Investigating Attitudes of Social Sciences Pre-Service Teachers Towards Using Technology

Autor: KAYA, Mehmet Tamer, GÖKDEMİR, Abdullah, YAZICI, Sibel
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Volume: 3, Issue: 1 1-5
International Technology and Education Journal
ISSN: 2602-2885
Popis: The aim of the current study is to investigate the attitudes of Social Studies teacher candidates towards usingtechnology. The participants of this study, which was designed as survey study, consisted of 150 1st year and 4thyear teacher candidates from Social Studies Teaching Department at Education Faculty in Afyon KocatepeUniversity in 2017-2018 Fall term. The data were collected by using Technology Attitude Scale (Teknoloji TutumÖlçeği; Yavuz, 2005). The collected data were analyzed through descriptive statistics and Independent SamplesT-test. According to the findings of the study, it can be concluded that Social Studies teacher candidates hadpositive attitudes towards technology use. The results also demonstrated that Social Studies teacher candidates’attitudes towards using technology had a statistically significant relationship in terms of gender in favor of males.On the other hand, educational level did not correlate with the attitudes of Social Studies teacher candidatestowards using technology.
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