Zafer Unal

Perspectives of Preservice and In-Service Teachers on Their Preparation to Work with Parents in Elementary Classrooms

Abstract This study examines preservice and in-service teachers’ perspectives on their preparation in learning parental involvement strategies and explores their opinions on what kind of experiences regarding parental involvement they think teacher education programs should provide. The data from the study suggested that the preservice teachers held positive opinions on each of the five dimensions of parental involvement and parental involvement in general, and that parental involvement knowledge, skills, and practices are most effective when they occur over an extended period and are integrated into different activities rather than compacting parental involvement into one single course.

A Standardized Rubric for Evaluating Webquest Design: Reliability Analysis of ZUNAL Webquest Design Rubric

Current literature provides many examples of rubrics that are used to evaluate the quality of webquest designs. However, reliability of these rubrics has not yet been researched. This is the first study to fully characterize and assess the reliability of a webquest evaluation rubric. The ZUNAL rubric was created to utilize the strengths of the currently available rubrics and improved based on the comments provided in the literature and feedback received from the educators.