@article{article_942687, title={Examination of the Relationships among Prospective Teachers’ Academic Procrastination, Cheating Attitude, Academic Self-Efficacy and Academic Locus of Control}, journal={Uluslararası Güncel Eğitim Araştırmaları Dergisi}, volume={7}, pages={126–135}, year={2021}, author={Saracaloğlu, Asuman Seda and Altın, Mehmet and Eken, Muhammed}, keywords={Öğretmen adayı, akademik erteleme, akademik öz-yeterlik, kopya çekme tutumu, akademik kontrol odağı}, abstract={Teacher education is considered in terms of teacher characteristics since its emergence. It examines the characteristics of teachers and prospective teachers in many countries. Aim of the study is to examine the relationship between academic locus of control (ALC), academic procrastination (AP), academic self-efficacy (ASE) and cheating attitude (CA) of prospective teachers as future teachers. This descriptive research is in the correlational survey model. The study group includes 357 students attending to pedagogical formation education at Aydın Adnan Menderes University in 2017-2018 academic year. The participants were either undergraduate or graduate students from different departments. The researchers applied scales of AP, ALC, CA and ASE in order to get data. Correlation and regression were applied for determining the relationships among prospective teachers’ AP, CA, ASE and ALC. The conclusions of the study was that there was a significant and positive relationship between the AP scores of the prospective teachers and their academic control scores. Also, as the ASE of prospective teachers increased, their perception of school success and their general academic averages also increased significantly; It was concluded that ASE was a significant predictor of school achievement perception and general academic average. From the conclusions of study, it may be recommended that experimental researches to increase the level of the academic self-efficacy of prospective teachers in order to advance their school success. Same study can be realized with teachers, and same scales can be implemented to them. Then, the results of the study can be compared with the results of the present study.}, number={1}, publisher={Uluslararası Bilim Kültür ve Spor Derneği (UBİKS)}