Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
HACETTEPE UNIVERSITESI EGITIM FAKULTESI DERGISI-HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, cilt.37, sa.1, ss.58-75, 2022 (ESCI)
This study aimed to determine pre-service Computer Education and Instructional Technology (CEIT) teachers' perceptions of their professional competence and to examine whether their perceptions vary by gender, type of high school they graduated, or the cluster of their university. This study sample consisted of 434 students from 30 universities. The Pre-Service CEIT Teachers' Perception of Their Professional Competency Scale developed based on the ISTE Standards for Computer Science Educators and was used as a data collection tool. The 5-point Likert-type scale consists of 30 items and has three factors: content information, teaching and learning strategies, and professional knowledge and skills. In the research, the pre-service CEIT teachers' perceptions of professional competency were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Most of the students assessed their professional competency in content information as moderate. They generally assessed their professional competency in teaching and learning strategies and professional knowledge and skills as moderate or good. Moreover, several significant differences were found in their perception of professional competence based on gender, type of high school graduated, and the cluster of their university.