English teacher candidates' self-efficacy towards Fatih Project

The aim of this study is to determine teacher candidates' self-efficacy beliefs towards the usage of FATİH Project technologies who study in Faculty of Education, English Language Teaching Department, if the course contents prepared by HEC meet the designated teacher qualifications by MONE in this context and to reveal teacher candidates' views about the project. The research is a descriptive study in which one of the mixed research designs (Convergent Parallel Design) was used. The study group consist of 422 undergraduate students who study in Akdeniz University, Faculty of Education, English Language Teaching Department, Quantitative data of the study was collected through "FATİH Project Technologies Self-Efficacy Scale" from volunteer 296 students. The qualitative data was also collected through document analysis and interviews carried out with 24 participants who were selected with purposive sampling among 296 students. As the collected scale data normally distributed it was analyzed through One-Way ANOVA and Independent Sample T Test. Furthermore, the research data collected through document analysis was analyzed through "Yes or No" technique and the data obtained from the interviews was analyzed as themes after coding. The results of the data analysis show that participants in the study group have high level of self-efficacy beliefs towards the usage of FATİH Project technologies. While teacher candidates' self-efficacy beliefs towards the usage of FATİH Project technologies do not significantly differ according to class, their beliefs significantly differ according to gender in favor of male participants. According to findings gathered from document analysis the course contents prepared by YÖK %92,85 allow the teacher qualifications designated by MEB in this context. Moreover interview findings show that teacher candidates have general knowledge about FATİH Project. This knowledge is randomly acquired however they have positive ideas about the project. According to research results educational technologies are the items that teacher candidates have opportunity to use or supposed to be used whether FATİH Project exist or not. Although teacher candidates in general have high level of self-efficacy beliefs towards FATİH Project, carrying out a concrete and regular training and adding a learning module that have contents to increase the awareness towards the aim, scope and expectations of the project can be useful on behalf of applicability.