The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between the individual innovativeness of preservice teachers and their competencies in techno-pedagogical education. The sample group for the research comprised a total of 389 pre-service teachers, 288 of which were female (74%) and 101 (26%) of which were male, selected from the senior students of 10 different teacher training programs in the Faculty of Education of Trakya University during the spring term of the 20112012 academic year. The Techno-pedagogical Education Competency Scale developed by Kabakçı Yurdakul, Odabaşı, Kılıçer, Çoklar, Birinci and Kurt (2012), and the Individual Innovativeness scale developed by Hurt, Joseph and Cook (1977) and adopted into Turkish culture by Kılıçer and Odabaşı (2010), were used for the research. The results showed that the individual innovativeness of the pre-service teachers fell under the early-majority category; while no significant difference was found between individual innovativeness and competency in techno-pedagogical education with the gender variable. It was determined from the research that the techno-pedagogical education competencies of the pre-service teachers were in the advanced level. The findings of the research revealed a positive and moderate relationship between the individual innovativeness of pre-service teachers and their competency in techno-pedagogical education.
Key words: individual innovativeness, technopedagogical education competency, pre-service teacher
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