“…Other than these, 2006 research results on the ECTEC were another driving force. The common criticism of international comparative studies (Aras & Sözen, 2012;Aykaç, 2018), comprehensive studies with Turkish samples (Haktanır, Dağlıoğlu, & Güler, 2010), and studies with small samples of ECTEC students (Dereobalı & Ünver, 2009;Özder, Konedralı, & Sabancıgil, 2013;Şahin, Kartal & İmamoğlu, 2013;Uysal, Özen-Altınkaynak, Taşkın, Akman, Dinçer, 2016) and ECE teachers (Ağgül-Yalçın & Yalçın, 2018;Özkut & Kaya, 2012;Öztürk, Zayimoğlu-Öztürk, & Kaya, 2016) was that the 2006 ECTEC was poor on practicum.…”