The Effects of Genders of Prospective Teachers on their Attitudes towards Teaching Profession: A Meta-Analysis

Ümit Polat

doi:10.29333/pr/5732

Abstract

One of the factors supporting the professional success of prospective teachers is their attitudes towards teaching profession. Many studies have been carried out on determining the attitudes of prospective teachers towards teaching profession. One of the main questions in those studies is to determine if the gender is effective or not. In this study, the meta-analysis was performed in order to determine the effects of gender on the attitudes of prospective teachers towards teaching profession between 2010 and 2015. As a result of database scanning, it has been seen that there were 34 publications that contain related data for meta-analysis. According to the performed analyses, it was concluded that there was no publication bias and it was required to perform analysis according to random effects model. According to meta-analysis results, the general impact level of the publications was 0.323 and they were at small size level. In other words, attitudes of female students towards teaching profession were higher than that of male students. According to the analyses from the aspect of score type of the departments, at which the prospective teachers were studying, it can be said that the differentiation by scores was significant and the attitudes of female and male students were similar in science-math scores. In analyses performed from the aspect of geographical regions of study, it was concluded that the differentiation was not significant.

Highlights

With the increase in social expectations, there is more expectation about the quality of educational outcomes
If the prospective teachers have a positive attitude towards the profession, they can develop the internal motivation about teaching to their students in the future, communicate effectively with the students and spend more on individualizing and diversifying their learning situations (Andronache et al, 2014)
It was concluded that there was no significant difference between the attitudes of the prospective teachers towards the teaching profession and their gender, and there was no significant difference between the attitude towards the teaching profession and the high school graduated

Summary

INTRODUCTION

With the increase in social expectations, there is more expectation about the quality of educational outcomes. According to the study of the attitude of the first-year students of the Faculty of Education of Sakarya University towards the teaching profession, it was determined that there was a significant difference between the Pedagogical Research, 4(1), em0027 prospective teachers' attitudes in the girls' favor. In the study on the attitudes of the first and fourth grade pre-service teachers studying at Uludağ University towards the teaching profession, it was determined that there was no difference according to the grade level and graduation type of high school. Artvin Çoruh University Faculty of Education Department of Primary School Teacher Education in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of the study conducted with a total of 192 university students according to the gender, grade level and graduated from the type of high school teacher candidates determined that there was no significant difference in attitudes. H0: Gender has no effect on attitudes towards teaching according to geographical regions where the study sample is located

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