Head of Departments' Evaluation of Learning Opportunities Provided for Prospective Elementary Mathematics Teachers

This study aims to determine the evaluations of the head of education department related to the learning opportunities offered to elementary school mathematics teacher candidates. The study carried out for this purpose has a descriptive research design. As a research method, case study was adopted as one of the qualitative methods. This study encompasses 6 state universities in which 21 universities within the context of the project identified differ in the learning opportunities offered to elementary school mathematics teacher candidates. The sample is composed of heads of departments of elementary school mathematics teachers training programs of these 6 state universities. A semi-structured interview was used to collect data, and the obtained data were subjected to content analysis, which is a qualitative data analysis technique. The views of heads of educations departments related to the learning opportunities offered to the teacher candidates revealed that there were differences in the lectures, content and location of the programs, the execution of the courses, the areas of expertise of the lecturers entering the lectures, the quality and quantity of the lectures