Since final grades have been announced, now I can write my ideas related to this semester. I did not want to write before because sometimes it can be misunderstood when you say them before grading. :)))

I really enjoyed being a member of this lesson. It was a great semester and class. I would like to thank all of you for everything, especially to our instructor, Evrim Baran. Now I have a huge theories of instruction folder with all of our readings and presentation materials which will be a great source for my future studies. I must say I did not think I will learn that much at the beginning of the semester but now I am glad that I took this course.

I hope we will meet in another class in the future.

Happy holidays!

These are the articles related to epistemological world view scale which I brought to the classroom yesterday.


Schraw, G., & Olafson, L. (2002). Teachers' epistemological world views and educational practices. Issues in Education: Contributions from Educational Psychology, 8(2), 99-148. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/springer/jcep/2003/00000003/00000002/art00007

Lori Olafson, Gregory Schraw, Teachers' beliefs and practices within and across domains, International Journal of Educational Research, Volume 45, Issues 1-2, 2006, Pages 71-84, ISSN 0883-0355, 10.1016/j.ijer.2006.08.005.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883035506000917)

Ozgul Yilmaz‐Tuzun & Mustafa Sami Topcu (2008): Relationships among
Preservice Science Teachers' Epistemological Beliefs, Epistemological World Views, and Self‐efficacy Beliefs, International Journal of Science Education, 30:1, 65-85. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09500690601185113

This is the news: http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/id/25290563/

This is the original article: http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~johnson/snp/Downloads/Brain%20Plasticity%20and%20IQ%20During%20Adolescence.pdf