Öğretim Elemanlarının Bilimsel Tutum Düzeyleri

Abstract

This descriptive study is aimed to determine the scientific attitude levels of academics who are working in different fields at universities. The Scale of Instructors’ Scientific Attitudes was used in order to obtain data. The research population is 6807 academics working at four public universities and two foundation universities in Izmir/Türkiye. The research sample includes 678 in total, 341 women, 337 men at these universities. The SPSS Statistics 23 programme was used for analysis. The data has been analyzed by using arithmetic mean, standard deviation, t- Test, and One-Way ANOVA hen the difference was found significant and LSD Test of Significance were used in order to determine which groups create differences. Scientific attitude levels of academics vary according to titles, university type and their fields. Accordingly, while academic titles progress, the level of scientific attitude also increases. Regarding levels of scientific attitudes, the findings were discussed in favor of instructors working at state universities and in the fields of communication technology, natural sciences and mathematics.