TY  - JOUR
T1  - A Study of Curriculum Literacy and Information Literacy Levels of Teacher Candidates in Department of Social Sciences Education
AU  - Sural, Serhat
AU  - Dedebali, Nurhak Cem
PY  - 2018
DA  - April
DO  - 10.12973/eu-jer.7.2.303
JF  - European Journal of Educational Research
JO  - eujer
PB  - Eurasian Society of Educational Research
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2165-8714
SP  - 303
EP  - 317
VL  - 7
IS  - 2
LA  - en
AB  - The present study aims to investigateinformation literacy and curriculum literacy levels of teacher candidates andto identify the relationship between them through their course of study atFaculty of Education. The research model was designed as quantitative one andgeneral screening model was employed. The study group is 895 students, who werereached out of teacher candidates, attending the third and fourth grade in theClassroom Education, Preschool Education, Science Education and Social SciencesEducation Departments of Pamukkale University and Sinop University in the2017-2018 academic year. To achieve the goal of this research study,“Information Literacy Scale” and “Curriculum Literacy Scale” were used. Inlight of results obtained from the study, it is observable that there aremeaningful differences between information literacy and curriculum literacy ofteacher candidates in terms of the variables identified. Further, the mean ofitems measuring teacher candidates’ levels of information and curriculumliteracy were examined and their levels of “frequency” and “agree” weredetermined. Ultimately, correlation analysis was performed between informationliteracy and curriculum literacy and positive relationship was determined atthe low, medium and high levels. Also, predictive power of the level ofinformation literacy on the level of curriculum literacy was tested. Aforesaidthese four variables together explain 34% of the change in curriculum literacylevels.
KW  - Information literacy
KW  - curriculum literacy
KW  - teacher candidate
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.12973/eu-jer.7.2.303
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/453180
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