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Biology Teaching Self-Efficacy Beliefs of the Teacher Candidates
Author(s) -
Cem Gerçek
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
ankara universitesi egitim bilimleri fakultesi dergisi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2458-8342
pISSN - 1301-3718
DOI - 10.1501/egifak_0000000124
Subject(s) - self efficacy , mathematics education , scale (ratio) , significant difference , psychology , biology , medical education , mathematics , statistics , social psychology , medicine , physics , quantum mechanics
The main aim of this study is to determine the level of biology teaching self-efficacy beliefs of the teacher candidates. " The Scale of Self-Efficacy in Science Teaching" which was developed by Enochs and Riggs in 1990 and adapted to the Turkey's conditions by Bõkmaz in 2002 was used. Working group consists of 159 teacher candidates from the Division of Biology Education in Hacettepe University Faculty of Education in 2003-2004 academic year. The analysis of the data was conducted with t, ANOVA and overage. In the study, the self-efficacy belief of biology teacher candidates was determined to be high (X=3.75). There was a huge difference in the level of belief self- efficacy of teacher candidates between different classes and by reason of job choose.

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