Investigation of physics teachers' and physics pre-servise teachers' attitudes towards distance education

This study was conducted to examine the attitudes of physics teachers and physics teacher candidates towards distance education in the 2021-2022 academic year. For this purpose, the „„Distance Education Attitude Scale‟‟ developed by Ağır, Gür and Okçu (2007) was used as a data collection tool. The Distance Education Attitude Scale, which was converted into an online questionnaire, was first applied to 52 teachers form different branches for validity and reliability analysis. The final scale, which emerged as a result of the validity and reliability analyzes, was applied online to a total of 100 physics teachers, 57 of whom were female, 43 male and 43 physics teacher candidates, 28 female and 15 male, studying in the department of education physics education at Necmettin Erbakan University Ahmet Keleşoğlu. SPSS 15.0 program was used in the analysis of the data. While physics teachers‟ attitudes towards distance education were analyzed by the variables of gender, institution, Professional seniority and educational status, the attitudes of physics teacher candidates was analyzed by their gender and grade level variables. According to the results of the research, while there was no significant difference between the genders and educational status of physics teachers and their attitudes towards distance education, there was a significant difference between the institutions and professional seniority of the physics teachers and their attitudes towards distance education. It was determined that the attitude scores of the physics teachers working in private schools towards distance education were significantly higher than the physics teachers working in public schools. In addition, it was revealed that the attitude scores of physics teachers with 6-10 years of professional seniority towards the advantages of distance education were significantly lower than those of physics teachers with 11-15 years of professional seniority. On the other hand, it was determined that there was no significant difference between the attitudes of physics teacher candidates towards distance education and their gender and grade levels. Keywords: Distance Learning, Physics Education, Attitude, Physics Teacher, Physics Teacher Candidates