The purpose of this survey is to analyse the issues related to education of pre-service
physics teachers in Turkey. After reviewing the related literature, the problems were grouped
in three categories / (1) Problems occurred before entering Physics Teacher Education
Program, (2) Problems occurred during Physics Teacher Education Program, and (3)
Problems occurred after graduation from Physics Teacher Education Program. Three
questionnaires / Pre-service Physics Teacher Questionnaire-1 (PPTQ-1), Pre-service Physics
Teacher Questionnaire-2 (PPTQ-2), and Lecturers Questionnaire (LQ) were developed to get
information about opinions of the pre-service physics teachers and the lecturers on problems
of physics teacher education. The research was conducted on 245 the pre-service physics
teachers in 5 years, 297 the pre-service physics teachers in 4+1.5 years, and 85 lecturers in
Physics Teacher Education Programs in 2005-2006 spring semesters.
The data obtained from the administration of the measuring instruments were analysed
by using Ms-Excel and SPSS programs. Results of the statistical analyses indicated that the
pre-service physics teachers and the lecturers think that / the pre-service physics teachers do
not come to 5 years Physics Teacher Education Program willingly and consciously / characteristics which are important and necessary to be a good physics teacher can not be
measured with university entrance exam / Physics Teacher Education Programs can not cause
the pre-service teachers to gain the efficiencies in physics subject matter knowledge, general
pedagogical knowledge, and general knowledge which are determined by Ministry of
National Education completely / increasing the period of Physics Teacher Education Program
do not supplement better qualified physics teachers in Turkey / quantity and quality of the
lecturers in Physics Teacher Education Program are not sufficient / and Public Personnel
Selection Exam can not measure whether the pre-service physics teachers have characteristics
of a good physics teacher or not.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607743/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 August 2006 |
| Creators | Tam, Mehtap |
| Contributors | Eryilmaz, Ali Bap-2006-05-01-02 |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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