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The aim of this study was investigated the relationship with self esteem between assertiveness levels of sub-elite in-door soccer players. For this aim, 18-28 aged, 86 male and 91 female athletes studying 7 universities which joined in-door soccer championship of Turkish University Sport Federation was participated to study volunteerly.Participants were performed socio-demographic data formi Rathus Assertiveness Schedule and Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory. Data were analyzed by using IBM SPSS (version 20.0). Spearman Correlation parameter calculated in order to comment the relationship with data, Multiple regretion analysis was performed for the predictive power of self-esteem for assertiveness levels of participants. According to analysis, a positive relationship was found between self esteem and assertivenes levels and it was found that self-esteem levels predictived assertiveness levels substantially.As a result of this study, high self-eseteemed athletes could transfer their feelings to others and could increase their assertiveness levels. It was known that highly self-esteemed athletes could increase their performance. Therefore, we could say that necessary studies about athletes' gaining assertiveness behaviors, should take part of primary studies of trainers.

This research is conducted to explore the pre-service teachers’ views of science-technology-society (STS) issues and to investigate the influence of a History of Science (HOS) course on these views. The influence of teaching STS issues through different instructional approaches on the pre-service teachers’ views was also examined. Sample is consisted of 93 pre-service teachers. 11 adapted items of Views of Science-Technology-Society (VOSTS) questionnaire (Aikenhead, Ryan & Fleming, 1989) were administered. Descriptive and inferential statistics (Wilcoxon Sign-Test) were used to examine and compare pre-service teachers’ pre- and post-test responses. Findings revealed that the HOS course and the instructional approach did not have significant influences on the pre-service teachers’ STS views. Key words: science-technology-society, pre-service teachers, history of science, views of science-technology-society questionnaire.

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship with self-esteem between self monitoring levels of sub-elite in-door soccer players.For this aim, 86 male and 91 female athletes at the ages of 18-28 years were participated in this study voluntarily. The participants were studying at 7 different universities that joined the in-door soccer championship of Turkish University Sport Federation.The Socio-demographic data form, Self-monitoring Scale, and Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory were performed by the participants. The data was analyzed by using IBM SPSS (version 20.0). The Spearman Correlation parameter calculated in order to comment the relationship with data, Multiple regretion analysis were performed for the predictive power of self-esteem for self monitoring levels of the participants.According to the analysis, a negative relationship was found among self-esteem, selfmonitoring total score, and extraversion levels. And it was found that self-esteem levels predictived self monitoring levels substantially.It was found that the self-monitoring and extraversion affected self-esteem negatively, it was thought that highly self-esteemed athletes have a tendency to see themselves as superior than the other athletes, ignore the extraneous criticism. No matter what self-esteem levels is that extraversion and acting altitute (attitude) ? has not change. Consequently, self-esteem has reverse relationship with self-monitoring properties since trainers and teachers both is raised self-esteem and is helped self-monitoring themselves.