Awareness application regarding web-based ethical values education for primary school students

The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of the Web-based Ethical Values Education (WEVE) model as an alternative method in teaching and goining ethical values and to bring this model in to our education.In this context web-based environmet has been developed by the researchers in this study based on two sub-dimensions of ethical values education namely fairness and honesty. The study group of this research consisted of 10 students who are at the 4th grade of a public primary school in which students from upper, middle and low social economic classes and located in Istanbul. Those attendees have completed related models by being taken into the WEVE application environment for 12 weeks. In this research, quantitative and qualitative research methods were used to describe the WEVE process and to examine the usability of WEVE environment. By making use of "Dilemma Form About Ethical Values" (which is a quantitative research method), semi-experimental method which is based on a pattern with pre-test/pro-test experimental group is used. By making use of "Semi-Structured Meeting Form" and "Scale of Assignment Evaluation" (which are qualitative research methods), data is explained with descriptive analysis. "Scale of Assignment Evaluation", "Dilemma Form About Ethical Values" and "Semi-Structured Meeting Form" are used as data collection tool in the study. As a result of this research, we've achieved that Web-based Ethical Values Education application can be an alternative method to make people gain honesty and fairness values. Besides, it's discovered that WEVE has an effect on existing fairness and honesty values of people and this environment can be an alternative environment for ethical values education. Keywords: Ethical Values Education, Web-based Ethical Values Education, Honesty, Fairness