Factors that affect teacher candidates’ attitudes and successes towards biology

The aim of this study is to determine factors that affect teacher candidates’ attitudes and successes towards biology and to search if there is a relationship between attitude and success or not. “Attitude Scale Towards Biology” and “Personal Information Form” were used to gather data. Findings indicated that there is a significance change in teacher candidates’ attitude points towards biology according to type of graduated school and also there is a significance change in success points towards biology according to age, graduated school, graduation degree and mother job. Morever, it was found that there were significance and positive relationship between the attitudes and successes of teacher candidates toward general biology.