Improving Efficacy of Pre-Service Teachers in Educational Research Through Peer Review Process

The purpose of the present research was to examine the effect of peer review on educational research efficacy of pre-service teachers. A quasi-experimental design with a pretest-posttest control group was adopted, over a period of 12 weeks using peer review process in the experimental group and lecture-based teaching in the control group. The participants of the research consisted of pre-service teachers (n = 118), enrolled in the faculty of education of a middle scale public university in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. In collection of the data, “Self-Efficacy for Research Scale of Teachers” (SCRT), was used to examine pre-service teachers’ efficacy in educational research. According to the results, it was revealed that the experimental group in which the peer review process was conducted outperformed in the efficacy in educational research, compared to the control group. This result showed that peer review was more effective in the improvement of efficacy of pre-service teachers in educational research than the lecture-based teaching.