THE EVALUATION OF THE SKILLS OF TEACHER CANDIDATES' INFORMATION LITERACY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Abstract

SUMMARY The main purpose of this study is to evaluate of the skills of teacher candidates' information literacy in the 21st century.The research is based on survey metod. The population of the study has been built up by the students who were at the their final year in the 2009-2010 academic year in the departments of Education Faculty of Inonu University and its sample has been built up by randomly chosen 480 students from these teacher candidates. In the research, as the means of getting data, 'Information Literacy Skill Survey' which was developed by the researchers has been used. In the survey, there are 24 items that question the information literacy skill and it includes the choices that are related with level of the realization of them by the teacher candidates with Never (1), Seldom (2), Sometimes (3), More often (4), Always (5). In the analyse of the data, related with each item, the frequency, percentage and mean of the view of the teacher candidates have been given. As to the determining whether there are meaningful differences between the teacher candidates' information literacy skill in the sense of gender, department, type of high school, the accomodation of their school life, their level of a foreign language, the type of most read book, the opportunities of using computers and their related views, for each item, the tests of significance such as the t-test, one-dimensional variance analyse, Mann Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis H have been used. In conclusion, it has been found out that the teacher candidates mainly perform their information literacy skill; that in reaching the information, they use computers and other technological devices more, and generally know where and how to search the information; that they less improve their foreign languages and particape in obeying the scientific ethical principles; according to the variables mentioned above, that in general there isn't a significant difference among the views of the teacher candidates, but, in specific for some of the items, significant differences have been found. Being predicated on these results, the teacher candidates have been proposed to develop their information literacy skills.

Keywords

• Information Society, Teacher Candidate, Life Long Education, Literacy, Ynformation Literacy,

21. YÜZYILDA ÖĞRETMEN ADAYLARININ BİLGİ OKURYAZARLIK BECERİLERİNİN DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ

Öz

Bu araştırmanın temel amacı, 21.yüzyılda öğretmen adaylarının bilgi okuryazarlık becerilerini değerlendirmektir. Araştırma, genel tarama modeline dayanmaktadır. Araştırmanın evrenini 2009-2010 Öğretim yılında Malatya İnönü Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi’ne bağlı bölümlerin son sınıflarındaki öğretmen adayları; örneklemini ise bu öğretmen adayları arasından tesadüfî olarak seçilmiş 480 öğretmen adayı oluşturmaktadır. Araştırmada veri toplama aracı olarak, araştırmacılar tarafından geliştirilmiş ‘’Bilgi Okuryazarlık Becerisi Anketi’’ kullanılmıştır. Sonuçta, öğretmen adaylarının bilgi okuryazarlık becerilerini çoğunlukla yerine getirdikleri; çeşitli değişkenlere (cinsiyet, bölüm, vb.) göre, öğretmen adaylarının görüşleri arasında genelde anlamlı bir fark olmadığı, ancak özelde bazı maddeler için anlamlı farklara rastlandığı,  ortaya çıkmıştır. Bu sonuçlara dayalı olarak, öğretmen adaylarının bilgi okuryazarlık becerilerini geliştirme ile ilgili önerilerde bulunulmuştur.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Bilgi Toplumu,Öğretmen Adayı,Yaşam Boyu Öğrenme,Öğretmen Yetiştirme,Bilgi Okuryazarlığı