy perceptions do not differ according to gender, university, major and schooling shift (day or evening) variables. However, a meaningful difference was found between music and elementary teacher candidates. This difference can be attributed to that music students study at a department which requires certain abilities. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of Prof. Dr. Huseyin Uzunboylu