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This study aims determining academic self-efficacy perception of teacher
candidates. It is survey model. Population of the study consists of teacher
candidates in 2010-2011 academic years at Ahmet Keleşoğlu Education
Faculty of Education Formation of Selçuk University. A simple random
sample was selected as sampling method and the study was conducted on 312
teacher candidates. The data of this study was obtained by “academic selfefficacy
scale” which was developed by Jerusalem and Schwazer (1981) and
translated into Turkish by Yılmaz, Gürçay, and Ekici (2007) and its reliability
value was determined as .79. However, Cronbach Alfa reliability value of this
scale became .76 with the result of the data analysis of the study. SPSS
package program was used to analyze the data; and the data analysis,
frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, independent
samples t-test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and post hoc tests
(LSD) test were used. When the findings of the research were considered in
general, the result showed that the academic self-efficacy perception level of
the candidates was at desired level. However, teachers' views about the level
of academic self-efficacy perception showed that most of them preferred a
lower level option "suits me", instead of "totally suits me" option that was the
highest degree of participation of four likert-type scale. This illustrated that
their perception about this issue was not at a very high level. When
independent variables were taken into account, among the academic
perception levels of teacher candidates, a significant difference was detected
in terms of working as a teacher or not and academic achievement variables
but it revealed no significant difference in terms of gender and type of
education program variables.
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