Abstract
THE OPİNİONS OF CANDİDATE TEACHERS ON THE EVOLUTİON THEORY
The purpose of this research is to specify views of candidate teachers on the evolution theory. Last grade candidate teachers of the Universty Dicle Ziya Gökalp Education Faculty Primary Education Department of 2014-2015 academic year, form the setting for the research. 318 candidate teacher has been chosen as samples to represent the settings. Research data has been gathered by using a ‘Scale For Defining Views on The Evolutıon Theory’ that was prepared by the researches. Research findings indicate that candidate students are theologically and scientifically indecisive about the evolution theory. Considering the variables of findings,it is understood that there is a meaningful difference according to be variable of ideology and conservative teachers opposed the evolutıon theory more than others;there is a meaningful difference according to the academic department and candidate science teachers on the evolution theory does not posses a meaningful difference but scientifically, there is a meaningful difference between the opinions. According to the gender variable, it was found that the opinions of the teacher candidates have meaningful difference in terms of theology
Keywords
candidates teachers,evolution,evolution theory
