PRESERVICE PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS TEACHERS’ EVALUATIONS OF MENTOR TEACHERS’ MENTORING SKILLS
SPORMETRE BEDEN EĞİTİMİ VE SPOR BİLİMLERİ DERGİSİ, cilt.24, sa.1, ss.186-197, 2026 (TRDizin)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 24 Sayı: 1
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Doi Numarası: 10.33689/spormetre.1774441
- Dergi Adı: SPORMETRE BEDEN EĞİTİMİ VE SPOR BİLİMLERİ DERGİSİ
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: SportDiscus, Education Source Ultimate (EBSCO), Central & Eastern European Academic Source (CEEAS), Education Abstracts, EBSCO Education Source, Directory of Open Access Journals, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.186-197
- Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
The purpose of this study is to determine how physical education and sports pre-service teachers evaluate the mentoring skills of mentor teachers involved in the teaching practice process and to examine whether these evaluations differ according to the variables of department, professional seniority, and mentoring experience. The study group consisted of 211 preservice teachers enrolled in the teaching practicum course at various universities. Data were collected using the Mentoring Skills Assessment Tool (MEBDA) developed by Aslan, Dinçer, and Akçamete (2019). The data were analyzed using SPSS 24, employing descriptive statistics, the Kruskal–Wallis H test, post-hoc Mann–Whitney U tests, and Cronbach’s alpha reliability coefficients. The findings revealed that preservice teachers positively evaluated their cooperating teachers’ mentoring skills in the areas of communication, teaching–learning, and professional development processes. In addition, it was found that Recreation department students evaluated the mentoring skills of cooperating teachers more positively compared to students from the Physical Education and Sports Teaching and Sports Management departments. On the other hand, no significant differences were observed with respect to the cooperating teachers’ Professional seniority or duration of mentoring experience.