Important Physical Characteristics for Quality Teacher Education: The Delphi Study

Authors : Dürdane LafcıTor

Pages : 23-33

Doi:10.32433/eje.360591

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Publication Date : 2017-12-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The main purposes of this study were to identify the essential characteristics of physical environment to access quality teacher education and to discuss the importance and role of these physical characteristics for effective and efficient teacher education. A Delphi study with three phases was utilized as a research methodology. In the first phase of the study, data was obtained by one open ended question from 33 teacher candidates in four universities at Ankara and content analysis was used to analysis data. Then, the questionnaire developed according to the results of the first phase, was applied in two times in a one month internal. Data obtained by the second and the third phases of the study was analyzed by descriptive analysis and comparison between two applications was presented. As a result of the study, technology, ambient environment of the building and classrooms, the cleanliness of environment, the size of the classrooms, furniture and materials, spaces for social and academic activity were emerged as the most important physical characteristics and the importance and role of these physical characteristics were discussed in the paper.
Keywords : Delphi study, teacher education

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