PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS CRITICAL READING SELF-EFFICACY PERCEPTIONS

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The aim of the study is to determine the perceptions of teacher candidates critical reading self-efficacy perception. The study was designed as a descriptive model. The universe of the study consists of first and fourth grade teacher candidates studying at Adnan Menderes University, Faculty of Education Classroom Teaching Department. 175 teacher candidates who were in the universe get involved in the sample. The data was collected by the Self-Efficacy Perception Questionnaire about Critical reading skills which was developed by Kucukoglu (2008). Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data and opinions were explained for each item. According to the research findings, teachers perceptions of self-efficacy for reading were critically low. Teacher candidates reported disagree opinion for the most items about reading in the data collecting instrument. Approximately one third of first-class teacher candidates (32%) stated they love to read again and about one-third (31.1%) stated that they found reading boring. In addition, pre-service teachers purpose of reading newspapers, magazines, novels and literary works is leisure-time / spending time but main purpose of reading text book and research report is learning.

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Critical Reading , Critical Thinking , Self , Efficacy , Primary School Teacher

Mustafa Kemal University Journal Of Graduate School Of Social Sciences

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Mustafa Kemal University Journal Of Graduate School Of Social Sciences