Abstract:

The main purpose of this research is to evaluate the relationship between primary school teacher candidates’ teacher self efficacy belief levels in science teaching and their intelligence types This research was prepared by survey model The sample of this research consists of 363 teacher candidates attending first second third and fourth grades of Gazi University Faculty of Education Department of Primary Education and Cukurova University Faculty of Education Department of Primary Education To collect data The Science Teaching Efficacy Belief Inventory STEBI Enochs Riggs 1990 and Scale of Multiple Intelligence Saban 2001 were used To analyze data independent samples t test one way ANOVA LSD analysis descriptive analysis and Pearson correlation coefficient were chosen Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was calculated in order to establish reliabilities of the instruments SPSS 11 5 package programme was used during these analyses At the end of the study findings revealed that teacher candidates’ self efficacy belief level is average Meaningful differences weren’t determined between the candidates’ self efficacy beliefs according to their genders and grades of classroom in both general of the scale and subscales There is no meaningful correlation between the genders of the candidates and their intelligence types There are “strongly developed” level candidates in all types of intelligences Among the intelligence areas logical mathematical intelligence includes the most of the “strongly developed” level candidates It is determined that there are low and average level meaningful correlations between the candidates’ self efficacy scores and intelligence scores and between all of the intelligence scores In respect of ANOVA findings there are meaningful differences between candidates’ self efficacy scores according to different development levels of types of intelligence At the end of the study some proposals were put forward toward the educational practices and other related researches Key words: Self efficacy belief multiple intelligence science teaching

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