“…The diaries written by participants/students in educational research are called science diary (Ajello, 2000), interactive diary (Andrusyszyn & Davie, 1997), notebook (Baxter, Bass & Glaser, 2001; Ruiz-Primo, Li & Shavelson, 2001), reflective diary (Doyran, 2013;Henter & Indreica, 2014;Khales, 2015), student diary (Özmen, 2010), diary (Connor-Greene, 2000) and process diary (Woll, 2013). Researcher diary is a tool that reflects researcher's thoughts, indecisions, understandings (Galili, 2014), observations, interpretations and feelings (Yildirim & Şimsek, 2013), ensures his/her personal connection with research, and in which the research process is recorded as a source of raw data (Hughes, 1996;Altrichter et al, 1993).…”