Individual Innovativeness Levels of Science Teacher Candidates

Abstract

This study is intended to detect the level of individual innovativeness among science teacher candidates and to demonstrate whether levels of individual innovativeness differ based on different variables like gender, grade level, reception or lack of preschool education and daily time spent on the internet. Survey model, one of quantitative research models, was used in this study. The sample this research is 154 science teacher candidates studying at a state university in eastern Turkey. In this research, Individual Innovativeness Scale has been used as a data collection tool. It was observed in the study that majority of science teacher candidates are individually innovative at medium level and that they could be placed in the category of “questioning” people as far as their individual innovativeness are concerned. As a result of this research, it is seen that male teacher candidates are more resistant to innovations compared to female ones. Moreover, it has been observed in the study that reception or lack of preschool education did not have an impact on the individual innovativeness, and that the more time teacher candidates spend on the internet, the less their individual innovative levels are.