Determining science teacher candidates' scientific epistemological beliefs and their attitudes towards science

Science is structured to develop individual's exploration, research, inquiry and investigation skills. The skills that people use in the process of testing and explain their observations by exploring the nature appear in the field of science. The people who involve in research and inquiry process describe the date as scientific knowledge at the end of this process. Science Education Programme applied in our country examines the process of obtaining scientific knowledge of individuals. Science teacher candidates who will be the practitioner of science course in the schools. Accordingly, the determination of Science teacher candidates' ideas about scientific knowledge reveals the importance of this research. This study aims to determine Science Teacher Candidates' scientific epistemological beliefs and their attitudes towards science. This research has been applied to 616 science teacher training faculty students of different state universities in 2018-2019 education year. In the research, "Personal information form" is used to determine to Science Teacher Candidates' demographic structure, "Scientific Epistomological Belief Scale" which was prepared by the researcher has been used to examine their epistemological beliefs and "Attitude Towards Science Test", which was improved by Moore and Foy (1997), and adopted by Türkmen (1999) has been used to determine to their attitude. The analyisis of the data is done by using statistics. At the end of the research and according to the research, Science Teacher Candidates' epistemological beliefs are good and their perception of science is clear and it can be said that their attitudes can be considered positive. When the relationship between epistomological beliefs and attitude towards science are analysed, a positive low-level significant relationship has emerged. According to the results of the research, suggestions that will contribute to future studies are presented.