Physical education teacher candidates self-efficacy and attitude toward the profession

The main purpose of this study is to determine prospective physical education and teachers? self-efficacy perceptions and their attitudes towards the teaching profession.The research has been carried out by Survey model in the 2011-2012 academic years. The research was conducted on 601 prospective physical education teachers who educated physical education and sports teaching programs in 6 different universities. In the study it was used that Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale (Çapa ve ark., 2005) and Attitude Scale for the Profession of Physical Education Teaching (Ünlü, 2011) as a data collection tool.The SSPS 15.0 was used for analyses of data.