This investigation focused on pre-service teachers’ sentiments, attitudes, and concerns regarding inclusive practices in Turkey. A total of 406 students from different departments of a university school of education participated in this study. The Sentiments, Attitudes and Concerns about Inclusive Education Revised (SACIE-R) scale was used as a data collection tool to measure pre-service teachers’ engagement with and perceptions of inclusion and assess the rationales underlying their beliefs about and support for the practice. The findings indicated that there is a significant difference in terms of pre-service teachers’ attitudes, concerns, and sentiments regarding inclusion among departments and according to respondents’ levels of confidence in teaching students with disabilities. The pre-school education teacher candidates had more positive attitudes towards inclusion. The findings revealed that pre-service teachers need more opportunities to interact with and teach students with special needs during their school practicums. They also revealed that pre-service teachers need to have experience and confidence as well as knowledge about legislation and policies related to inclusion.

The preponderance of visually oriented and visually complex concepts and information in science classrooms poses significant challenges to learning among students with visual impairment (VI). It is acknowledged that the good quality of practical work promotes the engagement and interest and curiosity of students as well as developing a range of skills, science knowledge, and conceptual understanding. Specifically, this study examined the contribution of activities and materials developed for teaching science to students with VI which are found difficult to comprehend even by the sighted students. The research was carried out in three steps. In the first step, the exploratory case study was used in order to identify the needs of the students. In the second step, instructional materials and activities were designed to meet the needs of students. In the last step, the evaluative case study was used to examine the effectiveness of the designed activities and activity materials. In conclusion as students with VI are easily distracted by unnecessary details, it is equally essential to design materials and activities to be as simple as possible, as well as focusing on only few core ideas in each practical work, rather than covering several ideas through a single activity.

Dyslexia is defined as difficulties determining speech sounds and learning the relationships of speech sounds with letters and words. Children with learning disabilities may experience problems in attention, memory, perception, motor processing, information processing speed, planning and problem-solving skills. Although lack of phonological processing is considered one of the leading causes of dyslexia, the level of influence of other underlying factors such as cognitive deficits on reading gain is still unclear. Numerous studies have shown that dyslexia is associated with poor working memory, a critical component of reading skill acquisition because the temporary processing of newly introduced and previously stored information involves critical thinking, use of cognitive executive skills, comprehension, and learning tasks. Working memory is often used synonymously with short-term memory, but some theorists consider their functions distinct in that working memory allows for the manipulation of the information temporarily stored in short-term memory. Working memory, which provides preservation, integration and processing of verbal and visual-spatial information, works together with short-term memory to help the mind manipulate and determine important information while temporary. This study discussed the effects of working memory on reading, reading comprehension, and high-level language skills.

The aim of this study is to taxonomically analyse the 9th grade Turkish chemistry curriculum. A descriptive analysis method is used throughout the study. The document analysis is applied as a method to construct the codes and themes to reflect the results of the study. The results of the study exhibit that most of learning outcomes of the 9th grade chemistry curriculum focus on understand level (61%), and other levels of outcomes are remember (16%), apply (5%), analyse (13%), evaluate (0%) and create (5%). In addition, learning outcomes in the distribution of the cognitive domain are conceptual knowledge (79%), factual knowledge (16%), metacognitive knowledge (5%) and procedural knowledge (0%). The analysis of the textbook clearly shows that majority of the outcomes of units are based on conceptual knowledge and factual knowledge in particular units; however, the textbook has no learning outcomes as procedural and metacognitive in some units such as second, third and fourth units. Keywords: Chemistry curriculum; revised Bloom’s taxonomy; secondary science education;

Students with visual impairments have the same span of cognitive abilities as their peers, but science instruction typically relies very heavily on vision. The preponderance of visually oriented and visually complex science concepts poses significant challenges to learning among students with visual impairment. This study is engaging, hands-on ideas that can be done to teach thermal insulation concept for students with visual impairment in the classroom. 8 students including 2 blind students participated in the study.

Bu çalışmada fen bilimleri dersini kapsayan yenilenmiş Bloom taksonomisiyle ilişkili çalışmaların analizi yapılmıştır. Bu amaçla, ilgili alanda yapılan çalışmalar yıl, amaç, yöntem ve ulaşılan sonuçlar bakımından ayrıntılı olarak incelenmiştir. Çalışmada doküman incelemesi yapılmıştır. 2001-2018 yılları arasında fen alanı ile yenilenmiş Bloom taksonomisiyle ilişkili tespit edilen 14 çalışma meta-senteze tabi tutulmuştur. Yapılan çalışmalarda doküman analizinin tercih edildiği ve konu alanları, sınav soruları ve program kazanımlarının incelendiği tespit edilmiştir. Sonuç olarak doküman analizinin veri toplama aracı olarak yoğunlukta kullanıldığı çalışmalarda Yenilenmiş Bloom Taksonomisi’nin bilgi boyutuna göre genel olarak alt düzey bilgilerin yer aldığı, sınavlarda ve program kazanımlarında Yenilenmiş Bloom Taksonomisi basamaklarının homojen dağılım göstermediği ve üst düzey bilgi boyutuna ağırlık verilmediği tespit edilmiştir.