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The purpose of this research is to determine the self-efficacy perceptions of 21st century skills of social studies teacher candidates and to examine their self-efficacy perceptions of 21st century skills in terms of various variables (gender, age and grade level). The universe of this research, in which the mixed method was used, consists of (n=185) Social Studies Education Department students studying at Trabzon University, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University and Artvin University (3rd and 4th grade) in the 2020-2021 Academic year. Since it is not possible to reach the entire universe, the sample consists of (n=185) students studying in the Department of Social Studies Education, selected by the "simple random" method. Demographic characteristics were determined with the "Personal Information Form". As a data collection tool, the "21st Century Skills Efficiency Perceptions Scale for Teacher Candidates" developed by Anagün, Atalay, Kılıç and Yaşar  (2016) and the "Semi-Structured Interview Form" consisting of 3 open-ended questions developed by the researchers were applied. T test and ANOVA tests were used in the analysis of the data showing normal distribution. The findings show that the 21st century skills proficiency perception levels of social studies teacher candidates are higher than the medium value. It was determined that the mean scores of the 21st century skills self-efficacy perception level of the pre-service teachers did not show a significant difference according to the age and grade level variables, but showed a significant difference in favor of the female teacher candidates according to the gender variable. It has been determined that the answers given by the pre-service teachers to the open-ended questions largely overlap with the data obtained from the 21st century skills efficacy perception scale.

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