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This study investigates the levels of anxiety among university students regarding programming and examines the factors influencing this anxiety. The research explores the relationships between students’ characteristics such as, risk-taking, leadership qualities, openness to experience, and resistance to change with their programming anxiety. The study’s participants were 427 university students who had undergone programming education prior to 2023. Individual innovativeness and programming concerns of the research participants were analyzed primarily with descriptive statistical methods. Afterwards, the relationships between the sub-dimensions of individual innovativeness and levels of programming anxiety were investigated using relational screening models. Results indicate a slight positive correlation between reluctance towards change and receptiveness to new experiences with programming anxiety, whereas a modest negative correlation is observed between willingness to take risks and leadership qualities. The combination of these factors moderately and significantly predicts students’ levels of programming anxiety. The research offers valuable perspectives for educators and developers of programs seeking to create methods to ease the anxiety students face in programming education.

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Objective: This study was conducted to determine the individual innovativeness of the operating room nurses and the individual factors affecting them. Operating room nurses, who work in operating rooms where many biomedical devices and sensitive instruments are used and are constantly changing with the developments in technology, need to lead in terms of individual innovative features and adapt quickly to change. Methods: A descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted between 15 November and 31 December 2021 with the participation of 153 operating room nurses in the province of Istanbul. "Individual Innovation scale (IIS)" and "Descriptive Information Form" were used as data collection tools. Data analysis was done with the SPSS 25.0 program. Results: The operating room nurses' total IIS score was 68.7±7.7, while their opinion leadership, resistance to change, and risk-taking subscale scores were 28.4±3.4, 23.2±5.5, 17.1±1.8 respectively. It was determined that gender, marital status, education level, years of experience in the operating room, surgical department, and institution characteristics affected individual innovativeness characteristics (p<0.05; p<0.01). Conclusion: It was determined that the innovative behavior characteristics of the operating room nurses are mostly interrogators and the need to support and develop their innovativeness characteristics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to compare the individual innovativeness levels and job satisfactions of academician nurses at the university according to generations. This analytical-cross-sectional study was conducted with academician nurses working in faculties of health sciences and nursing faculties of state/foundation universities in our country between September 2018 and February 2019. The sample group consisted of 148 academician nurses who were selected by the improbable random sampling method, met the criteria for participation in the study, agreed to participate in the study, and filled out the online data collection forms completely. "Introductory Form" which included the socio-demographic characteristics of the participants, "Innovativeness Scale" (IS) and "Minnesota Job Satisfaction Questionnaire" (MSQ) were used to collect the data. In the analysis of the data, descriptive statistics, Kruskall Wallis and Mann Whitney U test were used. Majority of the participants were women (94.6%), married (62.8%) and Y generation (79.7%) individuals. While the participants IS score average was 74.81±8.82; the mean MSQ score was 3.74±0.56. As the result, academician nurses' individual innovativeness levels were found to be at the "pioneer" level and male academicians' openness to experience sub-dimension scores were higher. Professors' general satisfaction and intrinsic satisfaction scores from the MSQ sub-dimensions were significantly higher. It was determined that the job satisfaction levels of the Y generation academician nurses were lower than the X generation academician nurses. Accordingly, it is thought that it would be beneficial to plan initiatives to improve the individual innovativeness of academic nurses and increase their job satisfaction, and to consider generational characteristics during these planning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this study was to determine the individual innovativeness perceptions of coaches and Physical Education Teachers and to examine the differentiation situations of participant perceptions in terms of some demographic variables. The research is a quantitative study and was conducted in a descriptive screening mode. The sample of the study consisted of a total of 296 participants including 140 coaches working in Kahramanmaraş Youth and Sports Provincial Directorate and 156 physical education teachers working in the central district of Provincial National Education Directorate. The data of the study was analyzed using the statistical software program. The arithmetic mean and Standard deviation values were determined for the data analysis, t-Test and One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) test were used to determine the differentiation status of the scores obtained from the variables, and Post-Hoc Tests were used to determine the difference between the differences in F value. As a result of the research; it was seen that the participants' perceptions of individual Innovativeness were close to the innovative level and the participants were mostly in the Pioneer and Interrogator groups. It was concluded that the perceptions of the participants on the individual Innovativeness scales subscales differed significantly in terms of gender, marital status, education, task type, age and branch type variables, and there was no significant difference found in terms of seniority variable. One of the more significant findings to emerge from this study is that physical education teachers have higher scores than coaches in opinion leadership, openness to experience, and risk-taking, however, in terms of resistance to change that coaches have higher scores than physical education teachers. As a result, with this study, individual innovation perceptions of trainers and physical education teachers were determined in terms of different variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bu araştırmanın amacı; eğitim yöneticilerinin yaşam boyu öğrenme eğilimleri ile bireysel yenilikçilik düzeylerini çeşitli değişkenlere (cinsiyet, yöneticilik deneyimi, yaş ve eğitim düzeyi) göre incelemek ve eğitim yöneticilerinin bireysel yenilikçilik düzeyleri ile yaşam boyu öğrenme eğilimleri arasındaki ilişkiyi belirlemektir. Araştırmada bu amaçla tarama yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Araştırmanın katılımcılarını 2015-2016 eğitim öğretim yılında Bartın ilinde görev yapan ve araştırmaya gönüllü olarak katılan 164 eğitim yöneticisi oluşturmaktadır. Araştırma verileri araştırmacı tarafından geliştirilen anket, yaşam boyu öğrenme eğilimleri ölçeği ve bireysel yenilikçilik ölçeği ile elde edilmiştir. Araştırma sonucunda; eğitim yöneticilerinin yaşam boyu öğrenme eğilimleri ile bireysel yenilikçilik düzeyleri arasında pozitif yönde, orta düzeyde ve manidar bir ilişkinin olduğu sonucuna ulaşılmıştır. Araştırmadan elde edilen bulgular doğrultusunda araştırmacılara, uygulayıcılara ve karar vericilere çeşitli önerilerde bulunulmuştur.

Organizational culture affects employees' attitudes, feelings, behaviors, performance, and motivation. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of organizational culture on individual innovation. For the purpose of the study, a survey was conducted with a total of 102 white and blue-collar employees in a company operating in Afyonkarahisar, a national cement company. T-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to determine whether employee perceptions of organizational culture and individual innovation differed according to various demographic variables. Correlation and regression analyze were applied to determine the relationship between organizational culture and individual innovation. As a result of statistical analyzes, it was found that the dominant organizational culture type was a hierarchical culture, and a positive and moderate correlation was found between organizational culture and individual innovation. At the same time, it was found that the individual innovation levels of the participants showed a significant difference according to the status of being a managerial task, occupation, education and income level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this study was to determine of and lifelong learning tendencies and individual innovativeness levels. The study was designed as a descriptive research and employed relational model. The participants of this study were 819 pre-service teachers attending a teacher training program at a public university at the western part of Turkey during the academic year of 2017-2018. The data of the study were collected using: “Lifelong Learning Scale” and “Individual Innovativeness Scale”. The data obtained were examined using descriptive statistics. In addition, in order to determine the correlation between pre-service teachers’ scores in the scale of lifelong learning and their scores in the idividual innovativeness scale the Sperman Brown rank order correlation analysis was employed. The findings showed that pre-service teachers had a lifelong learning tendencies was high however their individual innovativeness levels was low. At the same time, there is a meaningless between the pre-service teachers’ lifelong learning tendencies and their individual innovativeness levels. For all that sub-dimension scores indicates that there is a meaning relationship between the pre-service teachers’ lifelong learning tendencies and their individual innovativeness levels. Based on the findings obtained several suggestions were developed.

With the increase in the importance of innovation for organization, the position of innovation within the organization has changed and innovation has started to spread to all units of the enterprise while it was only under the responsibility of a specific unit or person The spread of innovation to the organization has increased the expectation of the employee to exhibit innovative work behavior. There are several factors within the organization that affect the employee's innovative work behavior. In this study, it is aimed to determine the weights of the factors that determine the innovative work behavior in order to be used in the score calculation algorithm of the decision support system which will determine the level of the innovative work behavior of the employee by investigating the innovative business behavior. Firstly, the factors that determine innovative work behavior were found out, and then 52 experts with innovation experience were surveyed to determine the scores of the factors. The first part of the questionnaire contains demographic questions; in the second part, there are questions about the perception and experience of innovation and in the last section, there is a question of scoring factors. Survey data were analyzed by using PASW Statistics 18 program with Wilcoxon sign test, Kruskal Walllis and Man Whitney-U tests. As a result of the analysis, the first three determinants, which have the highest average score, were idea generation, inner interest and leader's effect, while the negative image impact of innovation was the lowest. The study is important because it handles innovative work behavior in a multidimensional way in practice and takes the lead to develop a scale for innovative work behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this research, it was aimed to examine the individual innovativeness levels and categories of biology teachers and to examine them in terms of school type, gender, age, seniority, education level and daily internet use variables. Survey method was used in the research in quantitative research approaches. The “Individual Innovativeness Scale” developed by Hurt, Joseph and Cook (1977) and adapted to Turkish by Kılıçer and Odabaşı (2010) was used as data collection tool in the research. The research was carried out by 58 biology teachers working in public schools affiliated to the Ministry of Education of Diyarbakır Province in the academic year of 2015-2016. Independent samples t-test, frequency, percentage, and One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used in the data analysis as statistical techniques. As a result of the research, the majority of the biology teachers in terms of individual innovativeness categories are in the category of 'interrogator'. In the research, it was revealed that the majority of individual innovation levels are at a high level of innovation. Individual innovativeness scores do not show a significant difference according to school type, gender, age, seniority and level of education. According to the variable of daily internet use, individual innovativeness scores have reached a significant difference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Psychological capital is applications related to practicing on the strengths and positive psychological capacities of human resources to improve the performance of businesses and competitive power. The fact that the tourism industry has a labor- intensive structure, working with a labor force that has a high level of positive psychological capital turns to an advantage. Another factor that can make a difference between the opponents is the workers performing tasks with innovative thinking and by applying innovations. The purpose of this research is to measure the effect of psychological capital levels on the innovative thinking structure of the employees working in hotel enterprises of Van Province. The questionnaire was selected as the data collection tool in the study, was implemented between December 2017 and April 2018 and the entire sample was reached. 148 collected data were evaluated and analyzed by the SPSS program. As a result of the research, it has been determined that the psychological capital levels of the employees who work in the hotel enterprises differ according to the number of star hotels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are courses designed for large numbers of participants, that can be accessed by anyone anywhere as long as they have an internet connection, are open to everyone without entry qualifications, and offer a full/complete course experience online for free. A big majority of the early research conducted about MOOCs focused on identification of the characteristics of MOOC participants such as educational levels, demographic characteristics, learning strategies, and so forth. However, no study has noticed about the MOOC participants' categories of innovativeness such as "Innovators", "Early Adopters", "Early Majority", "Late Majority" and "Laggards". This study intended to reveal the Turkish participants' innovativeness profiles and their demographic characteristics in MOOCs offered in Turkish. It was expected to discover a list of ideas for designing effective MOOCs. The study was conducted in 4 MOOCs offered via Anadolu University's MOOCs platform, AKADEMA; an online questionnaire including the Individual Innovativeness Scale was used to collect data. The results have uncovered that although the participants have shown a variety of innovativeness profiles, quite a number of them shown 'early majority' and 'late majority' characteristics. Relationships between this result and the participants' demographics were also investigated. There was no relationship between participants' innovativeness levels and demographic characteristics such as age, gender, and education levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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