Investigation of attidues of primary school students towards oral history

This research was conducted to develop a valid and reliable oral history attitude scale for primary school students and to determine the attitudes of primary school students towards oral history. For this purpose, 15-item Oral History Attitude Scale (OHAS) consisting of two sub-factors was developed. The scale with Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient 76 explains 46.62% of the variance. In this research done by survey model, the level of significance in the analysis of the data was defined as .05. The sub-factors of the scale are "individual" and "social". The scale has been applied for 1624 students consisting of 817 (50.3%) female and 807 (49.6%) male students who are studying in 3. and 4. years of primary school in Sakarya in the academic year of 2017-2018. After analyzing the validity and reliability of the data collection tool, the data were analyzed according to the sub-problems of the research. As a result of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test which performed to determine the tests to be applied to the obtained data, it has been seen that the distributions of the independent variables are normal. The significance control of the difference between attitude average scores towards oral history was made by t-test applied to the independent groups as independent variable level is two for the gender of the students, grade level, shcool type, family type, availability of their own room and the status of parents' living together. Since the homogeneous and independent variable level of social factor variances of family income level and history-related likes is more than two, the significance control of the differences is determined by the single way variance analysis. Since the scale variances and individual factors of history-related likes are not homogeneous and independent variable level is more than two, the significance control of the differences is determined by the Welch test In cases where the result of the single-way analysis of variance was found significant, Scheffe test was performed in order to determine difference originated from differences among the which averages. When the variances are not homogeneous, Tamhane test was performed for binary comparisons when the Welch test technique is used. As a result of the research, it has been realized that the attitudes of students towards oral history differ significantly in favor of the female students according to their gender; in favor of students who attend state school; in favor of students who enjoy history topics according to enjoyment of history subjects It has been understood that grade level, school type, family type, family income level, availability of their own room and the status of parents' living together haven't differed the attidues of students towards oral history. The findings were discussed in the light of the literature and suggestions for new investigations were given.