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Editorial

BehcetÖznacar and GökmenDagli • Evaluation of Risks for School Directors in Education in Developed / Developing Countries

F. SülenSahinKiralp and AsumanBolkan • Relationship between Candidate Teacher’s Attitude towards Teaching Profession and Their Life Satisfaction Levels

BahadirGülbahar • Views of the Teachers on the Behaviors and the Personal Characteristics of the School Principal Which are Effective in Formation of a Democratic School Environment

NecdetOsam and GulsunKorun • A Prototype Study Evaluating the Linguistic Proficiency of Year 1 ELTE Students at Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus

HakanKarahasan • Metaphysics of Language and its Relationship with Communication Models

Mehmet Çaglar and Osman Akçin •The Application of Information Technologies in Education

Maria Reyes González, Jose Gasco and Juan Llopis • Facebook and Academic Performance: A Positive Outcome

Mutlu Kale and HüseyinYaratan • Developing a Scale for Assessing the Required Type of Intelligence Scale for Different Areas of Study

ÖzdemNurluöz • A Research on the Levels of Social Anxiety, Self-Esteem and Loneliness Among University Students: An Application at Northern Cyprus

Remzi Can • The Relationship between Readers’ Comprehension Skills and Awareness of Cohesive Relationships

Mehmet Çaglar and TogayUluo • The Difference between Secondary Education Students Playing Sports and the Academic Success Motivation

SibelDinçyürek • Possibility of E-instructional Design and Development of a Distance Education Context in Vocational Consultancy

MertBastas • Development of the Teacher’s Burnout Scale

CemBirol, Mehmet Çaglar and HakanKuntay • Similarities, Differences and Common Future between Cultures in North Cyprus

Alexander Sorokin and Sakharova Elena • Dalton-Plan in the Context of Reforms of the Training Process in Soviet Higher Education in 1920-1930s

BehiyeAkacan and GürcanSeçim • Evaluation of Effectiveness of Group Counselling Program Based on Eclectic Approach to Reduce the Social Anxiety of Candidate Teachers “Qualitative Data Analysis”

SerifeGündüz, EmineKocadal and AyferBükük • Perception of Environmental Awareness by Administrators and Teachers in Secondary Schools in North Cyprus: The Case of Guzelyurt

CemBirol • Development of the Parent Protection Scale

Vlademir N. Fateev and Irina Fateeva • Teaching Russian Children to be Safe When Using Social Networks

BehcetÖznacar and GökmenDagli • The Impact of Mass Media Tools on Students at the High School Level

Mehmet Çaglar and ÇigdemDürüst • Social and Personal Life of LGBTQ Individuals

AlevMuezzinoglu • The Impact of Music Instrument Grades on Cumulative Grade Point Averages at Graduation: A Times Series Empirical Approach

OguzSerin, NergüzBulutSerin and GizemSaygili • The Conflicts that Exceptionally Gifted Students Encounter and Their Opinions, Observations and Experiences Regarding the Solutions of These Conflicts

NergüzBulutSerin • The Relationship Between Attachment Styles and Parental Attitudes in High School Students

SerkanIlseven, NazimKasot and FatmaGülcanIlseven • Opinions of Education Administrators and Teachers on Vegetation Geography: Comparative Case Study

UmutAkcil, ZehraAltinay and FahriyeAltinay • Assessing the Effects of Managers in the Digital Age on the Management Process of Digital Citizenship Roles

Wei Wang • A Tentative Research Mode of Comparability Study in Language Testing and Its Application

Hu Xia, Zhang Yan and an Bowen • The Mechanism and Influencing Factors of Herding Effect of College Students’ Network Public Opinion

Jianjun Wang and Li Li • Research on the College Graduate Employment Education Based on Data Mining Technology

YavuzTopkaya • The Effect of Teaching Practice Lessons on Social Studies Teachers’ Self-efficacy Perceptions

BulentAlci • Medical Faculty Students’ Academic Motivation Types: A Comparison with Respect to Various Variables

HasanHuseyinKilinc • Teachers’ Perception of 2nd Grade English Curriculum of Primary School in Turkey

ÖzgürUlubey and MurtazaAykaç • Effects of Human Rights Education using the Creative Drama Method on the Attitudes of Pre-service Teachers

SuleymanDogan •The Analysis of Classroom Teachers’ Application Frequency of Twelve Communication Barriers

ZehraTaspinarSener, HasanUnal and Hasan Aydin • Using Metaphors to Investigate Preservice Secondary Mathematics Teachers’ Perceptions of Mathematics and Mathematics Teacher Concepts