The effectiveness of teaching practice module in opinions of final-year student teachers

The aim of the study is obtained student teachers’ perceptions of practicum module. Practicum is a module that provides activities for teaching profession and through which student teachers gain skills and experiences as well as form their teaching discourses for teaching profession at the pre-service level. Practicum takes place in the schools that are governed by the Ministry of Education affecting student teachers’ professional learning significantly. The feedback taken from the student teachers just after they taught is an important indication for the effectiveness and evaluation of the practicum module. Their skills and knowledge in terms of pre- and post-practicum periods are compared. The research sample is 4th.-year (senior) student teachers from the department of Turkish teaching of Erciyes University Education Faculty; end the department of primary teaching of Agrı Education Faculty. Assessment is carried out by using the ‘Form of Practicum Assessment’ and chi-square test on SPSS software. Our results indicate that there are some significant differences between pre- and postpracticum periods in terms of student teachers’ perception of practicum module.