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Publication Date: 2012
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Effects of Educational Beliefs on Attitudes towards Using Computer Technologies
Onen, Aysem Seda
Hacettepe University Journal of Education, v43 p353-361 2012
This study, aiming to determine the relationship between pre-service teachers' beliefs about education and their attitudes towards utilizing computers and internet, is a descriptive study in scanning model. The sampling of the study consisted of 270 pre-service teachers. The potential relationship between the beliefs of pre-service teachers about education and their attitudes towards using computers and internet was analyzed and the results were evaluated. The study concluded that there are positive significant relationships between pre-service teachers' beliefs about education and their attitudes towards using internet and computers. It was found that there are positive significant relations also between the progressivism, reconstructionism and existentialism sub-dimensions of the scale of beliefs about education and their attitudes towards computers. Additionally, the attitudes of pre-service teachers towards using internet and the progressivism, reconstructionism and existentialism sub-dimensions of the scale of beliefs about education were found to have positive significant relationships. (Contains 3 tables.)
Descriptors: Philosophy, Measures (Individuals), Internet, Student Teacher Attitudes, Correlation, Preservice Teachers, Educational Attitudes, Computer Attitudes, Computer Uses in Education, Rating Scales, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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