Pre-service teachers' attitudes towards scientific research methods course: (The sample of Gazi University, Gazi Faculty of Education)

Pınar Bilasa,Mehmet Taşpınar

doi:10.31704/ijocis.2019.011

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine the attitudes of the students of Gazi University Gazi Education Faculty towards Scientific Research Methods (SRM) course. The survey model was used in this descriptive study. In the study, 20-item 'Attitude Scale towards Scientific Research Methods Course' developed by Yaşar (2014) was used. The study population consisted of 308 pre-service teachers attending the German Language Education, Arabic Language Education, French Language Education, English Language Education, Philosophy Group Education, department of primary education and Preschool Teacher Education Departments at Gazi University, Gazi Faculty of Education in the spring term of 2017-2018 academic year. As a result of the research, it is difficult to say that the pre-service teachers have positive attitudes at the desired level towards the SRM course. It was determined that the pre-service teachers of the Philosophy Group had more positive attitudes towards the SRM course than the pre-service teachers of the other departments.

Highlights

Having the competence of conducting research, inquiry and reaching a conclusion has become an important skill required to produce information in today’s world
The state, which is the subject of the research is attempted to be described as it is in its own conditions without any intervention (Karasar, 2018, p. 109). In line with this model, in this study, the pre-service teachers’ attitudes towards the Scientific Research Methods (SRM) course, which were taken as the dependent variable, were investigated on the basis of the department attended, which was taken as the independent variable
In order to determine the attitudes of the 308 pre-service teachers participating in the study towards the SRM course, first Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) normal distribution test was run (Taşpınar, 2017)

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Introduction

Having the competence of conducting research, inquiry and reaching a conclusion has become an important skill required to produce information in today’s world. In order to foster problem solving skill, one of the 21st century life skills, firstly curiosity about conducting research needs to be developed. With this curiosity aroused in an individual, the individual can acquire different skills. 10), administrators, teachers and students are expected to have different knowledge and skills. As teacher training programs aim to impart basic competences in pre-service teachers 7), they should be qualified and competent enough to impart new life skills to pre-service teachers As teacher training programs aim to impart basic competences in pre-service teachers (Bhargava & Paty, 2010, p. 7), they should be qualified and competent enough to impart new life skills to pre-service teachers

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