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2003

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Çatak, Melek

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The purposes of the study were to investigate the technological background of 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students with respect to school type, gender, and grade level and to examine the effects of school type, gender, and grade level on 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students' attitudes toward technology. The research was conducted on 569 students. The number of subjects in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students were 196, 181, and 192 respectively. According to gender, the number of girls and boys were 260 and 309 respectively. To obtain necessary data of this study, the following measuring instruments were utilized: 1. Questionnaire on Use of Technology (QoUT); 2. Attitude Toward Technology Scale (ATTS). QoUT was developed by the researchers. ATTS was developed and, its validity and reliability were tested by the researchers. The data of this study were analyzed by finding frequencies of responses to given questions in QoUT and Three- Way Analysis of Variances. The results of the study indicated that: 1. There was no great difference between students attending a school with IT class and students attending a school without an IT class with respect to technological mbackground. 2. There was no important difference between girls and boys with respect to technological background. 3. There were little differences among 6l grade, 7l grade, and 8th grade students with respect to technological background. 4. There was no great difference between schools with an IT class and schools without an IT class with respect to use of instructional technology in mathematics, social science, natural science and foreign language lessons. In both types of schools, course materials were the most commonly used tools. 5. There were no significant differences among the mean scores of students attending a school with an information technology (IT) class, and those attending a school without an IT class with respect to attitudes toward technology. However, the students attending a school with an information technology class better scored than those attending a school without an information technology class.6. There was no significant difference between the mean scores of girls and boys in terms of attitudes toward technology. However, the girls scored better than the boys. 7. There was no statistically significant difference between the mean scores of 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students' attitudes toward technology. However, the 7th grade students had the highest score, the 6th grade students had the second highest score, and the 8th grade students had the lowest score. 8. There was interaction between school type and gender with respect to attitudes toward technology. 9. There were no interactions between school type- grade level and gender- grade level with respect to attitudes toward technology.

Subject Keywords

Educational technology, Information technology, Technology, Information technology, Classroom, Technological background, Attitude toward technology, School type, Gender, Grade level

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/13309

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis