Scientific attitude levels of instructors at higher education

This study is aimed to determine the scientific attitude levels of instructors. The research population is 6807 instructors working at Dokuz Eylul University, Ege University, Izmir Institute of Technology, Katip Celebi University, Izmir University of Economics and Yasar University in 2016-2017 academic year. The research sample includes 678 in total, 341 women, 337 men at these universities. The Scale of Instructors' Scientific Attitudes deveopled by the researcher and Personal and Academic Data Form are used as a data collection tool in the research. "Democratic Tendency Scale" developed by Zencirci (2003) and "Updated Dogmatism Scale" developed by Sherman and Levine (2006) were used during the development period of The Scale of Instructors' Scientific Attitudes. Thirteen research questions were answered in this research. The data has been analyzed by using arithmetic mean, standard deviation, t- Test, Kruskall Wallis and One-Way Anova. When the difference was found significant, Mann-Whitney U Test and LSD Test of Significance were used in order to determine which groups create differences. The independent variables are instructors' personal and academic qualifications (gender, age, education, title, experience of working at university, the type of university they are working for, the scientific field they are working in, number of academic rewards, number of articles and books, number of thesis supervision and scientific research projects). The dependent variable is instructors' scientific attitude levels. Scientific levels of instructors does not have any significant difference according to their gender. Significant differences have determined according to the increase in their ages, titles, their work experiences, publications, their supervisorships, projects and university type and their fields. Key words: Instructors, Science, Scientific Attitude Levels, Dogmatism