EXAMINATION OF BASIC VALUES AND ACADEMIC DISHONESTY TENDENCIES OF PRE-SERVICE ELEMENTARY TEACHERS

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This research that aims to investigate pre-service elementary teachers’ basic values and their academic dishonesty tendencies and to determine the correlation between these variables, is based on the correlative investigation model, a descriptive research design. The study conducted with 892 pre- service elementary teachers’, “The Portrait Values Questionnaire (Schwartz et al., 2012) which adopted in Turkish language by Demirutku and Tekinay (2016) and The Academic Dishonesty Tendency Scale developed by Eminoğlu (2008) were used as data collection tools. T-test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation coefficients were used in the analysis of the research data. According to the results of the research, it is observed that pre-service elementary teachers attach importance to security- societal, benevolence-dependability and universalism-concern values and the least to power- resources and power-dominance values and pre-service elementary teachers tend to have a partial academic dishonesty tendency. It has been determined that the academic dishonesty tendency and values differs according to pre-service elementary teachers’ gender and grade level. It has been found that there is a positive and significant correlation between the pre-service elementary teachers’ some of basic values and the academic dishonesty tendencies, and there is a negative and meaningful correlation between some of their basic values and the academic dishonesty tendencies.

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Basic Values , Academic Dishonesty Tendency , Pre , service Elementary Teacher

Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi

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Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi