To what extent do preservice teachers feel ready to teach? A case study in the Master’s Degree in Teaching in Secondary Education

Teacher-training programs around the world, and especially in Europe do not specify detail capacities that future professionals should acquire, so it brings about a great discussion among educators, researchers teachers. The main objective of this study is to collect impressions Secondary Education teachers as regards competences attained during their studies. self-evaluation 353 students was carried out using Likert-scale questionnaire made up by 13 variables gathered into three dimensions namely social competence, academic competence personal competence. R Software, InfoStats SPSS v. 25 software were used order analyze data collected. Confirmatory factorial analyses linear mixed modelling applied identify factors affecting acquisition competences. students’ area knowledge employment situation key development competences, while dimension affected only knowledge. These results obviously show there are some whose level could be improved, we have also identified weaknesses certain In addition, these allowed us assess strengths initial teacher-training curriculum.