The aim of this research is to determine the levels of self – efficacy beliefs of the social studies teachers in teaching economy subjects and to analyse them in terms of different variables. This research was realised with the scanning model and its sample consisted of 316 social studies teachers working in Antalya in 2013 – 2014 educational years. In the research Melinda Odam Staub's scale ‘Economics Teaching Efficacy Belief Instrument’ (ETEBI) (2007) was used and applied to the social studies teachers by bein taken necessary permissions and done the scale adaptation works. The study of reliability and validity of The Economy Self - Efficacy Scale for the Social Studies Teachers, consisting of 23 items, was realized and the reliability value of the scale was found to be .74.The data achieved from Teacher The Economy Self - Efficacy Scale for the Social Studies Teachers was analysed with SPSS 21.0. According to the results of the research, it was found out that the levels of self – efficacy of the social studies teachers in teaching economy subjects were lower, and that gender, level of education and job duration didn’t show any differences in the self – efficacy belief. However, it was seen that the teachers having graduated from the faculties of education, those teaching subjects with field trips and those having a habit of reading newspaper or magazines had higher levels of self - efficacy. According to the results of the research, several suggestions were made to increase the self – efficacy beliefs of the social studies teachers.
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Publication Date | April 30, 2015 |
Submission Date | March 31, 2015 |
Acceptance Date | April 19, 2015 |
Published in Issue | Year 2015 Volume: 2015 Issue: 4 |