Investigation pre-service turkish language teachers’ curiosity and exploring levels in terms of some variables

This research is aiming to analyze the curiosity and the level of exploring and the changing effects of this level for the pre-service Turkish language teachers. Survey model, which is one of the quantitative research designs, was used in the research. Target population of the research constitutes the students from the Department of Turkish Education in University of Bayburt. As data collection tool Curiosity and Exploring Scope II and to determine the socio-demographic quality of the students Personal Information Form (PIF) was used. Data of the research were collected online on a voluntary basis. Inferential quantitative statistics were used in the analysis of the data. Since the data set, which was acquired in the survey, didn’t ensure normal distribution nonparametric tests Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis were used in the in the analysis of data. In the consequence of the survey curiosity and level of exploring of the pre-service teachers weren’t discovered any differences according to their genders, class grades, ages, and education level of their parents, income level of their families and geographical area they live in.