Scaling the features considered to have affected the academic success of teacher candidates on the basis of rank-order judgement scaling technique

Abstract

In this study, it is aimed that the features affecting the academic success of teacher candidates who have been attending the Faculty of Education be scaled on the basis of rank-order judgement scaling technique. Separately, considering the genders, the types of education and the class levels of the teacher candidates, the order of importance of the factors affecting the academic success on the basis of rankorder judgements has also been specified. The study group comprised 584 teacher candidates who had been attending Pamukkale University, The Faculty of Education between 2013-2014. The most important feature that seems to have affected the academic success of the teacher candidates is the motivation level. On the other hand, the feature with the level of least significance that seems to have affected their success is the fact that these candidates underestimate the faculty they have been studying at. Whereas the most significant factor in both males and females is the motivation level according to the gender variable, the least significant factor is the underestimation of the faculty by the teacher candidates studying there. When the type of education studied by the teacher candidates are taken into consideration, the most significant feature affecting the academic success, according to the teacher candidates of normal type of education, is the motivation level, whereas the teacher candidates of the secondary type of education seem to consider their academic success to be affected by the feature of employment concern.