TEKNOLOJİ KULLANIMI VE TEKNOLOJİYE KARŞI TUTUM: PISA 2003 VERİSİNİN ULUSLARARASI ANALİZİ

Year 2014, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 45 - 64, 01.12.2014

Murat Kahveci Yeşim İmamoğlu

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın amacı; cinsiyet, coğrafik bölge, ve sosyoekonomik durum açısından bilgisayar kullanımı ve bilgisayara karşı tutumları analiz etmektir. Örneklem PISA 2003 çalışmasına katılan 15 yaş grubundaki öğrencilerini kapsamaktadır. Kullanıma hazır bilgisayar bulunması, bilgisayar kullanım tecrübesi, farklı amaçlar için bilgisayar kullanım sıklığı ve bilgisayara karşı tutum değişkenleri arasında anlamlı farklılıklar bulunmuştur. Matematik kaygısı ile ilgili bağlantı tartışılmıştır. Sonuçlar öyle gösteriyor ki; erkekler bilgisayara karşı daha pozitif bir tutum sergilemekte ve daha sık bilgisayar kullanım eğiliminde olmaktadırlar. Sosyoekonomik seviye yükselirken, bilgisayar kullanım deneyimleri ve bilgisayara karşı (pozitif) tutum artmaktadır

Keywords

Bilgisayar, Cinsiyet, PISA 2003, Bilgisayara Karşı Tutum

USE of TECHNOLOGY and ATTITUDES towards TECHNOLOGY: An INTERNATIONAL ANALYSIS of the PISA 2003

Abstract

The aim of this study is to analyze the use of computers and attitudes towards computers with respect to gender, geographical regions and socioeconomic status. The sample includes 15-year old students, who have participated in the international PISA 2003 study. Significant differences are found in the variables of availability of a computer to use, experience of computer use, frequency of computer use for different purposes, and attitudes towards computers. Connections with mathematics anxiety are also discussed. Results indicate that boys have more positive attitude towards computers and they tend to use computers more frequently. While socioeconomic level increases, experiences in computer use and Internet use and positive attitudes towards computers increase

Keywords

Computers, Gender, PISA 2003, Attitudes towards Computers

References

• schoolwork. Hence affective factors such as anxiety and motivation are likely to have a role in
• frequency of use as well as socioeconomic factors. In fact, in a previous study on the same
• sample (Kahveci & Imamoglu, 2014), researchers found that mathematics anxiety follows a
• similar trend: medium socioeconomic level students have the highest anxiety, whereas very
• high and very low socioeconomic level students have lowest mathematics anxiety. Another
• possible explanation may be that students who do not use computer programs frequently for
• academic purposes tend to have higher anxiety (in other subjects as well as mathematics).
• Results for attitudes towards computers also reveal significant mean differences with respect to
• gender, geographical regions and socioeconomic status. Males have more positive attitudes
• compared to females. This may be a reason to the result that males use Internet and software
• programs more frequently. Southeast Mediterranean countries have the most positive attitude
• towards computers, while Oceania has the lowest. This is opposite to the other findings where
• Oceania has the highest computer availability of computers, experience and internet use. It also
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• significant linear relationship between attitudes towards computer use and socioeconomic
• status, however, the line is close to horizontal, meaning that attitudes towards computer do not
• show big changes with respect to socioeconomic status. Mathematics anxiety with respect to
• socioeconomic status does not show a similar trend. Further research can be conducted to
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