Abstract:

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether gender was a great factor with regard to the motivational level of pre-service social studies teachers who designed webQuest-based applications in an instructional technologies and material design course. There were a total of 68 pre-service social studies teachers, 29 males and 39 females, involved in this study. The researchers used a likert-type questionnaire including of 34 negative and positive statements. This questionnaire designed to evaluate a situational measure of ones’ motivation was used as Pre-and-Posttests in the study that took place in 7 weeks. It was administered to the participants by the researchers before and after the instruction during a single class period. In the analysis of the quantitative data, the independent-samples t-test, the paired-samples t-test and ANCOVA with ? = .05 were employed. The study reported that there was no statistically significant difference found in regard to motivational level between male and female pre-service social studies teachers who designed webQuest- based applications.

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