Personal Professional Development Efforts of Science and Technology Teachers in their Fields

Year 2018, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 19 - 31, 31.01.2018

Ayşegul Bilgin Mustafa Zafer Balbag

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the personal professional
development efforts of science and technology teachers in their fields with
regard to some variables. These variables were determined as gender, year of
seniority and sufficiency level of the laboratory equipment. Moreover, the
relation between the actual efforts exerted by science and technology teachers
and the ideal level of efforts to be exerted by them for personal professional
development in their fields was examined. In this study, survey model was
applied. Research population was composed of science and technology teachers
working in the central district of Eskişehir, a province in Turkey. Sampling
was not made and it was attempted to get in contact with all 189 teachers
covered in the population. However, data could not be obtained from some
teachers and therefore, sampling of the study consisted of 130 teachers. As a
data collection tool, “Scale of the Personal Professional Development Efforts
of Science and Technology Teachers in their Fields” developed by the
researchers was utilised in the research. In the comparison by gender,
independent samples t–test was utilised while Anova was used in the comparison
by the year of seniority and sufficiency level of the laboratory equipment.
When the results of the research are examined, it is seen that female teachers
use communication skills more effectively than male teachers. Also, as the
senior years of teachers increased, the frequency of using and updating the
technology decreased.

Keywords

Science and technology, Professional development, Teacher, Effort

References

• Bilgin, A. & Balbag, M.Z. (2018). Personal professional development efforts of science and technology teachers in their fields. Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health (JESEH), 4(1), 19-31.