An investigation for attitudes of pre-service teachers who enter the university by aptitude examinations towards school experience course

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the attitudes of pre-service teachers who enter to university by aptitude examination towards school experience course. Research was conducted with pre-service teachers who attended school experience course from the department of music teaching (n= 34), art teaching (n= 67) and physical teaching (n= 42). In the study, whether the attitude scale scores of students differ or not by several variables were investigated. T-test and one way ANOVA techniques were used to analysis the data. According to analysis results, it can be said that the students' attitudes towards school experience was positive in general. Furthermore, although there was no significant differences between the attitude scores according to gender, age, type of high school which they have graduated and gap between the high school and university in each department, higher attitude scores by some variables were emerged.