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- Title
Examination of Attitudes towards Profession and Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Pedagogical Formation Students.
- Authors
ÖZDEMİR, Murat; DEMİRCİOĞLU, Ebru
- Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between attitudes towards the teaching proficiency and self-efficacy beliefs of the pedagogical formation students. For this purpose 508 pedagogic formation students from Çankırı Karatekin University and Hacettepe University participated in the study. Participants filled in the “Scale for Proficiency Self-Efficacy Beliefs” and “Scale for Attitudes toward Teaching Profession”. Both of the scales were checked for validity and reliability. To investigate if the scales were valid, confirmatory factor analysing was used and both scales were found to be valid. In order to see whether the scales were reliable, Cronbach’s alpha coefficients were calculated and both scales were reliable. The data collected from the participants were firstly analysed with descriptive statistical techniques including arithmetical means, standard deviations and the value of percentage. As for the relationship between attitudes towards teaching profession and self-efficacy beliefs, Pearson correlation coefficient was used. To examine if self–efficacy beliefs are a significant predictor of attitudes towards the teaching profession, multiple regression analyses were conducted. Results showed that participants’ opinions about their attitudes towards the teaching profession were positive. Besides, it was seen that participants’ self-efficacy beliefs about their profession was relatively high. Correlation analyses indicated that there was a significant, positive but weak relationship between the participants’ professional self-efficacy beliefs and their attitudes towards the teaching profession. Regression results revealed that professional self-efficacy beliefs were a significant predictor of attitudes towards the teaching profession. However, it was observed that the level of professional self-efficacy beliefs accounted for only some of the variance in attitudes towards the profession.
- Subjects
STUDENT attitudes; TEACHING &; society; SELF-efficacy; CONFIRMATORY factor analysis; REGRESSION analysis
- Publication
Journal of Higher Education & Science / Yüksekögretim ve Bilim Dergisi, 2016, Vol 6, Issue 3, p326
- ISSN
2146-5959
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5961/jhes.2016.169