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Using technology increases day by day very fast and teachers will transfer it to training environment. In order to use technology in education and training, first teachers must develop a positive attitude towards the technology themselves. There are many factors which can be affect pre-service teachers' attitudes towards technology. One of them is meta-cognition that is higher than the normal cognitive strategies and provide to be aware of events in the process of the information and the other is epistemological beliefs that is expressing individuals’ faith towards knowledge. Purpose of this study is to examine the contribution of epistemological beliefs and metacognition to the technological attitude of pre-service primary school teachers’. This is a research-based study. Data are gathered by applying technological attitude, metacognition and epistemological beliefs scales on 331 students from 3 different faculty of educations. Multiple regression analysis is used to analyze data. According to the results, epistemological beliefs and metacognition has a statistically significant contribution to the prediction of technological attitude of pre-service primary school teachers’. Additionally, the fact that the adjusted R² value was 0,227 shows that 22,7 % of the change in pre-service teachers’ technological attitude is explained within the independent variables.

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