Year: 2014
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: In this research, it was aimed to determine attitudes of prospective elementary school teachers who will teach writing with the cursive handwriting towards cursive handwriting.This research was carried out by using quantitative research method and causal-comparative model.To determine attitudes of prospective elementary school teachers towards cursive handwriting "Cursive Handwriting Attitude Scale" (CHAS) was developed by researchers.The scale developed was applied to 236 prospective elementary school teachers who study in Fırat and İnönü Universities.Mann Whitney U-test and Kruskal Wallis H-test which are the nonparametric tests were used to analyze the data obtained from the study.Based on the results of this study, attitude towards reading the texts which are written in cursive handwriting points of prospective elementary teachers are higher than their attitude towards writing in cursive handwriting points and beliefs about the function of cursive handwriting points.The attitude points towards cursive handwriting don't differ statistically in terms of the variables which are gender, grade, duration of using cursive handwriting, and overall grade point average.
DOI: 10.17679/iuefd.78021
Authors: İlhan ERDEM, Ferat YILMAZ, Eyüp BOZKURT
Institutions: Inonu University, Dicle University, Fırat University
Language: Turkish
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1508698265