Comparison of Pre-service Teachers and Teachers Self-efficacy Beliefs

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The purpose of the present study is to investigate pre-service teachers and teachers' self-efficacy beliefs in relation to some variables.For this purpose, the present study was designed as a descriptive study employing a general survey model.The universe of the study consists of teachers working in a city of Anatolia in Turkey and fourth-year students from the departments of classroom teacher education, science and technology teacher education, Turkish language teaching and physical education teacher education of the education faculty at a university located in the same city in 2014-2015 academic year.The sampling of the study included 249 teachers and 105 pre-service teachers.The findings of the study revealed that the pre-service teachers' self-efficacy beliefs do not vary significantly depending on their gender and whether they attend day-time or evening-time classes; yet, their selfefficacy beliefs vary significantly depending on the department attended and reasons for professional preferences.On the other hand, on the teachers' self-efficacy beliefs, both gender and educational statues do not have a significant impact; however, professional seniority significantly affects their self-efficacy beliefs.Moreover, it was found that the participants of both groups have same level of self-efficacy perceptions of their profession.Keywords: teacher,