Teacher candidates’ real success situation on computers and their attitudes towards computer technology in the faculties of education

Abstract

This study is aimed to research teacher candidates’ attitudes on computer technologies that are in their final year in the faculties of education and show their real success situation on computers to be able to study the results according to the variety of variables. The study group for the research was composed of 141 final year teacher candidate from Atatürk Teacher Training Academy (ATTA) 19, Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) 64, and The Near East University (NEU) 58 in North Cyprus. The teacher candidate's allocations according to their departments are as follows; Pre-School Teaching department (PST) 43, English Language Teaching department (ELT) 30, Turkish Language Teaching department (TLT) 34 and Guidance and Psychological Counseling department (GPC) 34. In this study, the following was used for analysis “Attitude Scale for Computer Technologies” (Alpha=0.86), “Personal Information form”, “Initial Computer and Technology Practice Exam Questions” and “An Evaluation Check List for the Practical Exam” prepared and developed by the researchers. As a result of this study, teacher candidates attitude towards computer technologies do not show any significant difference between the departments though, on the other hand, it has shown that positive and a high level. The teacher candidates correlation between their attitudes towards computer and real success has shown meaningful significance and positive guidance, but another factor that has shown importance in the result is the low level of relationship (r=0,254).