Abstract:

The aim of our research is to determine the perceptions of teachers working in different levels of public schools affiliated to the Ministry of National Education regarding the distance education process, which was passed suddenly and intensely after the Covid-19 epidemic, according to different variables. It is a research in descriptive survey model. The study group of the research consists of 1938 teachers working in public schools affiliated to the Ministry of National Education in Istanbul in the 2020-2021 academic year. The data of the research were collected with the "Perception Scale for Distance Education" developed by Gök and Kılıç Çakmak (2020). The attitudes and sub-dimensions of the teachers in the sample towards distance education were analyzed according to demographic information. In general, it was determined that while teachers' perceptions of distance education were at "moderate" level, the dimension related to basic perception was at "low" level, the dimension regarding access to resources was at "medium" level, and the dimension regarding education and training planning was at "high" level. While teacher perceptions differ in terms of education and planning in the gender variable, they do not show any difference in the variable for education levels. In addition, while the professional experience variable differs in all sub-dimensions, it does not differ in the school type variable.

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