Investigation of the Atti̇tudes of Pre-school Teacher Candi̇dates Towards the Use of Vi̇rtual Museums Accordi̇ng to Vari̇ous Vari̇ables
Year: 2022
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The aim of this study is to investigate the attitudes of pre-school teacher candidates towards the use of virtual museums according to various variables. Beside this purpose, the attitudes of pre-school teacher candidates towards the use of virtual museums were compared in terms of variables.like; gender, grade level, graduated secondary education institution, desire to do postgraduate education, mother's and father's education status.Because of this reason, this is a descriptive causal comparison research. The study group of the research consisted of 197 teacher candidates of Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University Preschool Education Department in the 2021-2022 academic year. The research was carried out over the study group and sampling was not used. In the study, the data was collected by using the "Attitude Scale Towards the Use of Virtual Museums". To determine the attitudes of pre-school teacher candidates towards the use of virtual museums, frequency (f), percentage (%), arithmetic mean (X̄) and standard deviation (SD) were used. For the causal comparison design, score distributions were examined to determine which statistics would be used to compare the means between groups. It was found that the score distributions didn’t exhibit normal distribution. Therefore, Mann-Whitney U Test was used for the comparison of the averages of the two groups, and the Kruskall Wallis Test was used for the comparison of the averages of more than two groups to determine whether the attitudes of pre-school teacher candidates towards the use of virtual museums differ according to the determined demographic characteristics. As a result, it was found that the pre-school teacher candidates' attitudes towards the use of virtual museums were at a high level. As the variables of gender, grade level, desire to get postgraduate education and father's education level did not create a significant difference in determining attitudes towards virtual museum use; the type of high school that pre-service teachers graduated from and their mother's education level created a significant difference in their attitudes towards the use of virtual museums.
Source: DergiPark (Istanbul University)
Authors: EKER, Cevat, KILAV, Diren
Institution: Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University
Language: Turkish
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4313356624