A study on the relationship between pre-service teachers’ information literacy skills and their attitudes towards distance education

2009
Özdemir, Soner Mehmet
Akbaş, Oktay
Çakır, Recep
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his paper presents the relationship between pre-service teachers' information literacy skills and their attitudes towards distance education. Two questionnaires were administered to 235 pre-service teachers enrolled in the department of primary school teaching, the department of science teaching and the department of Turkish language teaching at Kirikkale University in Turkey in order to examine their attitudes and their literacy skills. Results of this study show that there is no significant relationship between participants' information literacy levels and their attitudes towards distance learning.
Information literacy, Distance education, Preservice teachers, Attitude
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/58118
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S. M. Özdemir, O. Akbaş, and R. Çakır, “A study on the relationship between pre-service teachers’ information literacy skills and their attitudes towards distance education,” 2009, vol. 1, p. 1648, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/58118.
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