The study of science teachers attitudes towards distance education in terms of different variants

The aim of this study is to examine science teachers' attitudes towards distance education in terms of some variables. The research was carried out with science teachers working in Malatya in the 2020-2021 academic year. The attitude scale towards distance education developed by Ağır (2007) was applied to the teachers participating in the study. These teachers' attitudes towards distance education were examined in terms of variables such as gender, age, daily time spent on the internet, the institution where they work at, the region where the institution they work at is located, their professional experience, educational status, and whether or not they had prior distance education experience. Data were analyzed using SPSS v23 package program. Mann Whitney U test and Kruskall Wallis H test, which are nonparametric tests, were used in data analysis. According to the findings of the study, while the attitude scores towards distance education in terms of daily time spent on the internet, gender and educational status did not differ significantly; A statistically significant difference was found according to the variables of age, the institution where they work at, the region where the institution they work at is located, professional experience, and whether or not they had prior distance education experience