Open AccessInvestigation of Prospective Teachers’ Beliefs Towards Authentic Assessment
Author(s) -
İsmail Kınay
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
world journal of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1925-0754
pISSN - 1925-0746
DOI - 10.5430/wje.v8n1p75
Subject(s) - psychology , data collection , scale (ratio) , test (biology) , sample (material) , social psychology , statistics , mathematics , paleontology , physics , chemistry , chromatography , quantum mechanics , biology
The aim of this study is to examine the prospective teachers’ beliefs toward authentic assessment in relation tovarious variables. The survey method has been used in this study and the sample of the study is comprised of 612prospective teachers 368 (60.1%) of whom are female and 244 (39.9%) of whom are male. The "AuthenticAssessment Belief Scale" (AABS) comprised of 17 items and 3 subscales and developed by the researcher has beenused as a data collection tool. As for the analysis of the data SPSS 20.0 package program has been preferred. Theprospective teachers’ beliefs toward the authentic assessment in terms of gender variable has been analyzed withindependent samples t-test and in terms of department and grade variables one way ANOVA has been used. 05degree of significance is used for the analysis. In case of observing significant differences LSD postdoc test has beenused to determine the source of difference and effect size has been calculated to determine the magnitude of thedifference. So as to determine the level of prospective teachers’ beliefs toward the authentic assessment, mean andstandard deviation values have been calculated. According to the findings of the study, the prospective teachers’beliefs toward the authentic assessment have been observed to be high. Moreover prospective teachers’ beliefs havebeen determined to differ significantly in terms of gender, grade and department variables.