The effects of pedagogical training program on students’ professional attitudes and self efficacy levels

Abstract

Obviously, one of the most important elements of education is teacher. The effect of the teacher is very high and the importance of professional attitudes and self-efficacy levels of teachers are improving in each day. Nowadays, pedagogic training program is going on for the students that are graduated from the other faculties than education. At the end of this certificate program, these students are being teachers. This study aims to investigate the effects of pedagogic training program on students’ professional attitudes and self efficacy levels. A weak experimental design is conducted for the study. Experimental design is known as one of the quantitative research methods. The population of the study are 1037 Siirt university pedagogical training program students. This program started in July 2014 and finished in January 2015. Professional Attitude Scale (PAS) and Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale (TSS) are used as pre-test at the beginning and post-test at the end of the study. PAS is developed by Çetin (2006) and includes 35 items and TSS is developed by Çapa, Çakıroğlu and Sarıkaya (2005) and includes 24 items. At the end of the study, there is no statistically significant difference between pre-test and post test scores on participants’ professional attitudes scores and its subscales love, value and appropriateness. Additionally there is a statistically significant difference on participants self-efficacy scores and its to subscales student participant and teaching strategies. © The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology.