An Investigation on Self-Efficacy Perceptions of Prospective Teachers Related to Values Education

The aim of this research is to examine the opinions of the prospective teachers about the teaching of values and self-efficacy perceptions. As a working group, teacher candidates who are studying in their last at spring semester 2016-2017 academic year in Faculty of Education Classroom Training Department and Department of Social Studies Education, were included in the survey. In order to collect the data, a questionnaire prepared by the researchers was applied to the teacher candidates. In the questionnaire, there are open-ended questions about teacher candidates' views on values education and self-efficacy perceptions as well as personal information on gender and departmental variables. During the survey development process, it is provided to Submit questions prepared by researchers to expert opinions and make the necessary corrections according to the feedbacks. The draft survey form, in order to trial a sufficient number of teacher candidates have been tested for intelligibility. After this application, the questionnaire was prepared for the actual application. By analyzing the data obtained through the questionnaire by content analysis method, the categories and codes about teacher candidates' self-efficacy perceptions have reached the findings which have been analyzed according to sex and department variables have discussed with literature support.