AN ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL STUDIES COMPETENCY OF TURKISH CLASSROOM TEACHERS

dc.creator	Filiz EVRAN ACAR
dc.date	2008-07-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:27:58Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:27:58Z
dc.identifier	1694-609X
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/b055f315b40c46c2bc676ac256ddab00
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/21901
dc.description	The aim of this study is to determine the importance of the competence and competence acquiring levels in the subject matter and subject teaching of the teachers who are graduated from the primary school teaching programmes of the educational faculties, towards the social studies. The universe population of the research are the teachers who were graduated from the Education Faculties, Department of Elementary Education the primary school teaching programmes and whose assignments were made by the Ministry of National Education (MEB), 270 teachers in total have been taken into the sampling group. The subject matter and subject teaching competencies of the classroom teachers for the social studies are determined with the analyze method. The questionnaire forms are prepared upon the determined competencies. From the teachers included in the scope of the research, it was asked to declare their opinions on the importance of the social studies competency in the proceeding of the education-training activities and their acquisition levels for these competencies during their university studies. The ratio of the questionnaire forms which were filled out by the classroom teachers and sent via mail and whose validity is acknowledged is 51, 48%. It has been understood that, the determined competencies on the social studies have been found as important by the teachers. The average of their acquiring levels for the determined competencies is lower than their importance level average. In other words, some meaningful differences between the averages of the social studies importance and acquiring levels were found. The teachers could not have the competency on the social studies in a manner compatible with its importance.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	International Journal of Instruction
dc.relation	http://www.e-iji.net/dosyalar/iji_2008_2_5.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1694-609X
dc.source	International Journal of Instruction, Vol 1, Iss 2, Pp 77-106 (2008)
dc.subject	Competency of teacher
dc.subject	Social studies
dc.subject	Assessment of competence
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	AN ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL STUDIES COMPETENCY OF TURKISH CLASSROOM TEACHERS
dc.type	article