مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - Investigation of Pre-Service Teachers’ Epistemological Beliefs

Abstract :

Epistemological beliefs, which are personal features, have effects on learning. They also have effects on information processing, interpreting, comprehending conditions, study strategies, problem solving, efforts and time allocated for learning of individuals. In this study, it has been aimed to determine at what level pre-service teachers’ have epistemological beliefs according to their gender, department, and academic average. Research prepared descriptive was carried out on 367pre-service teachers’. Epistemological beliefs scale was used for collecting the data. So the percentage of data, frequency, mean, standard deviation, independent sample t-test, one way analysis of variance, LSD test and Mann-Whitney U (MWU) test was used for analysis. The analysis results to be due to the efforts of pre-service teachers’ in the learning dimension of faith in terms of epistemological beliefs it has been identified as the belief that the more advanced dimensions. In terms of gender and academic average, it has not been found out a significant difference between the dimensions of epistemological beliefs. In the dimensions of epistemological beliefs, it has been concluded that the boys and the girls are equal, and that the epistemological beliefs of the students with a high grade point have developed at high level. According to department variance, while it has been found that there is a differentiation in the dimensions of beliefs which say that learning is up to effort and ability, it has not been found that there is a kind of differentiation towards the belief dimension which says that there is only one truth. By their academic average, it has been determined that the students of science teaching believe that learning is up to effort, the students of classroom teaching believe that the learning is up to ability and that the belief of the students of pre-school teaching, which says that there is only one truth, is underdeveloped. By taking into consideration these results, it could be ensured that other researches do different studies to improve pre-service teachers’ epistemological beliefs.