Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to examine the level of attitudes of teacher candidates towards instructional technology and material design course and whether they differ according to various variables. The researche universe consists of teacher candidates who have taken the course of Instructional Technology and Material Design, who are studying at the Education Faculties in universities in Istanbul, and teacher candidates who are trained in pedagogical formation. The sample of the research consists of a total of 420 teacher candidates , including 183 teacher candidates and 237 pedagogical training students who have taken a course in Instructional Technology and Material Design at a faculty of education in a state and a foundation university in Istanbul. Descriptive scanning model was used in the study. "Attitude Scale Towards Instructional Technology and Material Design Course" was used in the research. Arithmetic mean, percentage, frequency, Mann Whitney U Test and Kruskall Wallis H Test were applied in the analysis of the data. As a result of the data analysis, it was observed that the teacher candidates’ attitudes towards instructional technologies and material design course were moderate in the enjoyment and denial subscales, higher in the subscale of utility and overall average. While the attitudes of the teacher candidates towards the instructional technologies and material design course do not show any significant difference according to variables of the gender, the class they studied and marital status; it shows a significant difference according to variables of the department of which he/she studies, age and pleasure state when he/she designs material.

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