EXAMINING OF THE BURNOUT LEVEL OF PRE-SERVICE TURKISH TEACHERS (THE SAMPLE OF EGE UNIVERSITY)

This study intends to determine pre-service teachers’ -who studied at Ege University Faculty of Education Turkish Teaching licence programme in 2014-2015 academic year (spring semester)- burnout levels according to their gender, grade and preference. In the study, “Maslach Burnout Inventory (Student Version)” was used which was developed by Schaufeli et al (2002) in order to determine the burnout levels of students and adopted to Turkish by Balkıs et al (2011) as a measurement tool. The scale which is consisted of 15 items is seven-point Likert-type. Rating is formed as “Completely Agree”, “Agree”, “Slightly Agree", “Undecided”, “Slightly Disagree”, “Disagree” and “Completely Disagree”. Overall burnout level is determined by calculating all scale items. Getting the highest score from scale is considered as an indicator of higher burnout. 50 pre-service Turkish teachers studying at first grade, 45 pre-service Turkish teachers studying at second grade, 42 pre-service Turkish teachers studying at third grade and 34 pre-service Turkish teachers studying at fourth grade were consisted the sample of the study. In this study, 171 prospective teachers’ (109 female and 62 male) burnout levels were evaluated. The collected data were analyzed by using SPSS. T-test and Anova were applied on data. Significant differences were observed in the burnout level of pre-service Turkish teachers according to gender in the favor of female (X=62.86), the burnout level according to grade in the favor of 4th grade (X=78.20), the burnout level according to preference in the favor of involuntary (X=69.70).