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Copyright of Itobiad: Journal of the Human & Social Science Researches / İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Araştırmaları Dergisi is the property of Itobiad: Journal of the Human & Social Science Researches and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

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The aim of this study is to determine preschool teacher candidates' self-efficacy belief levels and their attitudes about computer-assisted instruction as well as to determine the relationship between those two notions. In this study the preferred method was the mixed method where both quantitative and qualitative data is used conjointly. The data in the quantitative dimension of the study were collected with "Preschool Teachers' Self-Efficacy Beliefs Scale" developed by Tepe and Demir (2011) and "Computer-Assisted Instruction Attitude Scale", developed by Arslan (2006).The data in the qualitative dimension of the study were collected through an interview form developed by the researchers. Quantitative data were analyzed by a statistics software program and qualitative data were construed by descriptive analysis. The population of the research consisted of teacher candidates who are studying in the Preschool Education departments of Fırat, Cumhuriyet, Amasya, Adıyaman, Ahi Evran, and Dicle Universities in the 2017-2018 academic year. In this context, assessments were one regarding several variable. Accordingly, female teacher candidates' selfefficacy levels, and their attitudes about computer-assisted instruction are determined to be higher, significant difference is ascertained in favor of teacher candidates who are in their senior years and who own their own personal computers. In addition, a low-level significant correlation in the positive direction was found between the teacher candidates' self-efficacy levels and their attitudes about computer-assisted instruction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study is to put forth how the preschool teacher candidates perceive the concept of democracy. Therefore, qualitative research method was adopted in this study. Within this scope, 163 students studying in Preschool Education Program in Anadolu University, who participated in the study voluntarily, were made to fill in the open ended questionnaire which would demonstrate what they associated the concept of democracy with and why they did this association and next, the data obtained from 125 of the questionnaires were assessed. As a result, teacher candidates' metaphors toward the concept of democracy were classified in nine different categories. The metaphors obtained were identified as; freedom, different opinions existing together, cooperation, having an essential importance, equity-justice, and capability to change based on initiative, impossibility aspect. The teacher candidates mostly formed metaphors in the equity-justice category. The mostly repeated metaphor appeared to be the balance metaphor. As a result of the research, it was found out that the teacher candidates didn't evaluate the concept of democracy in all aspects but focused mostly on the management aspect. Furthermore, although it was found out that they associated the concept of democracy with concepts as politics or governing of a country, they didn't associate it with the education processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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