Epistemological beliefs of teacher candidates

The purpose of this study is to find out the epistemological beliefs of the teacher candidates attending fourth grade at the Faculty of Education associated to A.I.B.U. The data of the research was gathered by using "Epistemological Belief Scale" developed by Deryakulu and Buyukozturk (2002). The scale consists of three sub-dimensions related with 35 items. 438 students were included in the research sample. In the analysis of the data, average, standard deviation, Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis were applied. The findings of the study are as follows: (1) Teacher candidates' epistemological beliefs didn't show a significant difference according to the education type and sex variables at any sub-dimensions. (2) Teacher candidates' belief of Learning Depends on Effort didn't show a significant difference according to the department variable but their belief of Learning Depends on Ability and belief of There is Only One Unchanging Truth showed a significant difference according to the department variable.