AN INVESTIGATION OF STUDENT-TEACHERS’ SCIENTIFIC EPISTEMOLOGICAL BELIEF

In this research, university students’ epistemological beliefs were studied according to some variables (sex, department, class level, high school type, repeating a grade level). Research is in correlative survey model. The The study includes a sample of 651 university students from the Technical Education Faculty in Marmara University. During the sampling procedure, freshmen and senior students in this faculty were chosen by random sampling method. “Scientific Epistemological Beliefs Survey” developed by Pomeroy (1993) and adapted in Turkish by Deryakulu and B kmaz (2003) was used to collect data. In order to determine the scientific epistemological belief level, standart deviation was used. In the research, to analyze the data, Mann Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis tests were applied.