COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PROJECT STUDY IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FMM 6052 PROJECT STUDY IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 10

Offered By

Mathematics Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MELIKE YIĞIT KOYUNKAYA

Offered to

Mathematics Teacher Education

Course Objective

To gain knowledge and skills to organize methods and techniques that are basic for project study and to organize and carry on a project and to report it.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To know how to plan a project and how to carry on.
2   To be able to make literature study on the subject.
3   To be able to choose suitable method for a Project.
4   To be able to choose and prepare suitable data collection tools in a Project.
5   To be able to analyze the collected data in the Project.
6   To be able to prepare a report fort the Project.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Stages of a project, the classification depending on the paradigms that they based on, epistemological approaches.
2 The literature review, literature review objectives, literature review organization, alternative sources for the literature review
3 Identifying and writing stages of the project justification, utilizing from literature for the creation of justification.
4 Stages of problem determining generally and transformation of the determined problem to research questions, hypotehsese sentences in quantitaive research, assumptions in qualitative research and the questions to explore and to understand the phenomena.
5 Identifying the aim and defining the importance of the study. Why is the aim appropriate for researching the problems Why is this study important
6 Data collection methods ans designs.
7 Tools used in qualitative and quantitative data collection and their features.
8 Course and Midterm axem.
9 Different approaches in qualitative and quantitative data analysis.
10 Organizing the findings according to research problems and writing them.
11 Writing the conclusions and suggestions of the research.
12 Students' presentations.
13 Students' presentations.
14 Students' presentations.
15 Final exam.

Recomended or Required Reading

Grouws, D. A., 1997; Qualitative Research Methods in Mathematics Education Monograph, Number 9 National Councilof Teachers of Mathematics. Virginia.
Kelly, A. E. 1999; Handbook of Research Design in Mathematics and Science Education, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Çepni S. (2005) Araştırma ve Proje Çalışmalarına Giriş, Trabzon.
Bell J.(2010) Doing Your Research Project, Open University Pres,USA.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Discussion, Question-Answer, Problem solving, Active Learning Tecniques

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.40 + FIN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.40 + RST * 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

WILL BE ANNOUNCED

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ayten.ceylan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 2 40 80
Preparing presentations 2 20 40
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 250

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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