Cultural Intellegence Level of Turkish Teacher Candidates in Globalized World (Küreselleşen Dünyada Türk Öğretmen Adaylarının Kültürel Zekâ Seviyeleri)..... Doi: 10.14686/buefad.v4i2.5000131990

Abstract

This study aims to examine and explore the cultural intellengence level of teacher candidates in a descriptive manner. It also tries to show whether the cultural intelligence level is associated with the socio-demographics of the participants such as parent's education, gender, the department they enrolled, and the hometown region. Participants of the study were 450 teacher candidates enrolled in the teacher education program at a university in Turkey on 2014-2015 academic years. Data were gathered through Cultural Intelligence Scale developed by Ang et al. in 2007 adapted to Turkish and assessed its psychometrics properties by Ilhan and Cetin in 2014. The gathered data are examined through a couple of steps including univariate information about the computed and recoded variables by showing tabulation and simple data presentation. It then presents the mean comparison of the cultural intelligence level variables based on the socio-demographics of participants and the bivariate analyses of cultural intelligence level and socio-demographic variables using correlation coefficient method (Pearson's r). Regarding the mean comparison of the participants' cultural intellinge scores, this study determined some differences among teacher candidates based on their gender and department they study. Also, looking at the results of the Pearson correlation coefficients, this study identified some significant relationships between some socio-demographics and cultural intelligence scores of the candidates.