This study aims to determine the knowledge level of class teacher candidates on geometrical objects, to analyze their problem solving skills and attitudes in regard to geometrical objects, and, as well ,to identify the relationship between these variables. This study is included inanon-empirical studies group. The participants of the study consist of 250 teacher candidates. The Knowledge Level Test in Regard to Geometrical Objects, Geometrical Object Problem Solving Test, and Attitude Scale towards Geometrical Objects, which were developed by the researchers, have been used in the study as data collection tools. In the analyses of the data, Descriptive Statistics and Correlation Analysis have been used. The study concludes that that the class teacher candidates have a medium-level attitude. Furthermore, it is found that they have lowlevel geometrical object knowledge and problem solving skills. Besides, the fact that the level of knowledge is influential in problem solving and that the attitude is influential in increasing the level of knowledge are also among the findings of the study. Moreover, this study explores significant correlational relationships between the knowledge level on geometrical objects and the attitudes and between the knowledge level for geometrical objects and the problem solving level.

Bu çalışmanın amacı sınıf öğretmeni adaylarının üstün yetenekli birey ve özel eğitime ilişkin algılarının metaforlar yoluyla incelenmesidir. Çalışma 2015-2016 eğitim-öğretim yılında Marmara bölgesinde bulunan bir devlet üniversitesinde yürütülmüştür. Katılımcılar sınıf eğitimi anabilim dalında öğrenim gören 3. ve 4. sınıf düzeyindeki 102 öğretmen adayıdır. Nitel araştırma yöntemi ve fenomonolojik model kullanılmıştır. Elde edilen verilerin analizi sonucunda öğretmen adaylarının üstün yetenekli birey kavramıyla ilgili toplam 86 tane anlamlı metafor oluşturduğu belirlenmiş ve bu metaforlar 8 kategori altında toplanmıştır. Belirlenen kategoriler "Uygun Eğitimle Faydalı Olacak Birey, Farklı ve Özel İlgi Gerektiren Birey, Keşfedilmesi Gereken Değer, Değerli Birey, Zeki Birey, Çok ve Çeşitli Bilgiye Sahip Birey, Performansı Akranlarından Yüksek Birey ve Rehberliğe İhtiyaç Duyan Birey" şeklindedir. Özel eğitim kavramı için ise 102 öğretmen adayı 82 tane anlamlı metafor oluşturmuş ve bu metaforlar 4 kategoride değerlendirilmiştir. Özel eğitim kavramına ilişkin oluşturulan kategoriler "Emek ve İlgi Gerektiren Zorlukta, Kişiye Özgü, Rehberlik Gerektiren ve Hayati" şeklindedir. Araştırmada öğretmen adaylarının üstün yetenekli birey özelliklerinin bir kısmına dair fikirlerinin olduğu ve bu bireylerin eğitim öğretim ihtiyaçlarının farkındalığına dair metaforlar oluşturdukları belirlenmiştir. Özel eğitim kavramına ilişkin metaforlarda ise öğretmen adaylarının özel eğitimin önemi, zorluğu ve nasıl olması gerektiğiyle ilgili görüş bildirdikleri belirlenmiştir. Ayrıca, adaylar özel eğitimin gerekliliğini vurgulamış, nitelikli özel eğitimin ancak profesyonel eğiticilerle olacağını düşündüklerini belirtmişlerdir.

The goal of this study is to examine the mathematics learning approaches and metacognitive awareness of 6th, 7th and 8th grade students with regard to some variables. This is a quantitative study conducted in a survey model. In the 2018-2019 academic year, the working group was secondary school students in the public schools in Central Anatolia region 6.7.8. It consists of 330 (166 girls, 164 boys) students studying at the grade level. As the data collection tools, Göktepe-Yıldız and Özdemir's ( 2018) "Mathematics Learning Approach Scale", which was originally developed by Schraw and Dennison (1994); The Metacognitional Awareness Inventory developed by Akın, Abacı and Çetin ( 2007) was utilized. According to the empirical findings, for sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students, scores for deep and strategic learning approaches are above the medium level, whereas scores for surface approach is below the medium level. In addition, it has been determined that mathematics learning approaches differ significantly according to gender, grade level and mathematics achievement. As a consequence of the analysis, it was seen that students' levels of metacognitive awareness were high. The levels of metacognitive awareness did not differ by gender, but differed significantly by grade level and mathematics achievement. In addition, while there exists a positive and statistically significant relationship between deep learning and strategic learning approaches and metacognitive awareness no statistically significant relationship was found between the surface learning approach and the metacognitive awareness.

In this study, it was aimed to investigate the mathematics learning approaches of gifted students and successful students who were not diagnosed as gifted in terms of variables of giftedness, gender, grade level, parents' profession and education level. Descriptive research model, which is one of the general survey models, was used in the study. For the 2018-2019 academic years, a total of 239 6th, 7th and 8th grade students, 84 of whom were gifted students and 155 of whom were non-gifted students, participated into the study. Data on gifted students were collected from the Science and Arts Center of a province in the Central Anatolia region, while data on non-gifted students were collected from a secondary school in the same province. Students' mathematics learning approaches were determined by using the "Scale of Mathematics Learning Approaches". When the findings were examined, a significant differentiation was observed in favor of gifted students in the in-depth learning approach between gifted and non-gifted students. In addition, there is a significant difference in favor of female students in in-depth and strategic learning sub-dimensions among gifted students. When the mathematics learning approaches of gifted and non-gifted students were compared according to grade level, no significant difference was found in the 8th grade level average scores.