Abstract:

It was aimed to examine the social anxiety levels of the candidate teachers freshmen and seniors from teaching programs at college of education who will take the responsibility of raising the future generations in terms of some variable including gender class type of instruction day or evening and department program The study was designed as a descriptive survey model The study was conducted on the freshmen and seniors attending teaching programs departments of college of education at İnönü University during the spring semester of 2008?2009 The data were collected using Social Introversion subscale of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory It was found in the study that female candidate teachers had higher social anxiety levels than male cand idate teachers that freshmen had higher social anxiety levels than seniors and that no significant difference was found in terms of type of instruction and department program variables

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