Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to identify the changes in the attitudes of teacher candidates continuing pedagogic formation training certification programme, towards profession starting from the first stage within the process and to address the effect of this change on gender and type of school they graduated variables. This study was figured according to longitudinal panel searching model of developmental research which is one of the descriptive research method. As the population of study was formed by teacher candidates of different branches continuing pedagogic formation training certification programme of a public university, the sample was formed by 114 mathematics teacher candidates continuing this programme. In conclusion, with this study done to obtain the changes in attitudes of teacher candidates continuing pedagogic formation training programme, towards profession in period starting from the first stage and to address the effect of this change on gender and high school type variables, a conclusion was reached that a positive change occurred in attitudes of teacher candidates towards profession. Also, another important result obtained from the study is that gender and high school variables do not affect the attitude points of teacher candidates towards profession. Keywords: Attitudes, Pedagogic formation training programme, Teacher candidate, Longitudinal panel searching model.

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