Abstract:

This investigation was conducted to evaluate the pre-school teacher candidates studing in the Preschool Education Departmant, in terms of their attitudes to computer-aided education toward various variables. The universe of study is constituted by the candidate teachers studying in formal education programs at the Department of Pre-School Education in the Faculties of Education of Fırat and Inonu Universities. And the research sample is constituted by a total of 200 candidates of teacher in classes 3 and 4 at these universities. 100 students have participated from each school. The data were obtained through questionnaires completed by teachers. „Computer Assisted Education Attitudes Scale‟ was applied as survey which was provided by Arslan in the year 2006, in order to evaluate the attitudes of students towards computer aided education in preschool. Some demographic information about students was obtained by 'Personel Information Form' constituted by the authors. Descriptive Survey Model is used as method. Results were evaluated using the statistical package program. In data analysis, oneway ANOVA, t-Test were used. Consequently, attitudes towards computer aided education of pre-school teachers have been positive overall, but these attitudes were observed to vary depending on several variables.

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