Abstract:

Education has always been very important for every nation. The principal goal of education is to create men and women who are creative and discoverers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical and not accept immediately everything they are offered. Because of these goals, teacher profession is so crucial. On the other hand, it is necessary to make the applicant teachers participate in learning process with various activities for improving their self confidence. These activities will cause applicant teachers to develop their self-reliance and to increase their self-sufficiency. So, teachers with high self-confidence will become more successful in achieving the desires goals of education as they can rescue the course from a boring atmosphere and draw students attention. The aim of the research is to determine religious culture and ethics student’ levels of self-efficacy at Ankara University, Faculty of Theology, Department of Religious Culture and Ethics Teaching and to determine whether this levels changing with gender and the type of the high school graduation or not. General scanning method was performed in this study. In the research, “Self-efficacy Scale” and “Personal Information Form” developed by the researcher were used. In the analysis of data, it was benefited from “One Way Analysis of Variance”, “Independent Simple t-Test” and “SPSS 16.0” in order to analyses data. Self-efficacy Scale is five point lykert-type scale including 18 items. The value of the overall reliability of the scale is .81. At the end of the research, it was found that the applicant teachers had the high self-efficacy level to teach Religious Culture and Ethics, that they generally had confidence in themselves and that they believed they had the required qualifications to teach Religious Culture and Ethics at primary schools.

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