Kamil YILDIRIM received his Ph.D. in educational sciences, majoring in educational administration. Yıldırım has experience in different educational settings as a teacher in schools, and an expert in MoNE Board of Education and the Department of International Institutions (OECD, World Bank). He has been working at Aksaray University since 2010. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yıldırım currently serves as the head of the Department of Educational Administration. His research interests include educational quality, teacher education, professional well-being, and educational leadership. Some of his recent studies are as follows.

Yildirim, K., & Aslan, A. (2021). Examination of the quality teaching in Turkish higher education based on the external evaluation reports from multiple perspectives. Journal of Qualitative Research in Education, 25, 102-125, doi: 10.14689/enad.25
Yıldırım K (2021) Analysing the role of external policy interventions in explaining the trend of school educators’ intrinsic motivation. Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research 16(1): 306-327. https://doi.org/10.29329/epasr.2020.334.17
Yıldırım K and Yenipınar Ş (2021) Examining the role of contextual conditions and leadership status of school principals from multiple perspectives. International Journal of Research in Education and Science 7(1): 207-226.

Dr. Melike Günbey is an assistant professor of Educational Administration at Faculty of Education at Giresun University, Türkiye, specializing in higher education administration and graduate education. She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Administration from Ankara University (2022), where her research focused on academic identity construction during doctoral education. Her research interests include higher education, academic identity, inclusive education and early career researchers. In addition to her research, Dr. Günbey teaches undergraduate in introduction to education and inclusive education and master degree courses in higher education administration and qualitative methods. Dr. Günbey is currently conducting her postdoctoral research project titled “A Guide for Early Career Researchers: An Identity Development Program” at Campus Fryslan, University of Groningen. 

He was born in Isparta in 1983. He started undergraduate education in 2001 at music education department of Izmir Dokuz Eylül University Education Faculty. His speciality was vocal training at undergarduate education. He presented individual vocal and piano concerts during undergraduate education. Besides, he got chorister education at Turkish Radio Television Youth Choir of Izmir, Chamber Choir of Izmir Turkish State Opera and Ballet, Chamber Choir of Izmir Art and presented polyphonic choir concerts. He got private vocal education lesssons during the undergraduate education from soloist singers and chorister singers of Izmir Turkish State Opera and Ballet. He graduated with a degree (first place) from undergraduate education. After graduated from undergraduate education he started to work as music teacher at Ministry of National Education in 2006. He enrolled in master education at Music Education Department of Mehmet Akif Ersoy University in Burdur City and graduated from master education in 2011. In the mean time he gave vocal training and choir lessons at the music department of Mehmet Akif Ersoy University. He presented individual piano and vocal concerts during the master education. He worked as choir chief and choir teacher at Youth Central Children Choir of Isparta and Children Choir of Burdur Municipality. He left from Ministry of National Education in 2012. After graduated from master education he started to work as a lecturer at Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University in 2012. He gave vocal training and choir education lessons in that university. He started to doctora-phd education in 2013 and finished it 7th September 2017. He took Dr/Phd title. He sustained to present individual piano and vocal performances concerts as a lecturer Dr/phd. He took his student coaching certificate on july, 2018. His Phd dissertation’s name is “Self Suffıciency Perception Of Music Teachers Teaching Music Students With Special Needs”. During his Phd education, he did research assignments and studies on the music education of students with special needs. He is currently working as Asst. Prof. at Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University State Conservatory in Turkey. He has given music lessons at preschools, primmary schools, high schools and university grades since 2006. His main interest fields are vocal and choir training, music education for students with special needs. He continues to give music education lessons to students with special needs.

I hold a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology specializing in educational measurement and assessment from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Currently, I am a Visiting Faculty and instructor at the University of Alabama. My research interests revolve around Item Response Theory and Rasch model applications in educational and psychological assessment data.

Skills and expertise:

• Educational Measurement
• Computerized Adaptive Testing
• Item Response Theory
• Psychometrics