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Dear IEJEE Reader, 

We are excited by presenting you a new issue of International Electronic Journal of 
Elementary Education (IEJEE). On behalf of our editorial board, as an Editor-in-Chief, I 
would like to share a message I received from one of our researchers who published a 
paper in IEJEE. His paper was downloaded by 64 persons within a week. We also noticed 
that IEJEE is reaching more and more researchers, teachers, students and policy makers, 
particularly after being indexed in ERIC - Education Resources Information Center, USA. 

As its previous issues, this issue of IEJEE also includes papers addressing several 
important topics. 

ERSOY & BOZKURT addresses the changes, challenges and opportunities that the new 
technologies represent for elementary school teachers in their work. The authors use the 
metaphor of journey from sand table to interactive whiteboard for the changes that 
elementary teachers are going through in our time.  

NURLU addresses the importance and the consequences of the teachers’ self-efficacy in 
mathematics teaching. Her findings suggest that teachers with high self-efficacy 
demonstrate higher level of effort and persistence with students, are more open to new 
ideas and new methods. They believe in students’ achievements and take responsibility for 
students’ success. These teachers use to place more importance on building a warm 
relationship with their students rather than with the parents. 

BEDİR investigated perception of teaching efficacy by primary and secondary school 
teachers. She found significant differences among teachers’ perception concerning 
teaching efficacy across different variables such as the faculty they graduated, gender, 
course match, in-service training, branch, and seniority. An interesting finding seems to be 
the high level of self-efficacy among teachers with regard to class management and low 
level of self-efficacy with regard to choosing instructional methods/strategies.  

ÖZYÜREK & AYDIN investigated the impact of computer-animated concept cartoons and 
outdoor science activities on creating awareness among seventh graders about light 
pollution. The findings show that both strategies can be effective in creating awareness 
about light pollution.  

ÇAKIR investigated the instructional materials commonly employed by foreign language 
teachers at elementary schools. On the basis of his study ÇAKIR argue for utilization of 
variety of instructional materials to motivate learners. At the same time he wish to see 
instructional materials that can help teachers to create an interactive foreign language 
teaching atmosphere. 

ÖZERK & ÖZERK has conducted a single-case study with a bilingual student with Autism 
Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The aim was to teach the student social-communications skills 
through Video Modeling. Their study reveals that children with ASD can learn desirable 
behavioral skills as by-products. Video Modeling can also contribute positively to the 
social inclusion of bilingual children with ASD in school settings.  

DAĞDELEN & KÖSTERELİOĞLU investigated the effect of conceptual change texts in 
overcoming misconceptions in “people and management” unit of a Social Studies Course. 
Their quasi-experiment study reveals that using conceptual change texts can be a helpful 

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strategy for prevent and overcoming misconceptions related to several topics in social 
studies.  

ÖZSOY, KURUYER & ÇAKIROĞLU looked at the relationship between a small group of 
students’ mathematical problem solving skills in relation to their reading levels. The 
researchers utilized several methodological approaches. Their findings show that there is 
a close relationship between the students’ problem solving skills and their reading skills. 

LUO presents a case study examining 3rd, 4th and 5th graders’ design fixation and 
cooperative learning in an engineering design project. A mixed methods instrument, the 
Cooperative Learning Observation Protocol (CLOP), was adapted to record frequency and 
class observation on cooperative learning engagement through detailed field notes. She 
identifies three major themes for design fixation and the challenges the students 
encountered in cooperative learning process. 

GRAHAM, GRAHAM & WEST take up an important issue: Vocabulary development. They 
designed a study to demonstrate the effect of implementing multi-component vocabulary 
strategy instruction in fourth grade social studies. Their study will without any doubt be 
an important contribution to our knowledge base with regard to teaching strategies for 
vocabulary development.  

KAŠPAROVÁ addresses the legal and principal aspects of home education. On the basis of a 
longitudinal ethnographic study, she discusses how the homeschoolers combat the 
structural discrimination embodied in their lawful protection in the Czech Republic. Her 
main argument is the importance of the right of homeschoolers to be included. In her 
analytical discussions, she includes Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical perspectives regarding 
various forms of capital. 

I would like to thank all of the authors, peer reviewers and IEJEE’s staff for their 
contributions. 

 

Dr. Turan Temur 
Editor-In-Chief