The Results of T - Test for the Attitudes of It Pre - Service Teachers towards Teaching Profession and Their Humanistic Values According to Their

The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between the humanistic values of pre-service teachers of information technologies and their attitudes towards teaching profession. Moreover, the relationship between the teachers’ demographic information and their attitudes towards teaching profession and their humanistic values were also examined. The study group was composed of 218 pre-service teachers – 93 males and 125 females – enrolled in the Departments of Computer Education and Instructional Technologies at Necmettin Erbakan University and Trakya University. In the study, “The Scale for the Attitudes towards Teaching Profession”, “The Scale for Humanistic Values” and “Personal Information Form” were used. SPSS 15 package software was utilized during the data analysis and .05 was taken as the significance level. At the end of the study, it was found that the attitudes of pre-service teachers towards teaching profession was at medium level and there was a significant relationship between their attitudes towards teaching profession and their humanistic values. It was also determined that the pre-service teachers with higher attitudes towards teaching profession had higher humanistic values. In addition to this, female pre-service teachers had higher attitudes towards teaching profession and higher humanistic values when compared to the male pre-service teachers.