Education Themed Movies as a Teaching Resource for Pre-Service Science Teacher Education

Educational media has the potential to foster pre-service science teacher education in many ways. The purpose of this study was to explore the possibility of using selected movies as an educational media and resource for pre-service science teacher education as an extracurricular activity, and therefore five selected movies were used as a backbone for a seven-week training. The sample of the study consisted of 60 pre-service science teachers who attended this training. The data were collected through 3 instruments as pre and posttests. These are Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES), The Science Teaching Efficacy Belief Instrument (STEBI) and Draw-A-Science-Teacher-Test-Checklist (DASTT-C), respectively. For the first two instruments, a dependent t-test was carried out as a statistical procedure with SPSS. The DASTT-C drawings were evaluated according to its scoring sheet. The results indicated that there is a statistically significant increase in both pre-service science teachers’ efficacy beliefs and their science teaching efficacy beliefs based on our statistical analysis. Pre-service science teachers presented more student-centered instructional style qualifications after the training