Determining Prospective Elementary Teachers' Attitudes Towards Computer: A Sample from Turkey

The aim of this study is to determine prospective elementary teachers' attitudes towards computers. This research was carried out in fall semester of 2007 at a small university in northeastern Turkey with 248 prospective elementary teachers. In order to get general results about the sample surv...

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Main Authors: S. Birisci (Author), M. Metin (Author), M. Karakas (Author)
Format: Book
Published: University of Sofia, 2009-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Summary:The aim of this study is to determine prospective elementary teachers' attitudes towards computers. This research was carried out in fall semester of 2007 at a small university in northeastern Turkey with 248 prospective elementary teachers. In order to get general results about the sample survey methodology was used. Results show that computer attitudes of prospective elementary teachers are at medium level. No significant differences were found between gender, high school type and monthly family income independent variables and computer liking, computer anxiety and use of computers in education/instruction sub-scales. However, a significant difference was found between high school type and computer anxiety and computers in education/instruction sub-scales.
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