Abstract:

The aim of this study, which was carried out with 221 senior students attended measurement and evaluation course in 2011-2012 academic year at the Faculty of Educational Sciences at Ankara University, is to explore the attitude towards measurement and evaluation course, the attitude towards teaching profession and the self-efficacy perceptions of teaching, to determine their correlations with the achievement in measurement and evaluation course and also to find out the variables predicting the achievement in measurement and evaluation course. This is a quantitative correlational research. In accordance with the main purpose of this research, the relationship between the predictor variables and the criterion (predicted) variables were analysed through correlational and regression analysis techniques. As a result of the research, it has been found out that the variables of gender and father’s educational status are the significant predictors of achivement in measurement and evaluation course for the preservice teachers.

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