Mustafa Sever

Okul Ruh Sağlığı Hizmetlerinde Yaşanan Sorunlar: Psikolojik Danışmanların Görüşleri

Early and timely identification of children having emotional-behavioral disorders and providing mental health services that they are in need of is very important. Schools are establishments through which it is most probable to reach children and provide services or refer them to appropriate services. School psychological counselors have a key role to provide services known as school mental health services. The present study aimed to identify the problems encountered in relation to school mental health services. This study is designed as a qualitative typical case study. A total of 22 school counselors from city of Amasya participated in the study. Data were collected through interview. In order to find out the themes, a coding procedure was utilized. The emerging themes are as follows: “Expectations, duties and responsibilities: We do not know what we are”; “Sources of the problem: It is all due to families”; “A collaborative school mental health services” and “We did not learn it properly: Problems encountered during undergraduate education”. Each theme was construed exclusively and they were also discussed in relation to the roles of school psychological counselors and the provision of school mental health services in educational settings.

Lise Öğrencilerinin Çeşitli Değişkenler Açısından Derse Katılımlarının İncelenmesi

This research aims to probe the ways of which classroom engagement levels of high school students are affected by some variables. It is designed as a descriptive study (Relational Screening Model). The sample of the research was constituted of 705 students attending 9th, 10th and 11th grades in 7 state high schools located at Ankara. Data were conducted through Classroom Engagement Inventory developed by Wang, Bergin and Bergin (2014) and adapted into Turkish by Sever (2014), as well as Attitudes Towards School Scale developed by Alici (2013). Data obtained from the study were analyzed through Kruskal Wallis Test, Mann Whitney U Test, Spearmen Rank Correlation Coefficient, Logistic Regression and Cluster Analysis. Research found out that classroom engagement of girls are higher than boys; there is a significant correlation between school attitudes and classroom engagement at different levels and towards different directions; students tend to engage with Turkish language and literature class while they show lesser tendency towards engaging with math classes; when girls perceive themselves as successful and see school as an important support for their personal development, their classroom engagement level tend to go higher.

Derse Katılım Envanterinin Türk Kültürüne Uyarlanması

The purpose of this study is to adapt Classroom Engagement Inventory, developed by Wang, Bergin and Bergin (2014) into Turkish language. Inventory‘s original language is English and it consists of 24 items in the original form. Appropriateness of the translation with Turkish is checked with the help of 10 qualified experts who have a good command of English and studying in educational sciences fields. In accordance with the experts’ opinions, corrections were made and final form was created. In order to determine the consistency between Turkish and English forms of the inventory, it was administered to 38 students who have a good command of both languages. It was found that correlation values for the language equivalency and consistency between Turkish and English forms oscillates between r=0.969 and 0.699 (p<.05). Inventory, administered to 300 high school students attending 9th, 10th. and 11th., grades in Ankara and 5 factor structure of the original form was tested. It was found that after an item removed from the form, item factor loading values are between 0.561 and 0.781; item-total correlation values are between 0.304 and 0.687; anti-image correlation values are 0.692 and 0.952. The variance explained by these items was %65.326 and Cronbach-Alpha internal consistency coefficient is found 0.930. After exploratory factor analysis, the structure appeared was tested through confirmatory factor analysis by applying to 201 high school students and structure was confirmed by the analysis. (RMSEA, 0,068; AGFI, 0,81; SRMR, 0.096; RMR, 0,062; NNFI, 0.97; CFI, 0.97; NFI, 0.95; IFI, 0.97).