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In scientific researches, the usage of web survey as a means of obtaining data, its restrictions and implementation into physics attitude scale

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In order to meet the needs of future teachers this study was carried out to compare physics student teachers? (training in education faculty) attitude toward Physics using web questionnaire method in terms of their demographic features. This study was carried out on 131 (91 of them is male, 40 of them is female) students studying 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.th grade of physics theacher department of Dicle Üniversitesi Ziya Gökalp Education Faculty. Physics attitude scale and demographic features questionnaries were used through internet. Web questionnaires were applied as it was useful for saving time, money, energy and also more reliable. Both methods for data collection were carried out by asking students to get to the labs and log on to the site designed for the research. prospective physics teachers were asked to enter the website to fill the questionnaires. For this aim Java Script code was added to the web site to fill all questions (without leaving any blank) and then the obtained results were ready to analyse. The results showed that prospective physics teachers generally have lower sosyo-economic backgrounds. Positive attitudes toward physics increase as students advance to higher grades, and attitude toward Physics was independent of type of highschool the prospective teachers were graduated (Anadolu Lisesi, Anadolu Ögretmen lisesi, Genel Lise, Süper Lise), gender, preference sequence of ÖSYM placement system. Also higher sosyo-economic background has positive effect on attitude toward physics.

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Ferit Karakoyun

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Ferit Karakoyun (Master Thesis). In scientific researches, the usage of web survey as a means of obtaining data, its restrictions and implementation into physics attitude scale, 2007, Dicle University.

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