TEACHER CANDIDATES' INFORMATION LITERACY SELF-EFFICACY

Abstract

The aim of this study is to reveal the relation between the teacher candidates’ social demographic characteristics and their information literacy self-efficacy. The research was conducted among teacher candidates in North Cyprus. The sample consists of 142 [49.30% (n=70) female, and 50.70% (n=72) male] teacher candidates who were selected according to convenience sampling in Faculty of Education at Cyprus International University. In this study, the “Information Literacy Self-Efficacy” scale developed by Kurbanoğlu, Akkoyunlu and Umay (2006) with a Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient of .91 was used in data analysis. Considering the purposes of the study percentage documentation average, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe test and Levene’s test were figured out in data analysis. The statistical significance level was accepted as .05 in the study

Keywords

• Information Literacy, Self-Efficacy, Teacher Candidate, Teacher Education

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