A research on preschool and primary student-teachers’ use of online homework sites

Abstract

The main purpose of this research is to investigate the preschool and primary level student teachers’ use of the websites assisting homework, the reasons why they use such websites, their attitudes towards such websites, and their suggestions concerning the use of those websites. The data collection tool, the “Homework Evaluation Scale” was administered to a total of 219 preschool and primary level student teachers. In order to analyze the data; factor analysis, reliability test, t-test, one-way ANOVA, frequency and percentages
were used. Some personal information about the participants (age, gender,..) was compared with attitudes towards homework sites. The findings of the study showed that there was a significant difference between beneficiary of online homework sites and student-teachers’ field of study related to attitudes towards homework sites