The effect of Fatih project on teachers' self-efficacy beliefs about internet usage and on their attitudes towards computer (Kırşehi̇r province sample)

This study aims to research the effect of teaching technologies in the scope of FATİH project on teachers' self-efficacy beliefs about educational internet usage and on their attitudes towards computer. The sample group of this study is composed of 128 teachers who are working in Kırşehir province in 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 academic years at secondary schools which are equipped with interactive whiteboards in the scope of FATİH project and who were distributed tablet computers. This research was performed by using general survey model which is one of the descriptive research methods. The research is a longtudinal one as it investigates the application of FATİH Project in Kırşehir and its effect during one-year of application process. The data of the research was obtained by using the "Computer Attitude Scale for Teachers" which was developed by Bindak and Çelik (2006) and the " Educational Internet Usage Self-Efficacy Beliefs Scale" which was developed by Şahin (2009). Information about the demographic characteristics of the participants were obtained by the Survey Data Sheet. For the analysis of the data SPSS 22 software package was used. According to the findings of the research, the teaching technologies in the scope of FATİH project has created a statistically significant difference in the attitudes of teachers towards computer in favor of the final application. It was found that in the self-efficacy beliefs of teachers in educational internet usage, there is a statistically significant difference in favor of the final application. In the findings of pre-application and post-application of computer attitude scale for teachers and educational internet usage self-efficacy beliefs scale, statistically significant differences was found in favor of computer attitude scale score. It was observed that there is a positive moderate correlation between teachers's computer attitude scores and their educational internet usage scores. Keywords: Teacher, FATİH Project, Educational Internet Usage, Self-Efficacy Belief, Computer Attitude.