Analysis of the attitudes of final year students in faculty of education towards postgraduate education

Abstract

Teachers who are in the most important position of education process, are expected to educate next generations ideally and to become educators who improve himself to be more productive, who can reach scientific data and use these datum correctly. In this content, at our research, it was aimed at determining the attitudes of teacher candidates towards the postgraduate education which contributes both to their academical and professional progresses highly. Study group of the research consists of the seniors studying at the departments of primary school teaching, Turkish teaching and English teaching of Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Faculty of Education, at 2013-2014 fall term school year. Research is descriptive and figured according to survey model. Datums of the research were obtained through “Attitude Scale Towards Postgraduate Education” which is built up by Unal and Ilter (2010) and were analyzed through percent, frequency, t-test and single direction variance analysis (One Way ANOVA) statistics techniques. At the research, it has been found out that average of the general attitudes of senior undergraduate students towards the postgraduate education is at the “agree” range; accordingly, it can be said that attitudes of the senior undergraduate students towards the postgraduate education are high. Besides, while the attitudes of the senior undergraduate students towards postgraduate education do not differ according to gender, type of highschool graduated; significant differences are found at the attitudes towards the postgraduate education according to curricula which is studied, general success average, request for academic career and the reason factors for preferring the programme studied. © 2014 European Journal of Research on Education by IASSR.