Epistemological Beliefs of Pre-Service Science Teachers
Abstract
The aim of this study was to examine the epistemological beliefs of pre-service science teachers in terms of class level, gender, graduated school, level of mother’s and father’s education. In this study, survey method was used. The study group was formed from 236 pre-service science teachers of the first, second, third and fourth class inFaculty of Education in Mehmet Akif Ersoy University. During the sampling procedure, pre-service science teachers were chosen by stratified-purposeful sampling method. “Scientific Epistemological Beliefs Survey” was used to collect data. It was developed by Pomeroy in 1993 and adopted in Turkish by Deryakulu and Bıkmaz (2003). It includes 30 items of which 22 items are positive and 8 items are negative. The Cronboach’s Alpha internal consistency coefficient of this instrument was calculated as .91. To analysis data descriptive analysis, t-test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Kruskal-Wallis were used and the level of significance was taken as .05. in this study. Results showed that there were significant differences between epistemological beliefs of pre-service science teachers according to class level and there were not any significant differences between epistemological beliefs of pre-service science teachers according to gender, graduated school and level of mother’s and father’s education.
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Primary Language
Turkish
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Authors
Selda Bakır
MEHMET AKİF ERSOY ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Türkiye
Fatma Adak
MİLLİ EĞİTİM BAKANLIĞI
Türkiye
Publication Date
December 1, 2014
Submission Date
October 1, 2014
Acceptance Date
November 1, 2014
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Year 1970 Volume: 3 Number: 4
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