Öğretmen Adaylarının Bilgisayar Destekli Eğitime Yönelik Tutumları ile Epistemolojik İnançları Arasındaki İlişkinin İncelenmesi

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between teacher candidates' attitudes towards computer assisted instruction and their epistemological beliefs. In line with this aim, the study was conducted based on correlative survey method. The participants of the study were 386 teacher candidates enrolled at the department of Primary School Education in Ataturk Faculty of Education, Marmara University during the Fall Semester of 2012-2013 academic year. The Attitude Scale towards Computer Assisted Instruction developed by Arslan and the Epistemological Beliefs Scale developed by Schommer and adapted to Turkish by Deryakulu and Buyukozturk were used as data collection instruments. The data collected were analyzed through Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient and stepwise regression using SPSS 20.0 package program. The results of the study indicate that there was a statistically significant relationship between the teacher candidates' attitudes towards computer-assisted instruction, their beliefs on that learning was based on efforts, and that teaching was based on skills. The relationship between the teacher candidates' attitudes towards computer based instruction and their beliefs that there was only one truth was not found to be statistically significant. Moreover, it was determined in the study that the teacher candidates' beliefs towards the nature of learning could account for 21% of attitudes towards computer assisted instruction. The findings were discussed in the light of the related literature.