INVESTIGATION OF FACTORS AFFECTING STUDENTS' ATTENDANCE AND THE TIME SPEED IN THE COURSE IN THE ONLINE ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

Concept of participation, which is defined as the presence of students in the course or following registered courses, is extremely important in distance education. It is seen that there are different factors affecting participation. Among these factors, there are elements such as teacher, teaching method, individual characteristics of students, and duration of course. It is seen that participation affects important areas such as student success, performance and dropping out of course. This study aims to determine tendencies of students who have to take courses with distance education during the pandemic period, by examining their records on online course platform. While determining general participation tendencies of students, duration of their stay in course was examined according to variables of course, department, gender and way course was presented. It was investigated whether there is a relationship between duration of delay to lesson and duration of stay in lesson. As a result of the research, it was seen that attendance to classes was higher in first weeks, and number of attendance was always lower in following weeks. It was observed that participants studying in Law, Finance and Agricultural Machinery departments, where participation times differ according to department, did not stay long in distance education courses. While participation time did not change according to gender, it was determined that participation time in synchronous TBTK courses took longer than courses with video surveillance. It has been observed that there is a moderate and negative significant relationship between the duration of the students' stay in the course and the delay to the course. At the end of the study, it is recommended to determine the reason for this issue and to carry out new studies in different courses so that the participation of the students does not decrease in the following weeks.

Keywords

• distance education
• attendance
• delay to class

ÇEVRİMİÇİ ORTAMDA ÖĞRENCİLERİN DERSE KATILIMLARINI VE DERSTE GEÇİRDİKLERİ SÜREYİ ETKİLEYEN FAKTÖRLERİN İNCELENMESİ

Öz

Öğrencilerin derste var olması ya da kayıtlı olan dersleri takip etmesi olarak nitelendirilen katılım kavramı uzaktan eğitim ortamında son derece önemlidir. Katılımı etkileyen farklı faktörler olduğu görülmektedir. Bu faktörler arasında öğretmen, öğretim yöntemi, öğrencilerin bireysel özellikleri, ders süresi gibi ögeler bulunmaktadır. Katılımının ise öğrenci başarısı, performansı ve dersi bırakması gibi önemli alanları etkilediği görülmektedir. Bu çalışma pandemi döneminde zorunlu olarak uzaktan eğitim ile ders almak durumunda kalan öğrencilerin online ders platformundaki kayıtlarının incelenerek, derslere katılımları ile ilgili eğilimlerini belirlemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Öğrencilerin genel katılım eğilimleri belirlenirken derste kalma süreleri, ders, bölüm, cinsiyet ve dersin sunum şekli değişkenlerine göre incelenmiştir. Derse gecikme süresi ile derste kalma süresi arasında ilişki olup olmadığı araştırılmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda ilk haftalarda derslere katılımın daha fazla olduğu, ilerleyen haftalarda katılım sayısının hep daha düşük kaldığı görülmüştür. Bölüme göre katılım sürelerinin farklılık gösterdiği Hukuk, Maliye ve Tarım Makineleri bölümlerinde okuyan katılımcıların uzaktan eğitim derslerinde uzun süre kalmadıkları görülmüştür. Cinsiyete göre katılım süresi değişmezken, senkron olarak devam eden TBTK derslerinde katılım süresinin, video takibi olan derslere göre daha uzun sürdüğü belirlenmiştir. Öğrencilerin derste kalma süresi ile derse gecikme süresi arasında orta düzeyde ve negatif yönde anlamlı bir ilişki olduğu görülmüştür. Çalışma sonunda öğrencilerin katılımının ilerleyen haftalarda azalmaması için bu konunun nedeninin belirlenmesi, farklı derslerde yeni çalışmaların gerçekleştirilmesi önerilmektedir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• uzaktan eğitim
• derse katılım
• derse gecikme

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