Today, the most used educational materials are textbooks. In this study, the aim is to analyze the images of "Elementary Turkish Republic Revolution History and Kemalism" textbook. The research is a qualitative study based on the analysis of the images. The data source of the study is consisted of Elementary Turkish Republic Revolution History and Kemalism textbook which was accepted as the study material by the decision of the Ministry of National Education and the Board of Education and Discipline dated 05.31.2013 and numbered 29. A document analysis was carried out to gather the data of the study. The analysis of the obtained data was tabulated as frequency/percentage. The study indicates that civilian figures were used more than military figures in the textbook. The images does not include sufficient evidence such as newspaper clippings, maps or treaties.

Social capital is a result of human relations that depend on trust and is a non-material capital. Three important product of social capital are trust, common values and the emotion of belongness created by social networks. ---To know people and to be in touch with them is not enough for the emergence of a social capital.--- To feel belonged to the people that you know, to trust these people, and to believe that you are sharing common values with these people are necessary for the social capital. The aim of this research is to develop 5 distinct measurement tools for social capital that measures each dimension separately. For this, three types of trust; strategic trust, generalized trust, institutional trust; common values and belongness were taken into consideration. Five separate measurement tools were developed and were tested for their validity, and reliability. Tools used 590 subject that are university stundents and graduated.Due to the fact that the validity and reliability tests have proved high, shows that these measurement tools could be used in measuring whether the people of Turkey have social capital and in measuring the details of their social capitals.

One of the social networking sites, Facebook has more than 14 million users in Turkey, which places Turkey into third position among all countries. As revealed by research, social networking sites are environments used by people to express their emotions. The current study aims to develop a scale to determine what types of emotions are expressed by university students on Facebook. The study group of the present research consists of 347 students from the Education Faculty of Aksaray University in the city of Aksaray in the fall term of 2012. As a result of extreme value analysis, 15 observations were excluded from the analysis and thus, analyses were conducted on the data collected from the remaining 322 participants. In the present study, in order to test the construct validity of the scale factor analysis was run and KMO was found to be .78. principal components analysis was conducted to determine the factors on the data. Exploratory and confirmatary Factor Analysis revealed that the items are subsumed under three factors being loving Facebook, feeling comfortable on Facebook with a pseudo name and felling uncomfortable with the sharings on Facebook. In the reliability analysis of the Scale of Expressing Emotions on Facebook, Cronbach Alpha was found to be .82. This value shows that the scale is moderately reliable.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate life studies curriculum in terms of teacher opinions. The sample group of this study consists of 18 primary school teacher who work in Ordu province, Altinordu district. An unconstructed interview method was chosen as one of the qualitative methods. 6 interview questions were asked to the attendants with a face to face interaction. The data gathered was subjected to content analysis which is one of qualitative ones, and the results were categorized in tables. According to the findings reached in thisstudy, although the primary school teachers state that life studies course acquisitions are mostly applicable to the ordinary life, they say the time reserved for acquisitions and themes is inadequate, the course content seems to be far away from attraction, and the curriculum needs to be revised and updated. Although some of the teachers state that the facilities should be better, the others say that the classroom populations are too many and there areactivities for the first graders that requires them to write skills which seems as a inaccuracy. Some of the teachers think that there are enough topics related to Kemalism, and others say it is going to be positive to putinteresting activities and activities that arouse the national emotions amongst the students. As a consequence, the primary school teachers think that the life studies curriculum have the positive traits besides its deficits.

This study identifies prospective science teachers’ knowledge and achievement levels in terms of the variables affecting their problem-solving techniques. The aim is to develop a semiotic procedural knowledge model that will enable them to better understand complex subjects, such as magnetism. The model was established by generalizing the nodes from a semiotic model developed for multiple questions. Assessment and control mechanisms for learning systems were used in the model to maximize the production quality and efficiency of the prospective science teachers’ functional behaviors. The data for this study were collected through four measurement tools. The data were analyzed using VDOIHI scoring, and the knowledge and achievement levels were identified. The development of the semiotic procedural knowledge model was based on these knowledge and achievement levels. Results suggest that semiotic models are needed for improving the knowledge processes of prospective science teachers.