THE EFFECT OF AUTHENTIC LEARNING ON PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ ATTITUDE AND SATISFACTION TOWARDS SERVICE LEARNING

The main aim of this research is to determine the effect of authentic learning on pre-service teachers’ attitude and satisfaction of the service learning course. The study was planned and completed according to pre test and post test with control group experimental design. The study was carried out on 70 pre-service teachers from elementary teaching division at elementary education department. In this design there are two groups, namely control and experimental groups, which are assigned randomly. The pre-service teachers in the control group are provided with traditional learning activities while the pre-service teachers in experimental group areprovided with authentic learning activities. The experimental procedure took for twelve weeks.As a result of the research, it was found out that pre-service teachers’ of experiment groupattitude and satisfaction towards service learning course was higher than control group.