Internet Usage Habits and Internet Usage in Educational Studies of Vocational School Students

Year 2018, Volume: 6 Issue: 11, 33 - 46, 30.04.2018

Zehra Deniz Yakıncı Perihan Gürbüz , Gülsüm Yetiş

https://doi.org/10.18009/jcer.330925

Cited By: 4

Abstract

Internet is the easiest way to access information. It provides positive contributions to individual and surroundings, in learning and information era. At this point the answers of the questions: ‘How do young people use internet and how much do they use internet for their education?’ come into prominence. In order to find the answers; a questionnaire prepared by resarchers and Young Internet Addiction Test- Short Form (YIAT-SF) was used on ‘Health Services Vocational High School’ students, in this study. 3.4 % of students were found to have internet addiction and the average internet usage was found to be 5 hours daily. When students were asked to enumerate the internet sites they use, the result was: social media, news sites, movie and series sites, educational and informational content sites, play sites, e-mail, shopping sites, and sexual content sites in order of usage preferance. While social media was preferred by 79.4% in the first place, educational content sites were determined to be preferred by 5.7% in the first place among others. The second most frequently used sites by students were movies and series (22.8%). Educational / informational content (20.2 %) sites were the fifth preferred sites in the preference order.

Keywords

internet kullanım alışkanlığı, eğitsel çalışmalarda internet kullanımı, Young internet bağımlılığı ölçeği, Meslek yüksekokulu öğrencileri

Internet Usage Habits and Internet Usage in Educational Studies of Vocational School Students

Abstract

Internet
is the easiest way to access information. It provides positive contributions to
individual and surroundings, in learning and information era. At this point the
answers of the questions: ‘How do young people use internet and how much do they
use internet for their education?’ come into prominence. In order to find the
answers; a questionnaire prepared by resarchers and Young Internet Addiction
Test- Short Form (YIAT-SF) was used on ‘Health Services Vocational High School’
students, in this study. 3.4 % of students were found to have internet addiction
and the average internet usage was found to be 5 hours daily. When students were
asked to enumerate the internet sites they use, the result was: social media,
news sites, movie and series sites, educational and informational content
sites, play sites, e-mail, shopping sites, and sexual content sites in order of
usage preferance. While social media was preferred by 79.4% in the first place,
educational content sites were determined to be preferred by 5.7% in the first
place among others. The second most frequently used sites by students were movies
and series (22.8%). Educational / informational content (20.2 %) sites were the
fifth preferred sites in the preference order.

Keywords

internet usage habit, internet usage in educational studies, vocational school students, young internet addiction test

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