The debate
on education both in Turkey and in the world continues for many years. Particularly
after the 2000s, the functions of schools, compulsory education, qualified
schools and localization at all levels of government have been discussed
frequently. Practitioners classified secondary education institutions according
to their qualifications; Science high schools, Anatolian high schools, Super
high schools, Curriculum Laboratory Schools (MLO), Social Sciences high schools
and so on. The final form of qualified school trials is the project schools,
which still suffer from qualitative problems in terms of legal and equipment
related to institutionalization. The aim of this study is to determine the
attitudes and competence levels of the teachers in the project schools that are
expected to be qualified for scientific research and to develop suggestions for
the training of qualified school teachers.
A total of 336 project school teachers participated in this descriptive
study which was conducted with the survey model. Descriptive statistics were
used in the analysis of the data obtained in the study, in addition t-test and
variance analysis were used for independent samples in the difference tests. At
the end of the research, it is observed that the attitudes of the teachers
towards scientific researches are not at the expected level, the low level of
attitudes and interest indicate that the competences related to scientific
thinking processes cannot reach the expected level. Although teachers find
themselves highly competent in terms of their scientific research competencies,
current studies show that this level is insufficient. In this study, negative
correlation between teachers' negative attitudes towards scientific research
and scientific research competencies was determined. In addition, a positive
relationship was found between teachers' positive attitudes towards scientific
research and their competences for scientific research.
Primary Language | English |
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Subjects | Studies on Education |
Journal Section | Research Article |
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Publication Date | April 30, 2021 |
Published in Issue | Year 2021 Volume: 10 Issue: 1 |