Abstract:

In this study, the teachers of sciences (science and technology, physics, chemistry and biology) studied gender, vocational background, graduation industry, status of participation in service education and self-quality views on laboratory studies. The universe of research is formed by teachers of science who worked in the Kayseri province center in the 2009-2010 educational year. The sample of the study consists of 209 teachers randomly selected through the universe’s sample. The study was conducted by a teacher with a reliability ratio of 0.92. The data analysis was done using the SPSS 16.0 (Statiscal Package for Social Sciences) package program. The data was analyzed with the use of appropriate statistical methods to study the characteristics of the distribution. At the end of the study, it was found that teachers of science thought that their self-sufficiency ratings for laboratory practices were 77.88 above 54 points, which are the indicator of landlessness, and that teachers thought they were sufficient in terms of laboratory practices. In addition, the teachers have been statistically analyzed whether the self-sufficiency score for laboratory practices differs according to the variables of gender, duration of service, graduated higher education institution, graduation department, participation in service education. The study found that there were no statistically significant differences between teachers’ self-sufficiency scores depending on gender and status of participation in service education, but there were significant differences between the groups depending on the duration of service, the higher education institution graduated and the graduation department.

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