Study over high school students' conditions for using mobile applications in education: Example of Sakarya Kaynarca

The purpose of this research is to find out high school students' conditions for using mobile applications in education and determine relation of it between some factors. The sample of the study is composed of 647 students who are from three different types of schools in 2018-2019 academic year in Kaynarca, Sakarya. Suitable exemplificaiton method which is not based on possibility is used in this study. A Student Information Form which has been prepared by researcher with 8 questions and a survey named The Use of Mobile Applications in Education, prepared by Çam and Uysal (2017) with 39 questions have been used to collect information. Data collected online via google-form via eba were analyzed using quantitative methods. During analyzing this information; arithmetic mean, standard deviation, frequancy analysis, descriptive statististics data, ANOVA and indipendent samples t-test have been used. According to results of the research, high school students' conditions for using mobile application in education differs meaningfully according to factors whether students have permanent internet connection, type of high school, the daily time of using mobile application while it doesn't differ according to factors of gender, grade of students, income degree of family and the spended time between school and house. Keywords: mobile learning, mobile applications, mobile applications in education, mobile technologies