INVESTIGATION OF PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ TEACHING EFFICACY BELIEFS: A MULTI-VARIANCE ANALYSIS

Abstract

Teaching efficacy beliefs influence how teachers think about teaching, how they motivate themselves, and how they behave in their classrooms. Science teaching efficacy belief has two dimensions: personal science teaching efficacy and science teaching outcome expectancy beliefs. In this context, it is aimed to examine preservice science teachers' personal science teaching efficacy beliefs and outcome expectancy beliefs. The cross-sectional survey model, one of the descriptive research designs, was used in the present study. The participants were randomly selected from preservice teachers studying at education faculties in the central Anatolian region and who had taken at least one science course during their undergraduate education. Personal information form and science teaching efficacy belief scale were used to obtain the data. The effects of independent variables (department, gender, and grade level) on preservice teachers' personal science teaching efficacy and science teaching outcome expectancy beliefs were examined individually and together, employing a two-way MANOVA test. The teachers' personal science teaching efficacy and science teaching outcome expectancy beliefs differed based on their department. Regarding the grade levels, preservice teachers' outcome expectancy beliefs differed in favor of the senior preservice teachers. However, there were no significant differences in personal science teaching efficacy beliefs. The number of courses related to natural sciences and science teaching should be increased to support preservice teachers' science teaching efficacy beliefs. A greater emphasis on the amount of content knowledge and professional experience in teacher education programs might improve the quality of science education.

Keywords

• Preservice teacher
• science teaching
• efficacy
• belief.

ÖĞRETMEN ADAYLARININ ÖĞRETİM YETERLİK İNANÇLARININ İNCELENMESİ: ÇOK DEĞİŞKENLİ VARYANS ANALİZİ

Öz

Öğretim yeterliği, öğretmenlerin öğretim hakkında ne düşündüklerini, kendilerini nasıl motive ettiklerini ve sınıfta nasıl davrandıklarını etkiler. Fen öğretimi bağlamında yeterlik inancının iki boyutu vardır: kişisel fen öğretimi özyeterliği ve fen öğretimi sonuç beklentisidir. Bu çerçevede öğretmen adaylarının fen öğretimi öz yeterliği ve sonuç beklentisi inançlarının incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Araştırmada betimsel araştırma desenlerinden kesitsel tarama modeli kullanılmıştır. Araştırma örneklemi Orta Anadolu bölgesinde öğrenim görmekte olan ve lisans dönemi boyunca en az bir defa fen bilimleri dersi almış öğretmen adayları arasından rastgele seçilmiştir. Verilerin elde edilmesinde kişisel bilgi formu ve fen öğretimi yeterlik inanç ölçeği kullanılmıştır. Öğretmen adaylarının fen öğretimi öz yeterlik ve fen öğretimi sonuç beklentisi inançları üzerinde bağımsız değişkenlerin (öğrenim görülen bölüm, cinsiyet ve sınıf düzeyi) etkisi ayrı ayrı ve birlikte çift yönlü MANOVA testi ile incelenmiştir. Öğretmen adaylarının fen öğretimi öz yeterlik ve fen öğretimi sonuç beklentisi inançları öğrenim gördükleri bölüme göre farklılaşmaktadır. Sınıf düzeylerine göre öğretmen adaylarının fen öğretiminde sonuç beklentilerinde son sınıf öğretmen adayları lehine farklılık göstermiştir. Fakat fen öğretimi özyeterlik inançlarında farklılık görülmemiştir. Öğretmen adaylarının fen öğretimi yeterlik inançlarının desteklenmesi için fen ve öğretimine yönelik derslerin sayısı arttırılabilir. Öğretmen eğitim programlarında önemli miktarda alan bilgisi ile mesleki deneyimlerine daha fazla vurgu yapılması fen eğitiminin kalitesini arttırabilir. 

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Öğretmen adayları
• fen öğretimi
• yeterlik
• inanç.

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