2nd World Conference on Educational Sciences (WCES-2010), İstanbul, Türkiye, 4 - 08 Şubat 2010, cilt.2, ss.1310-1315
The working group of this research that aims to determine the level of the basic technology competency of teachers candidate who are the students of education faculty of today and the teachers of future consists of 120 Biology, Physic, Chemistry and Mathematic teachers candidate from Education Faculty in Hacettepe University. As a data collecting tool The Basic Technology Competency Scale for Educators is used which is developed by Flowers and Algozzine (2000) and validity and reliability tests are done by Erkan Tekinarslan (2008) (alpha = .95). At the end of the research process it's found that most of the teachers candidate have basic technology competency at least mediate level and male teachers have higher competency than female teachers and when analyzed according to the branches it's seen that there are statistically meaningful differences among teachers. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.