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Examination of Epistemological Beliefs of Pre-Service Primary Class Teachers in terms of Some Variables and Attitudes toward Science
Abstract
Today the changing needs necessitates some changes in education systems. When the 21st century skills are analyzed, the students are expected to graduate with many skills such as knowledge generation, problem solving, critical thinking, effective use of technology and creativity. Particularly the beliefs about definition, construction, evaluation, position and formation of the knowledge are becoming more and more influential. The individuals’ beliefs about the nature of knowledge are called epistemological beliefs. The aim of this study is to describe the epistemological beliefs of pre-service primary teachers and to analyze them according to some variables attitude towards the science lesson, gender, class level etc. thought to be influential on these beliefs. Survey, one of the quantitative research methods, was be used and the epistemological beliefs of pre-service teachers were be described. The sample of the research was composed of 188 pre-service class teachers who were studying at Department of Primary School Education and were randomly selected. The Epistemological Beliefs Scale developed by Deryakulu and Büyüköztürk 2002 , the Attitude Scale towards Science Course developed by Taşdemir 2008 and the personal information form developed by the researchers were used to obtain the data. The results showed that while the epistemolgy belief which learning depends on the effort of pre-service primary class teachers were novice level, belief that only one thing is true and learning depends on talent were less developed. Another result of the study was that the epistemological beliefs of the pre-service primary class teachers showed a significant difference according to the gender characteristics and class levels. Also, there was a positively meaningful relationship between the epistemological beliefs of the pre-service primary class teachers and the attitudes towards science
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1 Şubat 2017
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Yıl 2017 Cilt: 1 Sayı: 1
