Attitudes of History Teacher Candidates Who Took Pedagogical Formation Education towards Teaching Profession

Abstract

The aims of this research is to determine the attitudes of history teacher candidates towards teaching profession. the study conducted using survey method from quantitative research aproaches. This study was carried out with 115 history student teacher who are a university in the central Anatolia Region at 2014-2015 academic year. Teaching professional attitude scale developed by Çetin (2006) was used as data collection tool. the scale has 35 items consisting 5 likert type, In the scale, Cronbach-alpha reliability coefficient is as 0,96 was determined. Data were analyzed by using the statistical package SPSS (23.0). In the result of research have been found candidate teachers' atitudes towards teaching profession was differed significantly by gender and the reason of choosing a teaching profession

Keywords

• Tarih öğretmen adayları, öğretmenlik mesleği, tutum