Abstract:

Nowadays (so called technology era) technological developments have entered every area of our life from health to education, from design to engineering and have become an indispensable part of our daily life. Education has been one of the areas most affected by technological developments. Traditional education has been replaced by technology-based education systems that shape education through the use of technological developments. The aim of this study is to examine the technological pedagogical content knowledge competencies of the prospective teachers of the classroom education in terms of gender, university, computer ownership, daily computer use period and class level variables. The study was carried out using a descriptive survey model among quantitative research methods. In this study the data collected by using the "Personal Information Form" created by the researcher and the "Technological and Pedagogical Content Information Scale for Classroom Teachers" consisting of 46 items in five-point likert type, developed by Schmidt, Baran, Thompson, Mishra, Koehler and Shin (2009) and adapted to Turkish by Kaya and Dağ (2013) was interpreted by using t-test in SPSS 23 package program, and one-way ANOVA analysis. This study was carried out with a total of 366 primary school teacher candidates (260 female, 106 male) studying at Republic University and Gaziosmanpaşa University. There was no significant difference according to the university variable, but significant differences were found between the variables of gender, computer ownership, daily computer use time and class levels. The following suggestions can be given in the light of the research results. This research was conducted on teacher candidates. A similar study can be done on teachers. In addition, this research was conducted with quantitative research method. The same research can be repeated with different teacher candidates by using qualitative research method (observation, case study, interview, document analysis, etc.). The study was carried out in universities that were geographically and culturally close to each other. This study can be done in universities located in different regions of Turkey and re-examined in order to find any significant differences according to the university variable.

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