@article{article_292845, title={Teaching Competency of Summer Qur’ān Courses’ Instructors: The Case of Bolu}, journal={Cumhuriyet İlahiyat Dergisi}, volume={21}, pages={425–464}, year={2017}, DOI={10.18505/cuid.292845}, author={Öz, Ayhan}, keywords={Din Eğitimi,Yaz Kur’an Kursları,Yaz Kur’an Kursu Öğreticileri,Mesleki Yeterlikler,Eğitim Öğretim Yeterlikleri}, abstract={<p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:3pt 0cm;"> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">The
aim of this research is to measure the perceptions of Summer Qur’ān Courses’
instructors performing in different positions about their teaching competency.
The </span> <span lang="en" xml:lang="en">survey technique which is
included in the quantitative screening model was used as a data collection tool
in the research, and the scale prepared to measure the </span> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">teaching competency of Summer Qur’ān Courses’
instructors </span> <span lang="en" xml:lang="en">was applied to 225 instructors
taking an active role in these courses in Bolu. The factor analysis which is
done for construct validity shows that the scale was combined by seven factors,
and the value of KMO is .93. <span>  </span>The general
average of the scale is determined as 3.96, and it refers a high positive
perceptional level about teaching competency. Nevertheless, within factors
especially method-technique and professional development stands out with their
scores (M = 3.39; 3.76) below the scale average, and it means that some
measures should be taken in order to overcome this deficiency in these two
sub-dimensions. The results of the analyses which are performed to examine
differences between groups reveals that gender, age, position, location and
tenure cause statistically significant differences </span> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">at p<.05 significant level </span> <span lang="en" xml:lang="en"> whether on the general average of the scale or <span>  </span>one of the sub-dimensions at least </span> <span lang="en-gb" xml:lang="en-gb">. </span> <span>  </span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:3pt 0cm;"> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">Qur’ān courses
are one of the main institutions which have been serving to respond the needs
of people for religious education, especially for learning how to read the Qur’ān,
through the Republican Period. The origin of these institutions could be gone
back to the era of the Prophet Mohammad, and they could be accepted as a
continuation of previous institutions such as Kuttâb, Dâr el-Qur’ān and Dâr
el-Qurra. They came out with this name in 1925 at the beginning of the
Republican Period. Their number fluctuated until 1950, and after this time they
have increased in number continuously. The Presidency of Religious Affairs
discharges its legal responsibility of informing people about religion mainly
through mosques and Qur’ān courses. Summer Qur’ān courses which host
approximately 1.600.000 students in every summer are important parts of these
educational activities. Imam, muezzin and Qur’ān courses’ instructors are the
main teaching staff of these courses and their teaching competencies should be
evaluated constantly. According to their needs and deficiencies they should be
supported through various inservice trainings, and curriculums in higher
religious education should be reviewed to response their teaching deficiencies.
Some of the importnant purposes of these courses are expressed as follows: to
teach how to read the Qur’ān and its meaning, to improve students’ religious
knowledge and to let them to benefit from religious social and cultural
activities. </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:3pt 0cm;"> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">The aim of this
research to evaluate teaching competencies of summer Qur’ān courses’
instructors. <span>  </span>The success of these
courses is closely related with this point. </span> <span lang="en" xml:lang="en">The quantitative screening model was preferred for this purpose, and
survey technique was utilized to collect datas. The sample of the research
consisted of 225 summer Qur’ān courses instructors performing in different
position such as imam, muezzin and Qur’ān courses instructor in Bolu. A
teaching competencies scale was developed to measure these features. In order
to measure the construct validity of the scale exploratory factor analysis was
performed, and it was seen that the scale was divided into seven sub-dimensions
which each of them represents different aspects of teaching competencies. These
sub-dimensions are communication, counseling, method-technique, evaluation,
professional development, pre-planning for the class, and arrangement of
instruction </span> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">. KMO value of the scale is found as .93, and
the value of reliability is detected as .95. These values indicate that, this
scale has high reliability and useful to scale what it wants to measure. The
total variance explained by the scale is 64.41%. Data analysis was based on a
.05 significance level. </span> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> </span> <span lang="en" xml:lang="en"> </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:3pt 0cm;"> <span lang="en" xml:lang="en">The ave}, number={1}, publisher={Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi}