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Ling Kee Htang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Pre-service Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Teaching Profession in Myanmar
Journal of Education and Practice, 2020Co-Authors: Ling Kee HtangAbstract:The purpose of this study was to investigate pre-service teachers’ attitudes towards Teaching Profession in Myanmar. The sample was comprised of 146 (38.4%) male and 234 (61.6%) female pre-service teachers enrolled in BEd final year course. The Attitude Scale towards Teaching Profession was developed by the researcher for measuring the attitudes of pre-service teachers towards Teaching Profession as a data collection tool. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, independent sample t -test and one-way ANOVA. Results showed that there were no significant differences by subject streams and programs but significant differences were observed between male and female of pre-service teachers. Keywords: Attitude, Teaching Profession, Pre-service Teachers
Zeynep Cetinkaya - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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identifying turkish pre service teachers attitudes toward Teaching Profession
Elementary Education Online, 2009Co-Authors: Zeynep CetinkayaAbstract:This study attempts to identify attitudes of Turkish pre-service teachers' attitudes toward Teaching Profession. Data was obtained from 195 last grade students in the Department of Turkish Education, in Dokuz Eylul University. The tool that was used for data collection is called "Attitude Scale Towards Teaching". ANOVA and t-test were employed to analyze the data. The findings have indicated that variebles such as the gender and preference arrangement in OSS proved to be significant on the attitudes of the students, whereas, variables such as the type of high school and existence of a teacher in the family had no impact. SUMMARY Purpose and Significance: Since the teachers have major role in developing learning materials, preparing learning process and identifying interests and competence of students, they are milestones of the education in every country. All their duties require Professional knowledge. In adition the teachers should have a positive attitude toward Teaching Profession. It is believed that positive and negative attitudes of teachers have proportional reflections in the classroom. Because of this fact, the goal of our study was to find out the Turkish pre-service teachers' attitudes towards Teaching Profession. Furthermore, this study tried to reveal whether there is any relationship between students' attitudes in terms of following variables: gender, the type of high school graduated from, preference arrangement in OSS (University Entrance Examination), and having a teacher as a family member. Methods: 195 teacher candidates, 67 males and 128 females were participated in the study. They were senior students in Department of Turkish Education at the Faculty of Education of Dokuz Eylul University. A likert scale developed by Erkus and et al. (2000) with 23 items utilized in the study. The internal consistence coefficient of the scale is 0.99. Cronbach Alpha coefficient was found to be 0.95. SPSS 11.0 Statistical Program was used to analyze the data. Data were analyzed through ANOVA and t- test. Results: Statistical analysis showed that attitudes of pre-service teachers towards Teaching were positive. It was seen that there were significant differences between groups in terms of gender and preference arrangement in OSS. However, there had not been found any significant difference with respect to the type of high school graduated from and the existence of a teacher in the family. Discussion and Conclusions: Based on the findings of the current study and related literature, it can be concluded that pre-service attitudes of teachers' towards Teaching Profession were positive. The possible reasons includes the fact that Teaching Profession is considered prestigious in Turkish Society, and that it provides good job opportunities. Regarding gender, it showed the female teachers had more positive attitudes than male colleague. The general belief that Teaching Profession is considered as a female Profession may have contributed to the difference between genders. The other conclusion showed that candidates who had chosen Teaching study in their first five preferences in OSS had more positive attitudes than others. Based on this finding, it can be concluded that those students had put the study of Teaching in their university preferences because of their positive attitudes. There had not been any significant difference with respect to the type of the high school graduated from. However, since the students graduated from Anatolian Teacher Training High School had taken teacher training (pedagogical) courses, it had been expected that they would show more positive attitudes than students coming from other high schools. The last variable of the study indicated that existence of a teacher in the family did not have any significant difference on the attitudes of the students towards Teaching Profession. It can be therefore concluded that pre-service education in Turkish Language Department had positive impact on students, who have not any teacher in their family.
Mehmet Özcan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Investigation of the Relationship between Teacher Candidates' Attitude and Readiness Levels towards Teaching Profession.
The International Journal of Progressive Education, 2020Co-Authors: Mehmet ÖzcanAbstract:The aim of this study is to determine teacher candidates’ attitude and readiness levels towards Teaching Profession and the relationship of teacher candidates’ attitude and readiness level towards Teaching Profession in terms of gender, grade, having teacher relative, willingly study this department and belief of being a good teacher independent variables. The study group consists of 387 teacher candidates studying at faculty of education from different departments and grades in 2018-2019 academic year. Teacher candidates’ attitude scale and readiness towards Teaching Profession scales were used as data collection tool. For data analyzing independent variables t test, Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis H test and Spearman’srho correlation analysis were used. According to the research results, mean score of teacher candidates’ attitude towards Teaching Profession is 3.84 and mean score of teacher candidates’ readiness towards Teaching Profession is 3.91. In addition, according to the Spearman’srho correlation analysis, there is a moderate and positive relationship between teacher candidates’ attitude and readiness levels towards Teaching Profession.
R. Vinodh Kumar - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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ATTITUDE OF POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS TOWARDS THE Teaching Profession
MIER Journal of Educational Studies Trends and Practices, 2017Co-Authors: R. Vinodh KumarAbstract:The purpose of the present study was to investigate postgraduate students' attitude towards the Teaching Profession according to their gender, locality of residence, locality of educational institution, stream of study, and annual income of the parents. A descriptive survey design was adopted with a sample of 207 postgraduate students selected using a purposive sampling technique. A three-point attitude scale was constructed and validated by the investigator to collect data. The scale comprised of 40 statements including both positive and negative statements. The collected data were analysed with statistical techniques such as mean, standard deviation, and 't'-test. The results revealed that postgraduate students had favourable attitude towards the Teaching Profession. Further, it was found that the variables such as gender, locality of residence, locality of educational institution, stream of study, and annual income of the parents had no influence on postgraduate students' attitude towards the Teaching Profession. This shows that the postgraduate students had similar attitude towards the Teaching Profession.
Nadira Saab - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Student-teachers' commitment to Teaching and intentions to enter the Teaching Profession in Tanzania
South African Journal of Education, 2019Co-Authors: Ikupa Moses, Wilfried Admiraal, Amanda Berry, Nadira SaabAbstract:Commitment to Teaching is a recurring topic in both research and policy discussions on Teaching and the Teaching Profession. We investigated factors explaining differences in student-teachers’ commitment to the Teaching Profession and to student learning, and their intentions to enter the Teaching Profession. Student-teachers ( n = 3,246) from one University College in Tanzania completed a Commitment-to-Teaching questionnaire. Bandura’s Social-Cognitive Theory was used to explain the findings. Differences in student-teachers’ commitment were explained by personal characteristics (i.e., student-teachers’ sense of self-efficacy), environmental factors (i.e., perceived influence of significant others and school conditions), and learning experiences (i.e., student-teachers’ attitudes towards the Teaching Profession, their Teaching subjects, and satisfaction with the teacher education programme). Implications for practice and for research on student-teachers’ commitment to Teaching are discussed. Keywords: commitment to Teaching; intentions to enter Teaching; student-teachers
