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In the teacher training, the information of how to develop an educational material is taught to the teacher candidates in Turkey. It is considered that an action research aimed to determine the ways to improve achievements of teacher candidates in “Instructional technologies and material design” (ITMD) course is thought to be useful to the educational research field. From this point, in this course it was aimed to find a way how to improve achievements of teacher candidates in ITMD course. An action research, which is one of the ways to detect problems and seek solutions for this problem, was used. Participants of the research were the teacher candidates who are 21 sophomore students at Ordu University, Faculty of Education, Department of Primary School Teacher Education, within2014-2015 educational year. Besides, three field experts were consulted to detect problems and offer solutions during the material design process. As data collection tools, semi-constructed “expert opinion form” and “student candidate interview form” were used. According to the findings, the experts think that the teacher candidates are having problems in developing creative materials, are reluctant about the preparations and are insufficient for having teachers / students' opinions during the preparations. The exhibition that the teacher candidates prepared positively affected their senses of achievement, attitudes toward the profession and professional competence.

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