Examination of science teacher candidates' attitudes towards social media and e-learning styles in terms of various variables

In the study, it was aimed to investigate the relationship between science teacher candidates' attitudes towards social media and their e-learning styles and to investigate these according to different variables. Participants of this survey research consist of 401 teacher candidates. Personal information form was used to learn participants' gender, class level, university, personal computer existence, internet connection device, social network memberships' number, internet usage purpose and social media usage duration. Social Media Attitude Scale and E-Learning Styles Scale are other tools used. Descriptive methods, factor analysis, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, Tukey test and Pearson correlation technique were used to analyze the data. Consequently, it was found that social media attitudes were slightly positive and there were significant differences according to gender, social network memberships' number, internet usage purpose and social media usage duration. E-learning styles of the participants were also positive and there were significant differences according to class level, gender, social network memberships' number, internet usage purpose and social media usage duration. It was understood that there were moderate and positive relations between teacher candidates' attitudes towards social media and dimensions with e-learning styles and dimensions. In addition, in all categories of the variables personal computer, device type, university and social network memberships' number and in most categories of the variables gender, grade level, internet usage purpose and social media usage duration significant relationships were found between the social media attitudes of the participants and their e-learning styles. Finally, various suggestions were made within the scope of the findings.