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The aim of the research is to determine the self-efficacy perceptions of secondary school students towards Turkish lesson and to evaluate self-efficacy perceptions in terms of gender and grade level variables. This research has aimed to reveal an existing situation was conducted according to the survey model. The sample of the study has consisted of 249 students studying (in 5-8 grades) at a secondary school in Giresun city center. The data are collected with the Turkish Self-Efficacy Perception Scale developed by Durukan and Maden (2012). In the analysis of the obtained data, the arithmetic means in the analysis of the self-efficacy averages; t test is used for gender variable and one-way analysis of variance is used to test the grade level variable. At the end of the research, it has been found that middle school students' perceptions of Turkish self-efficacy (generally and always) are not at a good level and corresponded to an indecisive and therefore uncertain range. In addition, Although the female students' self-efficacy is higher than the boys, the difference between them is not at a level that can make a difference and the grade level and is an effective variable on self-efficacy perception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between the attitudes of the senior students of the Faculty of Theology toward teaching profession and their academic self-efficacy. The study group consists of 209 senior students in the Faculty of Theology at Sinop University. According to the results of the research, while students' attitudes towards teaching profession are quite high, their perceptions of academic self-efficacy are moderate. In addition, there is a positive and statistically significant correlation between students' professional attitudes and academic self-efficacy. (r= 0.26; p = 0.000). There is a statistically significant relationship between the attitude towards teaching profession and the type of secondary education that is graduated, the profession to be done after graduation, and the reason for choosing the faculty. No statistically significant relationship was found between the attitude towards teaching profession and the variables of gender, economic status, place of residence, preparatory reading status and students' averages. Also, no statistically significant difference was found between the students' self-efficacy score and gender, the economic income, the place of residence, the type of secondary education graduated, preparatory reading, the reason for choosing the faculty, the profession required and the grade point average. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to examine the self-efficacy percetion of students at secondary and high school towards the written examination by different variables.In this research, general survey model has been used. To determine the self efficacy of 305 students,a 5 point likert scale which has 25 items has been used. T-test, one way of variance (ANOVA) analysis have been used to find out If there is a significant difference between the descriptive variables such as gender, the grades of students and graduation levelof parents.The research shows that there is a meaningful difference .The results showed that gender and father's education level was influential on self-efficacy perceptions of students in written examinations; grades of students, mother's education level was not effective on self-efficacy perception of students in written examinations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]