ELEMENTARY TEACHER’S SELF-EFFICACY BELIEFS REGARDING SCIENCE TEACHING LESSON AND OPINIONS
SINIF ÖĞRETMENLERİNİN FEN ÖĞRETİMİ DERSİNE YÖNELİK ÖZ YETERLİLİK İNANÇLARI VE GÖRÜŞLERİ

Author : Aytül GÖKULU -- Gülay KOÇ
Number of pages : 383-396

Abstract

This study was carried out to identify how the level of elementary teachers’ self efficacy beliefs changed in terms of some variables such as branch, gender, seniority and the type of the last graduation of the school. Sample of the study was the 111 elementary teachers who were studying 2015-2016 education semesters in Çanakkale. 72 teachers who were participating to the study were female and 39 were male. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used in the study. While the gathering the data the Scale of “Self-efficacy Belief in Science Teaching” developed by Riggs and Enochs (1990) and studied in terms of validity and reliability by Bıkmaz (2002) was used. The data gathered in this study were evaluated with SPSS 20, percent and frequency values were calculated and analyses of one-way ANOVA, t- tests were applied. Also, it was interviewed with eight elementary teachers in order to make deep investigation. According to the findings of this study, teachers’ perception of self-efficacy does not differentiate in respect to gender, seniority; it differentiates in respect to the type of the last graduation of the school. It was found that elementary teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs and outcome expectation points who were graduate faculty were higher according to teachers who were graduate college and there were significant differences between self efficacies points in favor of teachers who were graduate faculty

Keywords

Self Efficacy Beliefs, Science Education, Elementary Teachers

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