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    ACCREDITATION FOR ACADEMIC QUALITY
    (Int Scientific Conference Sgem, 2008) Senel, Secil; Yalcin, Dilek; Yildirim, Osman
    As it is well-known, the latest trend in academia has been the rapid growth of online or distance learning courses. Globalization makes mobility easy and possible. That is why a graduate has the opportunity to find not only a nationwide but also a worldwide occupation. In most countries in the world, the function of accreditation for educational institutions is conducted by a government ministry of education. The purpose of this study is presenting the goal of the accreditation. The goal of accreditation is to ensure that education provided by institutions of higher education meets acceptable levels of quality. In order to present the educational philosophy that monitors the international values and standards, ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) in engineering education and international standards in medical education are taken into consideration. Engineering departments of a few universities have been accredited with respect to the ABET criteria. In medical education a few universities have been initiating the accreditation process in Turkey. In this study, the accreditation and assessment methods in higher education are discussed.
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    ADJECTIVE CHECK LIST AND PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS: EVIDENCE FROM TURKEY
    (Int Scientific Conference Sgem, 2008) Erkoc, Tuba; Kurt, Dogus; Bayramoglu, Oya; Yildirim, Halil; Yildirim, Osman
    It is called stress when an individual begins to act different physically and mentally as a result of the fact that he or she is affected by the environment lie or she lived and worked in. To block or balance the process of adaptation to stressful circumstances of people can be in different ways. However, it may not be possible to get rid of stress completely. So that, an individual who is overstressed can suffer aggressiveness, non-confidence, difficulties in focusing, chronic tiredness, tension, sadness, anxiety, anger, poor health, depression, etc. Naturally, this causes the individual, who is overstressed, to have mental, physical, and psychological illnesses. As a result, it becomes more difficult for the individual to adapt his or her social environment. In this research, the stress levels of the parents having disabled students was assessed using Abidin's (1990) Parenting Stress Index (PSI) on a sample of 190 parents. According to the results, it has been achieved that parents who has low socio-economic status, are exposed to more stress to the extent of parenting distress.
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    THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
    (Int Scientific Conference Sgem, 2008) Bal, Pervin; Yildirim, Osman; Yildirim, Halil
    In the research, The Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA-scale) proposed by Hjemdal, Friborg, Martinussen, and Rosenvinge was used to assess students' social intelligence. RSA-scale is consisted of 45 items including live dimensions: (1) personal competence, (2) social competence, (3) family coherence, (4) social support, and (5) personal structure. The internal consistency (Chronbach's alpha) of all the dimensions is satisfactory high. The inventory was completed by the students twice, separated by a two-month interval in order to minimize the translation errors. 452 students at file Turkish University of Vocational Studies participated in this research. The total sample was used for confirmative analyses of the factor structure of the RSA and correlations.
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    INTERNET ADDICTION RESEARCH IN THE SCHOOL OF VOCATIONAL STUDIES: EVIDENCE FROM TURKEY
    (Int Scientific Conference Sgem, 2008) Kurt, Dogus; Tekin, Abdulkadir; Yildirim, Osman
    As a growing trend in the world, internet-based remote education both in governmental and private education institutes is getting popular in Turkey as it is to be all over the world. Internet-based education models give learners the chance to interact with the system. The aim of this research is to examine the relationship between personality and internet addiction of the students of Vocational school in a few of private University in Istanbul, Turkey. There is a significant correlation between the student personality which are depicted via adjective checklist and the student' internet addiction. Adjective Check List (ACL) items consist of adjectives which are words and/or phrases used for daily descriptions in Turkish Language. The scale composed of 25 items is examined for psychometric properties and internal consistency. In this research, Internet Addiction Inventory and ACL were conducted at the same time to a sample of 254 students of School of Vocational Studies. Internet addiction and personality correlates of ACL are of interest oil two counts. It is important to know what variables may be confounded with tendency of internet, usage.
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    RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING
    (Int Scientific Conference Sgem, 2008) Tekin, Abdulkadir; Yildirim, Halil; Yildirim, Osman
    The increasing number of recent researches indicates that emotional intelligence is more important than IQ in many fields. In literature, many quantitative findings indicate that there is a significant relationship between academic achievement and emotional intelligence skills. In other words, analysis indicates that emotional intelligence skills can serve as a indicator of academic achievement and effective learning. The main focus of this research is to discuss the relationship between emotional intelligence skills and academic achievement in foreign language and explore how their relationship may influence language learning. The sample data for this research is 372 School of Vocational Studies students in Istanbul. Thus, this research aimed at exploring the relationship between academic achievement (effective learning) and emotional intelligence skills. In the research, participants emotional intelligence was assessed by the Emotional Competence Inventory (ECI, 2nd Version) developed by Boyatzis and Goleman. According to the results, a strong relationship (r>0,40) was found between academic achievement and emotional intelligence skills.
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    Relationships between teachers' perceived leadership style, students' learning style, and academic achievement: a study on high school students
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2008) Yildirim, Osman; Acar, Ahmet Cevat; Bull, Susan; Sevinc, Levent
    There is debate about whether the leadership style of the teacher or the learning style of the student affects academic achievement more. A large sample (n = 746) of eighth-grade students in Istanbul, Turkey, participated in a study where the leadership style of the teacher was assessed in terms of people orientation and task orientation. The learning styles examined were: group, individual, visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic. Multiple discriminant analysis indicated that teacher leadership style was the main factor affecting academic performance. No significant relationship was found between learning style and academic achievement.