GÜR ERDOĞAN, Duygu Sakarya Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi, Turkey , ZAFER GÜNEŞ, Demet Sakarya Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi, Turkey

The Attitudes of the First Grade Students’ Towards Teaching Profession at Education Faculty of Sakarya University

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The aim of this study is to identify the attitudes of first year students towards teaching profession of Teacher Department of Sakarya University Education Faculty and to examine their attitudes towards teaching profession with respect to certain variables. The subject of this study was the first year students of Teacher Department of Sakarya University Education Faculty in 2008-2009 academic year. During the study, the data were collected through “Attitudes Towards Teaching Profession Inventory” developed by Çetin (2006). For the analysis of the data SPSS for Windows program was used and the mean scores of each item in the scale was calculated t-test and Anova was used by the researchers. The analysis of the data indicated that the attitudes of studemts towards teaching profession was positive, with respect to their gender, a significant difference was found in favour of female students, with respect to the department, significant difference was found between the students.

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Teaching profession , Attitudes towards teaching profession.

Journal Of Uludag University Faculty Of Education

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