RESEARCHING THE DISTANCE EDUCATION TENDENCIES OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN THE COVID-19 PROCESS


Eygü H.

JOURNAL OF MEHMET AKIF ERSOY UNIVERSITY ECONOMICS AND ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES FACULTY, sa.2, ss.882-903, 2023 (ESCI) identifier identifier

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The aim of this study is to determine the tendency of students to distance education with mandatory distance education in universities during the Covid-19 period. The data set used in the reseacrh consisting of a horizontal cross-section obtanied with the help of a questionnaire. The population of the study consists of 5574 students studying at public universities. In this study was used simple random sampling and stratified sampling method. Probit regression analysis was used to determine the sociodemographic and economic factors affecting the tendency of the students participating in the study to distance education. The result of the study demonstrated that tendency of university students towards distance education according to selected variables were statistically significant relationship. While tendency of students towards distance education were found to differ significantly based on some variables like gender, marital status, age, university location, place of residence and family average monthly income they did not differ significantly for department of the university, family place of residence and student monthly.