Abstract:

The aim of this study is to reveal the pre-service teachers’ opinions on Civil Servant Selection Examination (CSSE) and field examination.  In this study, criteria sampling has been used which is a purposeful sampling method. The study has been conducted with total of 16 pre-service teachers. 12 of whom were students at the Yüzüncü Yıl University Education Faculty and the other 4 participants were students/bachelor from Faculty of Science and Faculty of Humanities and were attending the pedagogical formation certificate program. Six of the participants were female and others were male. In the study, phenomenological design was used which is a qualitative research design. It is believed that the phenomenological design is appropriate for the purpose of this research because the pre-service teachers’ perceptions of CSSE occurrences were tried to be revealed. The data of the study were collected by semi-structured interview technique. The interview form has been developed by the researchers by referring to expert opinion sand by searching the literature. The interview form consists of seven openended questions. The voice recordings obtained in the interviews were documented and analyzed by using descriptive analysis technique. Direct citation was often used in order to reflect the views of the participants strikingly.  According to the findings of the study, the inclusion of the field examto CSSE was welcomed by all of the participants. Pre-service teachers think that CSSE is in adequate to measure the teaching skills. Nevertheless, thepre-service teachers regard the CSSE examination as the most reasonable method in ourcountry’sconditions. 

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