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Assessment of the Effect of Personal and Familial Characteristics on Students’ Attitudes Towards Writing on Paper and Digital Writing
Assessment of the Effect of Personal and Familial Characteristics on Students’ Attitudes Towards Writing on Paper and Digital Writing

Author(s): Palavan Özcan, Ahmet Güneyli, Gemalmaz Necati, Karabacak Esra Havva
Subject(s): School education, ICT Information and Communications Technologies, Distance learning / e-learning
Published by: UIKTEN - Association for Information Communication Technology Education and Science
Keywords: writing skill; writing on paper; digital writing; writing attitude; high school students

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to investigate whether the high school students' attitudes towards writing on paper and digital writing were affected by their personal characteristics and familial characteristics. Survey method was used to determine high school students' attitudes towards writing on paper and digital writing. The sample of the study was determined using convenience sampling. Accordingly, a total of 301 students studying at Kahramanmaraş Anatolian High School during the 2019-2020 academic year were included in the study. “Inventory of Attitudes Towards Writing on Paper and Digital Writing” was used to collect the research data. Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis and Wilcoxon Signed-Rank tests were used to analyse the data. Based on the findings of the research, it was concluded that high school students’ attitudes towards writing on paper and digital writing did not differ according to their personal characteristics or familial characteristics, except for one independent variable, that is the father's educational attainment.

  • Issue Year: 11/2022
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 1265-1274
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English