Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, cilt.18, sa.1, ss.1-21, 2017 (Scopus)
This study reports on the attitudes of science and technology teachers’ towards
educational research that were investigated and analyzed with respect to certain
demographic variables. The survey method was utilized as the research design. The
study group consisted of 918 science and technology teachers working in middle
schools in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. The data were collected using the Likert scale; ‘Teachers Attitude Scale towards Educational Research (TASTER)’.
The sub-scales of TASTER included the necessity of educational research, the
value of educational research and applicability of educational research. The results
of the study showed that female teachers have more positive attitudes towards the
applicability of educational research to classroom practice. Valuing educational
research and necessity of educational research increases with the number of years
of teaching experience. Teachers who graduate from faculties other than education
believe in the necessity of educational research more than teachers from education
faculties. Furthermore, when compared with the views of teachers working in rural
areas those teachers employed in urban areas consider educational research to be
more necessary, and teachers with Master’s degrees believe in the applicability of
educational research more than teachers with graduate degrees.