Suggestions
In line with the research findings, the following suggestions can be provided for further research and
researchers.
This research study is limited to pre-service mathematics teachers enrolled in the senior grade of
Primary Mathematics Education in the Faculty of Education and the graduates of Mathematics in
the Faculty of Science and Letters who take teaching formation courses at a university in Istanbul.
Therefore, further research studies to be conducted with similar samples in Turkey would provide
more explicit findings for pre-service mathematics teachers.
Whether pre-service mathematics teachers’ attitudes towards teaching differ or not in terms of
gender can be explored with further qualitative research studies.
Whether pre-service teachers’ attitudes towards the profession of teaching are influenced or not by
the type of high school and parents’ level of education can be explored with wider samples and
with a qualitative study in depth.
The teaching attitudes of pre-service mathematics teachers in the sample can be investigated with
other variables in addition to the variables used in this study.
According to this research study, there were significant differences in favor of the graduates of the
Education faculty and teacher training high schools in the sub-dimension of harmony. Since the
students of the Education faculty are also the graduates of teacher training high schools, it is not
certain whether the difference is due to high school or faculty. Therefore, the students of the
Education faculty who are not graduates of teacher training high schools can be compared to the
graduates of the Faculty of Science and Letters to test the result. Thus, the role of teacher training
high schools can be made more explicit.