An Assessment on Self-Efficacy of Candidate Turkish and Primary School Teachers for Teaching Profession
Abstract
Problem
Statement: Self-efficacy is
not a passive characteristic or determiner of the self-system, but a dynamic
aspect of the other factors that make up the self-system such as the capacity
to do work, the success one experiences in that work, motives and
self-regulation mechanisms. The self-efficacy perception level of the
undergraduate students who study at the Turkish and Primary School Teaching
Department changes when they are examined in accordance with the different
variations?
Purpose: In the research, it was aimed to specify the self-efficacy perception of the candidate
Turkish and primary school teachers.
Method: The study is screening
model. The data of this study was obtained through “Self-Efficacy Scale”
developed by Ülper and Bağcı (2012). The data obtained in this study was analysed using SPSS (Statistical
Package for Social Sciences) for Windows 21.0 program. In comparing the
quantitative data t-test was used to define the differences between two groups.
One-Way ANOVA test was used to compare the parameters among the groups when the
number of the group was more than two. The Scheffe test was used to identify
the group causing the difference.
Findings and Results: The “teaching knowledge”,
“specific field knowledge”, “general field knowledge” and “teaching
implementations” level of the students, who participated in this study, is
fair. Their “measurement implementations” are high. It is found that their “general self-efficacy” level
is fair. Among the 400 student who participated in this study, the measurement
implementation scores of the students at the grade 3 were found to be higher
than those of the students at the grade 2. The measurement implementation
scores of the students at the grade 4 were found to be higher than those of the
students at the grade 2.
Conclusions and
Recommendations: According to
the findings of this study the self-efficacy perception of the candidate
teachers is at the “fair” level. The self-efficacy perception of the candidates
is not different from each other in terms of gender and grade level. The
self-efficacy perception is different in according to the department they
study. It is observed that some of our findings overlap with the findings
obtained in the literature while some of them set totally opposite results
forth. This may result from structural and contextual features of the
measurement tools as well as the personal traits of the candidate teachers
participated in this study.
Keywords
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Publication Date
October 15, 2016
Submission Date
October 15, 2016
Acceptance Date
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Published in Issue
Year 2016 Volume: 16 Number: 65