The investigation of university students' awareness levels about geography of Turkic world

It has been thought that university students must be aware of Geography of Turkic World for being in the status to develop the relations between Turkey and Republics of Turkish in Geography of Turkey World. This study aims to investigate the awareness levels of university students on Geography of Turkic World. In the line of this purpose, we examined whether their awareness are any significant difference in terms of faculty type, class grade, department at which they are studying, gender, and the type of high school at which they experienced previously. Investigating the current awareness levels of university students on Geography of Turkic World, this research was designed through survey model which is one of quantitative research methods. Instudy, as data collection tool, a questionaire form including fourparts was utilized. In the first section, it includes demographics about university students; second section consists of items about World Map and the Republics of Turkic World which are automonous and independent. The following section involves the attitude scale of Geography of Turkic World. In four section, it includes awareness scale of Geography of Turkic World. Pilot schema was performed with 135 university students who are studying at University of Uşak. As a result of pilot schema, we obtained one dimension attitude scale including 9 items. The reliability coefficient of this scale was found to be .906. The reliability coefficient of awareness questionaire about Geography of Turkic World was calculated as .840. The study group of this research consists of 800 university students chosen using stratified sampling method from faculty of education, faculty of art and literature, faculty of engineering, faculty of economics and administrative sciences, faculty of islamic sciences, faculty of communication, and faculty of fine arts. The findings indicates that university students' awareness levels about Geography of Turkic World is very low. In addition, we found that there is not significant difference in terms of the type of high school at which they experienced previously and class grade although their awareness any significant difference in terms of their gender, faculty and department at which they are studying,