Öğretmen Adaylarının Öğretmenlik Mesleğine İlişkin Tutumları İle Derse Katılım Düzeyleri Arasındaki İlişki

This study aims to examine the attitudes of prospective teachers towards the teaching profession and their class attendance levels in terms of various variables. The participants of the study are 446 students studying in the special education and mental disabilities departments of Trakya University, Abant İzzet Baysal University and Zonguldak Karaelmas University in 2017-2018. According to the results of the research, in which general survey model was utilized, it was seen that the prospective teachers had "high" attitudes towards the profession and presented a “high” commitment to attend classes. The female teacher candidates can be said to have higher attitudes and attend lectures more often than the male candidates. While there was not a meaningful difference in the class attendance of the teacher candidates in terms of gender, there were significant differences according to the department, the desire to work in the field and the class variables. When the attitudes of the candidates to the teaching profession are compared in terms of some variables, significant differences were detected in favor of women considering gender, those who study at special education department among other departments and those who want to work in education sector after graduation. As for class variable, a significant difference was determined in favor of the first grade students. A significant relationship which is r = .502 between the attitudes of prospective teachers towards the teaching profession and their class attendance levels was observed. In addition, the attitude of teacher candidates towards the course can predict the level of attendance by 25% alone.