Abstract
The purpose of this study is to develop competencies of teachers, the coordination of the education, learning activities; in having access to innovations, developments and scientific studies in the literature. In addition, the purpose is to determine how teachers’ scientific research self-efficacy and attitude towards the scientific research change based on the parameters such as gender, age and branch. Three different data collection tools were used in the study. The study group consists of 44 teachers working in Agri in different disciplines. The study was carried out by using mixed (including qualitative and quantitative methods) method. Teachers were provided a 12-week training for two hours a week with the purpose of improving their scientific research skills and their continuous attendance was ensured. Significant differences were observed in the research attitude scores of the teachers included in the study. During quantitative analysis of the study, majority of the teachers stated that they do not have any knowledge on scientific codes of conduct, how to conduct scientific research and how to review the literature and they showed no interest towards scientific research before the recent study. Key words: Scientific research, self-efficacy, teacher.
Highlights
It is important to understand fully the scientific content of our life today
A single-item data collection tool was applied to teachers who participated in the study before and after the application aimed at determining the scientific research self-efficacy and attitudes of teachers towards scientific research as well as their relevant opinions
The majority of the teachers stated that they do not have any knowledge on scientific codes of conduct (f=9), how to conduct a scientific research (f=20) and how to review the literature (f=9) and they showed no interest towards scientific research (f=9) prior to the present study
Summary
It is important to understand fully the scientific content of our life today. Teachers assume the responsibility of educating students starting from young ages to comprehend scientific developments and make the necessary evaluations. The students raised to have such competencies will gain self-confidence and they will have the knowledge on how to utilize scientific research in fulfilling their social responsibilities. Scientific research is an enlightening process of using scientific methodology steps, finding solutions to problems with the purpose of understanding the unknown. Research gains importance only when it is in compliance with the scientific methodology steps. Gulbahar et al (2004) describe scientific research as "converting a subject that is required to be understood into a problem and attempting to find an answer and publishing the conclusion with the purpose of announcing to others", while Balci (2009) describes it as "collecting data with
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