INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF DISTANCE EDUCATION ON DIGITAL LITERACY SKILLS OF TURKISH TEACHERS

Abstract

The aim of this study is to seek into the digital literacy skills of Turkish teachers who teach distance education during the Covid-19 epidemic. In this study, a one-group pre-test post-test experimental design which is one of the quantitative research methods was used. The study group of this research consists of 92 participants who work as Turkish teachers in the Ministry of National Education in Turkey. Digital Literacy Scale was used as a data collection tool. A form was prepared via GoogleDocs to collect research data. It was applied to Turkish teachers before starting distance education in the first week of the fall semester of the 2020-2021 academic year. At the beginning of the semester, the scale was applied once again. So research data was collected. Paired Sample T-test was used to analyze the data. As a result of the research, it has been determined that distance education has a significant effect on digital literacy. In other words, during the Covid-19 epidemic, the digital literacy skills of Turkish teachers who teach their lessons with distance education have improved.