Bilişim teknolojileri alanında meslek seçimini yordayan değişkenler
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2017
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Eğitim Bilimleri Fakültesi
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This study aims at exploring the impact of gender, digital competence, computer anxiety, internet addiction and perception variables related to the field of information and communication technologies (ICT) on the career choice of high school seniors and college freshmen who continue their ICT education. In this research, relational model of quantitative research methods was used and direct or indirect predictive structural relationship among the variables were examined. The research group consists of 997 university students who have studied in 6 different ICT-related departments of 25 universities and 1432 high school seniors in 6 different kinds of high school who are about to decide on their careers. In order to identify the predictive structural relationships of career choice in the field of ICT which is dependent variable of the research; digital competence, perception of ICT field, computer anxiety, internet addiction and gender were chosen as independent variables. The data of the research were collected with the scales, which have been developed by other researchers; and its validity and reliebility was tested by doing once again in the current research group. In order to identify the perception for the ICT field, an available measuring tool could not be found out. Thus, a scale was developed by the researcher and its validity and reliability studies were carried out by doing exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis with the data which was obtained from the research group. In the process of data collecting, the forms were administered to the students by preparing an online environment for the university group; and for high school students, they were delivered as printed. The data obtained from the research group were analysed by using SPSS 20.0 and LISREL 8.71. Based on the literature, the model with independent variables which is considered as the probable predictor of career choice in the field of information technologies was tested. According to the findings, as the created model has not shown acceptable fit values in the university group, indirect effects could not be tested. When the direct effect of independent variables was examined, there is a positive relationship among the career choice in the field of ICT and individuals' gender, their perceptions to this field and levels of digital competence. The findings obtained from high school group revealed that the created model represented acceptable goodness of fit values and variables in the modal were the predictive of career choice in the field of ICT. The results of this study indicate that in these two groups which chose their career field and which were about to choose their field; the relation of variables which predict the career choice related to the field of ICT differentiates. Furthermore, it can be said that individuals' gender, their levels of digital competence, computer anxiety, internet addiction level and perception of the field of ICT are all predictive variables while choosing a career in this field.
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Sayısal yetkinlik, Bilgisayar kaygısı, İnternet kaygısı