Özet:

The aim of this study is to determine recently enrolled prospective teachers’ reasons for choosing physics education department, whether they think of working as a physics teacher and reasons for working or not working as a physics teacher. In addition, it is aimed to reveal prospective teachers’ sex, age, type of graduated high school, undergraduate placement (LYS) scores, made preferences and list of their preferences. In order to achieve this aim, 21 students, who deserved to be enrolled to physics education program at Balıkesir University, Necatibey Faculty of Education in the academic term of 2011-2012, were asked to fill in “Reasons for Preferences about Teacher Education Department Questionnaire”. Some data obtained from the questionnaire, which consists of 10 questions, have been presented with tables of frequency analysis while the other data related to open ended questions have been examined by using content analysis. Analysis results show that majority of students (66.67%) are graduated from general high schools and have a wide range of scores (differentiates between 233 and 246) obtained from LYS exam. All prospective teachers were found to choose different number of physics education programs ranging from zero to five. Additionally, most of the prospective teachers (85.71%) indicated that they would work as a physics teacher. Reasons for preferences and doing teaching job are presented in tables by categorising in distinctive thematic headings.

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