Evaluation of the Training to Make Preservice Science Teachers Use Web 2.0 Tools during Teaching

Abstract

This study examines the effect of a training program on pre-service teachers' ability to design materials using Web 2.0 tools by applying training to pre-service science teachers to use Web 2.0 tools. In the research, a holistic single case study method was used. Semi-structured interviews, “Teachers' Digital Teaching Material Development Self-Efficacy Scale” and document analysis were used as data collection tools. The sample of the research consists of 16 pre-service science teachers studying in the Science teaching program of the Faculty of Education of Recep Tayyip Erdogan University in the fall semester of the academic year 2021-2022. The "Teachers' Digital Teaching Material Development Self-Efficacy Scale" was applied to the pre-service teachers twice as a pre- and post-test. The training for the teaching of Web 2.0 tools was completed during a total of 25 40-minute lessons outside of the participants' class hours and in three weeks. At the end of the study, improved teaching Web 2.0 tools for education, pre-service teachers teaching material that has a positive impact on developing digital competencies, to increase their awareness of Web 2.0 tools for use in the learning process, it provides enough about to be able to use Web 2.0 tools to start to see and realize the importance of the concept of Web 2.0 tools in teaching that the use is concluded. In accordance with these results, in order to use the Web 2.0 tools for research, pre-service teachers, elective courses in undergraduate programs, etc. the proposals have been terminated.