PRESERVICE MATHEMATICS TEACHERS’ VIEWS ON DISTANCE EDUCATION AND THEIR WEB PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE

This research aims to investigate primary preservice mathematics teachers’ views on
distance education and web pedagogical content knowledge in terms of the subscales of
general web, communicative web, pedagogical web, web pedagogical content and
attitude towards web based instruction. The research was conducted with 46 senior
students in the department of Primary Mathematics Education in Istanbul. Web
Pedagogical Content Knowledge scale developed by Lee, Tsai and Chang (2008) and
adapted into Turkish by Horzum (2011) was used as the data collection tool. Values of
frequency and percentage and Kruskal Wallis test were used in the analysis of the data.
Whether preservice teachers’ perceptions towards adequacy levels for web pedagogical
content knowledge differ or not was discussed in terms of their views on distance
education and their habits of using the Internet and e-mail.