INVESTIGATING ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS AND CRITICAL THINKING DISPOSITIONS OF TEACHER CANDIDATES

?brahim Karagöl (karagolibrahim@gmail.com) and Sinan Bekmezci (sinanpekmezci@gmail.com)
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?brahim Karagöl: Ege University
Sinan Bekmezci: Celal Bayar University

No 701676, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between academic achievements and critical thinking dispositions of teacher candidates in Faculty of Education and to find out whether critical thinking dispositions and academic achievements scores of teacher candidates differ according to gender, field of the study, income level of parents, type of high school. The population consists of the teacher candidates at the Department of Primary School Teaching, Social Scinece Teaching, Turkish Teaching and Science Teaching at Ege University and Celal Bayar University, Faculty of Education. The study group is determined by convenience sampling method. Scores of teacher candidates obtained through ?Critical Thinking Dispositions Inventory? developed by Akb?y?k (2002) and students? overall grade point avarage are used in the study. SPSS 17.00 program is used for analysis of the data. Research design is survey and correlational model.

Keywords: academic achievement; critical thinking disposition; teacher candidates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 1 page
Date: 2014-10
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 12th International Academic Conference, Prague, Oct 2014, pages 675-675

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