A study on students' perceptions of religious belief concepts

The aim of this study is to examine the perceptions of students studying at different education levels towards belief concepts. Within the framework of this general purpose, it has been tried to reveal how students' perceptions of belief concepts are, whether their perception levels differ according to various variables, and what are the students' views on belief concepts given in curricula. In order to achieve this aim of the research, the simultaneous transformative design, which is one of the mixed research types in which both qualitative and quantitative approaches are used, was used. The quantitative dimension of the research was shaped according to the general survey and the qualitative dimension was shaped according to the phenomenology pattern. In order to collect the data in the quantitative part, 626 students who were able to represent the universe were reached with the simple random sampling method, and 16 students who were determined according to the stratified purposive sampling method in the qualitative part were reached. As the data collection tool of the research; "Students' Perception of Beliefs Scale" and "Semi-Structured Interview Form" developed by the researcher were used. In the analysis of research data; Quantitative data, descriptive statistics, independent groups t-test and one-way analysis of variance were used. Qualitative data were analyzed by content analysis. As a result of the research; It has been concluded that the effects of variables such as age and family income level are great on students' perception of belief concepts and that the qualitative results support the quantitative results.