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This study examines the opinions of middle and high school students regarding the distance education activities applied during the COVID-19 pandemic period by gender and class-grade levels. The method of the study is the survey model from descriptive research methods. Participants are 1514 students studying at the middle (839) and high school (675) school level in the 2019-2020 academic year. The data were collected by the "Distance Education Opinion Scale" (DEOS) prepared by Bozdağ, Türkoguz, and Ok (2021) in an online survey server of "Google Forms'. The total and sub-dimensions' scores of DEOS were compared with descriptive analysis methods according to gender and class-grade levels variables. Consequently, the total and sub-dimensions' scores of DEOS was not significant according to gender. However, the scores of female students for UEGO's test items of "the suitability of EBA TV course hours in distance education" and "the adequacy of course time" were slightly higher than male students. Additionally, the scores of the DEOS’ proficiency, learning and attitude sub-dimensions varied significantly according to the 6,7 and 8th-grade levels of the middle school. Moreover, there was a significant difference the score of the DEOS’ the proficiency and learning sub-dimensions in favor of the 9th-grade level of high school. These results showed that students' exam anxiety and grade levels could play an important role to plan distance education. For this reason, the planning of instruction schedule in distance education should be arranged with the teachers according to the affective features of the students and their grade levels.

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