The Viewpoints of Instructors about the Effects of Teacher Education Programs on Prospective Teachers’ Affective Characteristics*

Article History: Purpose: The affective skills in teacher education should pay attention and look for ways to include feelings, attitudes and beliefs of teachers in the discussion of effective teachers’ competencies. This paper aims to reveal the perspectives of instructors about the teacher characteristics that prospective teachers will gain after taking the teacher education, and to uncover how these characteristics are related to the affective domain. Research Methods: A survey design was employed in this paper. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used to analyze the range of data collected. In the quantification of data from survey questionnaires, frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviations provided some general patterns in the data. The qualitative data gathered by open ended questions were analyzed by content analysis. Received: 19 December 2015 Received in revised form: 16 May 2016 Accepted: 23 April 2017 DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.14689/ejer.2017.70.6