Development of Analytical Thinking Tendency Scale: Validity and Reliability Study

This study aims to develop a analytical thinking tendency scale for university students. In this direction, a draft scale, consisting of 50 items, was applied to 574 university students. The obtained data were subjected to reliability tests, explanatory and confirmatory factor analysis (EFA-CFA). The factor analysis showed that the scale is composed of 2 factors. The percentage of variance explained by the factors was calculated as 43%. The fit indexes of the model obtained via CFA showed that the fit indexes of the two-factor structure are sufficient. Considering the reliability coefficients and AVE values calculated within the scope of the research, it can be said that the measurement results are reliable, and the divergent validity of the measurement results is provided. As a result of analyzes, a 5-score Likert type analytical thinking tendency scale consisting of 19-items was developed. According to the findings, it is determined that the analytical thinking tendency scale is a valid and a reliable assessment tool

Examining the Two Categorical Datas by Jmetrik, Bilog-Mg and Irtpro with Application of Mathematics Exam

The aim of this study was to examination of two-category rated mathematics course final exam based on Item Response Theory data analyzed with the help of 2-Parameter Logistic Model and determination of the ability and standard errors with the help of different programs. This study involves a comparative interpretation of some descriptive statistics and analysis. Therefore, research has characterized as relational model which is one of the general survey models. For this purpose, 771 students’ final achievement test responses to a 20-point final exam, were analyzed by BILOG, IRT PRO and JMETRİK programs. Item Response Theory assumptions were analyzed with SPSS and Factor 9.3 programs. Working as a result of the analysis of data all of the IRT assumptions are met and the most appropriate model of data set has been concluded that the twoparameter logistic model. The study also found that there is a statistically significant relationship between the estimated parameters related to individual ability and error at the level of .01. Especially compared to the others there is also significant relationship between JMETRİK and IRT PRO. Different models and methods of research proposals have been made in terms of response patterns to be analyzed a gain for the same data set

USING INDICATOR FAUNA ELEMENTS IN BIOTOPE MAPS FOR URBAN LANDSCAPE PLANNING

With the developing technology and increasing population, cities are rapidly and unplanned growing around the world and therefore the natural environment and species are under threat. To eliminate the negative effects of this treatment, qualified tools and data are needed to make appropriate planning decisions. To benefit from the biotope maps, which are important data sources, they should be prepared rapidly in parallel with the speed of urbanization. Detection of sensitive ecosystems in urban landscapes can be achieved by mapping biotopes. These maps are also important for the development, management, and continuity of ecological infrastructures. From this point of view, to obtain a biotope map that will be prepared for urban landscape planning, it is thought that the determination of the required biotope classes with indicator fauna elements may be more practical. In this study, the literature based on indicator fauna elements was examined and evaluated concerning urban landscape planning. As a result, it was determined that biotope maps, prepared based on indicator fauna elements, could be obtained rapid and qualified data

CESAR: Automatic Induction of Compositional Instructions for Multi-turn Dialogs

Instruction-based multitasking has played a critical role in the success of large language models (LLMs) in multi-turn dialog applications. While publicly available LLMs have shown promising performance, when exposed to complex instructions with multiple constraints, they lag against state-of-the-art models like ChatGPT. In this work, we hypothesize that the availability of large-scale complex demonstrations is crucial in bridging this gap. Focusing on dialog applications, we propose a novel framework, CESAR, that unifies a large number of dialog tasks in the same format and allows programmatic induction of complex instructions without any manual effort. We apply CESAR on InstructDial, a benchmark for instruction-based dialog tasks. We further enhance InstructDial with new datasets and tasks and utilize CESAR to induce complex tasks with compositional instructions. This results in a new benchmark called InstructDial++, which includes 63 datasets with 86 basic tasks and 68 composite tasks. Through rigorous experiments, we demonstrate the scalability of CESAR in providing rich instructions. Models trained on InstructDial++ can follow compositional prompts, such as prompts that ask for multiple stylistic constraints.Comment: EMNLP 202

Comparison of the results of the generalizability theory with the inter-rater agreement coefficients: Comparison of the results of the generalizability theory

The agreement between raters is examined within the scope of the concept of “inter-rater reliability”. Although there are clear definitions of the concepts of agreement between raters and reliability between raters, there is no clear information about the conditions under which agreement and reliability level methods are appropriate to use. In this study, the comparison of eight different agreement coefficients used for the same purpose and the similarity of the results obtained with the G coefficient calculated within the framework of generalizability theory were examined. Within the scope of the study, it was determined that there were differences between the agreement coefficients of the evaluations made by the seven raters for 49 students over six open-ended items. As a result of the study, it was determined that the agreement coefficients differed significantly according to the method used and the level of agreement could be interpreted as low-medium-high according to the method used. In addition, as a result of the generalizability analysis, it was determined that the largest proportion of the variance components resulted from the difference between the raters and equal to 40% of the total variance between the raters. For this reason, it is recommended that researchers first examine the variance components originating from the person, item, and raters while determining the inter-rater reliability, and finally, report a few of the appropriate coefficients in case the inter-rater variance is low

Öğrencilerin Matematik Okuryazarlığı Performanslarının Aşamalı Doğrusal Model (HLM) ile İncelenmesi: PISA 2012 Türkiye Örneği

The objective of this study is to determine whether there is a difference among the mathematics literacy performances of students according to the student and school levels in the Turkey sample by using the data of the PISA 2012 test which is one of the large scale examinations. It is also an objective of the study to determine which variables have a significant effect on mathematics literacy in this two-level structure, i.e. student level and school level. The sample of the study consists of 4848 Turkish students from 170 schools participated the PISA 2012 test. Hierarchical Linear Model (HLM) was used in the analysis of the data. The variables within the study were dealt with at 2 levels, namely the school level and the student level. According to the findings obtained by the study, the effect of student level variables like gender, school type, motivation, self-efficacy, attitude, behaviour control, causes of failure, work discipline, mother education, father education, computer possession, age and tablet possession on the mathematics literacy at school was found to be statistically significant. On the other hand, it was determined that the school level variables like school revenues, number of mathematics teachers, number of students, teacher-student ratio and the morale of teachers have a significant effect on predicting the mathematics literacy. After the study, it was determined that nearly 63,17% of the difference between the mathematics literacy points of the students was caused by the difference between the schools.WoSTr-Dizi

Türkiye ve Amerika’da Engelli Öğrenciler için Yapılan Geniş Ölçekli Sınavların Yasal Sorumluluklar, Uygulama Yöntemleri ve Geçerlik Açısından İncelenmesi

Bu çalışma ile Türkiye ve Amerika’da (Amerika Birleşik Devletleri) engelli oldukları belirlenen öğrenciler için yapılan geniş ölçekli sınavların yasal sorumluluklar, uygulama yöntemleri ve geçerlik açısından karşılaştırılması amaçlanmıştır. Bu amaç kapsamında Türkiye’de ÖSYM tarafından yapılan sınavlar ile Amerika’da ETS tarafından gerçekleştirilen büyük ölçekli sınavlarda uygulanan yöntemlerin belirlenerek iki ülke arasındaki benzer ve farklı yönler ortaya çıkarılmıştır. Araştırma, Türkiye ve Amerika’da engelli oldukları belirlenen öğrenciler için gerçekleştirilen geniş ölçekli sınavların dayandıkları yasal sorumluluklar ve uygulama yöntemleri açısından karşılaştırılmaya çalışıldığı için betimsel çalışma örneğidir. Çalışmanın ilk bölümünde yurtdışında ve yurt içinde yayınlanan hakemli dergiler ile basılı kitaplar, ikinci bölümde ise engelli öğrenciler için şekil-grafik sorularının cevaplanmamasının kapsam geçerliğini nasıl etkilediğini belirlemek ve bu konuda neler yapılabileceğini ortaya çıkarmak amacıyla ölçme değerlendirme uzmanları ile engelliler konusunda çalışmaları bulunan akademisyen ve uzmanlaşmış personelden görüş alınması amacıyla hazırlanmış sorular kullanılarak görüşme yoluna gidilmiştir. Çalışma sonucunda Amerika’da uygulanan testin sunum şekli, zamanlamada yapılan değişiklikler, cevapların veriliş formatı ve sınava ilişkin genel düzenlemeler olmak üzere genel olarak dört başlık altında toplanan uyumsama çalışmalarının Türkiye’de tam olarak bir karşılığı olmadığı belirlenmiştir. Türkiye’de ekstra süre verme ve sınavı özel bir ortamda gerçekleştirme dışında diğer uygulamaların hiçbirinin gerçekleşmediği belirlenmiştir. Elde edilen bulgulara göre Amerika’da 1970’li yıllarda ele alınan engellilere yönelik düzenlemelerin Türkiye’de de de biran önce yetkililer tarafından ele alınarak yasal düzenlemelerin yerine getirilmesi gerektiği düşünülmektedir

Velocidapter: Task-oriented Dialogue Comprehension Modeling Pairing Synthetic Text Generation with Domain Adaptation

Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL