THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ATTITUDES OF PROSPECTIVE PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHERS TOWARDS EDUCATION TECHNOLOGIES AND COMPUTER SELF-EFFICACY BELIEFS     

ABSTRACT

The aim of research is to investigate the relationship between attitudes of prospective physical education teacher towards education technologies and their computer self-efficacy beliefs. Relational research method has been used in the study. Study group consists of 337 prospective physical education teachers (M_age=21.57±1.72) in total, as 169 girl (50.1%) and 168 male (49.9%) students who get their education in the physical education department of four university. As tool of collecting data, "Technology Attitude Scale" and "Computer Self-Efficacy Belief Scale" have been used. In analysis, deductional statistics such as t-test belong to arithmetic mean differences, one-way analysis of variance, and correlation and regression analysis in independent groups alongside descriptive statistics. In research, it has been specified that attitudes towards education technologies has a medium level effect in on self-efficacy belief. It has also been seen that variables which constitute the sub-dimension of attitude towards technology explained 11% of total variance. In addition, it has been established that attitudes of prospective physical education teacher towards education technologies and their computer self-efficacy beliefs are in high level. While it has not been seen a meaningful difference in attitude towards technology depending on level of using computer and gender, it has been seen a meaningful difference according to having computer and class. On the other hand, it has not been seen a meaningful depending on gender in belief of computer self-sufficiency, it has been meaningful differences according to having computer variables and computer using level.