PEKTAŞ, Murat Kastamonu Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi - İlköğretim Bölümü, Turkey , KAMER, S. Tunay Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi - İlköğretim Bölümü, Turkey

THE ATTITUDES OF SCIENCE TEACHER TRAINEES FORTEACHING PROFESSION

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In this study, the science teacher trainees’ attitudes towards teaching profession wereinvestigated in terms of variables as gender, graduated high school type, university, gradelevel and parents’ education level. Total of 382 which consisted of 242 female and 140 maleteacher trainees from the department of science teaching in the Universities of Gazi, AhiEvran and Kastamonu attended in this survey study which was conducted in the 2008-2009academic year. In the study, attitudes towards teaching profession scale developed by Akkuzuand Akçay (2008) and which has Cronbach Alpha reliability of α = 0.965 has been used.According to the research findings, it can be said that the female trainees have more positiveattitudes towards teaching profession compared to the male trainees. The Anatolian Teacherhigh school graduates’ mean scores for the attitude scale were the highest. Furthermore, ithas been seen that the teacher trainees whose parents are university graduates and the fourthyear (senior) teacher trainees’ attitudes changed negatively.

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Science teacher trainees , attitude toward teaching profession , attitudes scale

Journal Of Turkish Educational Sciences

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