The relationship between high school students' mathematics achievement levels and their information, media and technology skills

Year 2025, Volume: 6 Issue: 2 , 125 - 136 , 26.12.2025

Doruk Alp Kantos , Hülya Orhan Susuz

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17995796

https://izlik.org/JA43AF79EA

Abstract

The world is in a very rapid transformation process within the framework of important technological innovations as a result of the increase and rapid spread of information. Technology, which makes itself felt in every moment of life, offers convenience to life on the one hand, and on the other hand, it affects life in a multifaceted way. So much so that in the face of the information, media and technology revolution, states and organisations come together and carry out joint studies on what skills individuals should acquire. In the list of skills prepared by leading organisations around the world, the common skill is information, media and technology skills. At this point, the studies on the rapid access of young people to information, (unconscious) use of this information in their lessons and lives, and the use of media and technology on the success of school courses have formed the basis of this research. The aim of the study is to reveal the relationship between high school students' mathematics achievement levels and their knowledge, media and technology skills. In the study, among quantitative research techniques, relational screening model and information, media and technology scale were used. The sample of the study consisted of 350 students studying in a high school in Mamak district of Ankara province. According to the findings, it was concluded that there was no significant relationship between the participant students' mathematics achievement and their abilities in the field of information, media and technology. There was no significant difference in the sub-dimensions of "communication and cooperation", "information and data literacy", "programming", "security". Based on the results obtained in the research, the student researcher suggested that the Ministry of National Education should be informed in order to organise training at school by competent and expert people in the field of information, media and technology, and to place the acquisitions related to these sub-dimensions in the newly prepared Turkish Century Education Model, which is stated to be renewed according to teacher opinions.

Keywords

Information , Technology , High School Students , Mathematics , Mathematics achievement

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