The Relationship between Teacher's Episte mological Beliefs and their Teaching Orientations

The primary purpose of this study was to identify the epistemological beliefs and orientations toward teaching and to explain the relation between them among secondary school teachers in Khorasan Razavi province (N=14643) who were teaching in 2010-11 academic year. By using Schommer Epistemological Questionnaire (1998) and Samuelowicz’s revised Orientations toward Teaching Questionnaire (1999). This study was conducted through survey technique on 403 teachers. The results showed that 53% of teachers hold naïve epistemological beliefs and 55% of them follow the teaching-centered orientation, and there was a significant negative relationship between their epistemological beliefs and orientations toward teaching.