Investigation of University Students' Views on Online Education
Chapter from the book:
Baltacı,
Ö.
(ed.)
2023.
Current Research in Education- I.
Synopsis
Any crisis situation in a country directly or indirectly affects the education process. When natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, wars and epidemics occur, students' right to education is threatened. After the major earthquakes in Turkey on February 6, teaching activities in higher education were compulsorily continued online for the second time after the pandemic. The aim of this study is to determine the views of biology, physics, chemistry and mathematics university students towards online education according to the variables of gender, department, grade level, the tool used to follow the courses and the type of internet connection. The study group of the research, which was conducted in the survey model, consisted of 114 students, 81 of whom were female and 33 of whom were male, studying in the relevant departments in the faculty of education of a state university in Istanbul. The online education evaluation scale used to collect university students' opinions about online education is a 3-factor scale consisting of 16 items. The scale consists of attitude towards online education, learning - teaching process in online education and measurement - evaluation process in online education sub-dimensions. The data were analyzed with SPSS program. The internal reliability of the data collected in the study was calculated as .93 with Cronbach's alpha. According to the findings, it was determined that university students' attitudes towards online education were 2.29 (low), their perception levels towards the learning-teaching process in online education were 3.40 (medium) and their opinions on the measurement and evaluation process in online education were 2.96 (low). In addition, while the opinions of university students did not differ according to gender, department, grade level, the tool used to follow the courses and the type of internet connection, a significant difference was observed in the learning-teaching process dimension in online education according to the type of internet connection variable and in the attitude towards online education dimension according to the grade level.