An assessment of pre-service teacher education program in relation to technology training for future practice : a case of primary school teacher education program, Burdur

Date

2004

Author

Toker, Sacip

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The purpose of the study is to reveal pre-service teachers̕ technology competencies during their four-year teacher training program at Burdur School of Education, Süleyman Demirel University in Turkey. The sample size is 1086 students from Primary School Teacher Education department. 262 is 1st year, 269 is 2nd year, 288 is 3rd year, and 265 is 4th year students. 435 are males, and 644 are females. The research design is non-experimental survey. Technology Use Self-Competency scale (TUSS) was used for the study. Reliability of the instrument is .96. The study is indicated that most of the pre-service teachers felt themselves as intermediate technology user. The descriptive, correlation, regression and higher-way ANOVA are applied. Gender, years of computer use and computer ownership and having access to internet variables are associated with significantly to technology use self-competency scores. Also the most useful predictor of technology use self competency is years of computer use. Finally, there is significant difference among categories of computer ownership and internet access, gender, years of computer on technology use self-competency. The recommendations and directions to future researches are presented.

Subject Keywords

Teacher Training in Universities and Colleges.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605345/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/14476

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Theses