Determination of attitudes of students teachers towards the utilization of technology: creating a technology tree

This study involves an alternative statistical evaluation process of an assessment tool, which had previously been evaluated through factor analysis, regarding determination of the attitudes of student teachers, who receive education in Turkey, towards the utilization of technology. The previously p...

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Published in:Procedia, social and behavioral sciences social and behavioral sciences, 2009, Vol.1 (1), p.2032-2037
Main Authors: Yücel, A. Seda, Koçak, Canan
Format: Article
Language:English
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Attitudes
Technology
Technology tree
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Summary:This study involves an alternative statistical evaluation process of an assessment tool, which had previously been evaluated through factor analysis, regarding determination of the attitudes of student teachers, who receive education in Turkey, towards the utilization of technology. The previously prepared 50 items were evaluated in this study according to the Classification Tree method, which is one of the multi-variable statistical analysis methods. A classification of 31 leaves was created. All 31 items of the obtained Technology Tree reflected the positive and negative attitudes of student teachers of chemistry towards the utilization of technology as well as their technological consciousness. Additionally, the researchers emphasize that such a scale would serve as a guiding tool that could be applied to other groups with other social status and classes.
ISSN:1877-0428
1877-0428
DOI:10.1016/j.sbspro.2009.01.357