INVESTIGATION OF PROSPECTIVE SCIENCE TEACHERS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS COMPUTERS IN TERMS OF DIFFERENT VARIABLES

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate prospective science teachers' attitudes towards computers in terms of gender, general academic achievement and grade level. This is a descriptive field survey. The study group of the research comprised of totally 226 students attending the Science Teaching Department of Education Faculty, Kırşehir Ahi Evran University. "Attitude Scale towards Computers" and "Demographic Information Form" were used as data collection tools. In the analysis of the data, descriptive statistics, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA and Pearson correlation coefficient were used. At the end of the study, teachers' attitudes towards computers were determined as in medium level. On the other hand, it was found out that prospective teachers' points of attitudes towards computers differed significantly according to gender and grade level. In addition, it was determined that the teachers' points of attitudes towards computers didn't differ significantly according to general academic achievement. It was revealed that there were high and medium-level positive relationships between prospective teachers' points of attitudes towards computers and gender, grade level and academic achievement.