@article{article_311129, title={Investigation of The Relationship Between High School Teachers’ Individual Innovativeness Perceptions And Their Attitudes Towards Educational Research}, journal={Journal of Education, Theory and Practical Research}, volume={3}, pages={23–37}, year={2017}, author={Akçöltekin, Alptürk}, keywords={High School Teachers,Perceptions of individual innovativeness,Educational research}, abstract={<table class="MsoTableGrid" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="908" style="border: none;"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="652" valign="top" style="width:326.05pt;border-top:solid #00B0F0 1.0pt; border-left:none;border-bottom:solid #F79727 1.0pt;border-right:none; mso-border-top-alt:solid #00B0F0 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid #F79727 .5pt; padding:0cm 0cm 2.85pt 0cm"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align: justify;line-height:normal"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">The purpose of this study is to examine the change in attitudes of high school teachers towards educational research according to their perceptions of individual innovativeness. The sample of the study includes 341 branch teachers who work in the high schools depending on Ardahan and Kars Directorate of National Education in 2015-2016 academic years. As a data collection tool in research, “Individual Innovativeness scale” and “of educational surveys attitude scale” was used. In this descriptive study the standard deviation, arithmetic mean, Pearson product moment correlation and multiple linear regression analysis have been benefited in the analysis of the data. According to the results of the study, risk taking dimension which is one of the individual innovativeness dimensions has been the highest perceived one but the dimension of caring educational surveys has been identified as the one which is perceived at the highest level considered the distribution of the attitudes towards educational surveys. When the results of the regression analysis are examined, it has been seen that Resistance to Change” and “Openness to Experience” dimensions of individual innovativeness and the attitudes of teachers towards educational surveys were predicted positively and significantly. It has been concluded that openness to experience of individual innovativeness dimension is the positive and significant predictor of the dimensions of necessity of educational surveys and ’Valuing Educational Surveys. Also, resistance to change dimension of individual innovativeness is the positive and significant predictor of Applicability of Educational Surveys. </span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> <o:p> </o:p> </span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom: 3.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <o:p>  </o:p> </span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal;tab-stops:253.5pt"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <o:p>  </o:p> </span> </p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>}, number={1}, publisher={Sabri SİDEKLİ} }