The aim of this research is to determine the prospective elementary teachers’ perceptions about the concept of ‘research assistants’ through metaphors. This research was designed as phenomenological study which is a kind of qualitative research. The participants of this research are 142 prospective elementary teachers who study at Dicle University Ziya Gökalp Education Faculty Department of Elementary School Teaching. To analyze the data obtained from this study, content analyzing technique was used. The results of this study reveal that prospective elementary teachers used 61 different metaphors about the concept of research assistants. These 61 metaphors were collected under six categories. It was concluded that prospective elementary teachers, generally, consubstantiate the concept of research assistant with positive metaphors. The most used metaphors in this research are the student, teacher, artist, porter, laborer and researcher.