Last modified: 2017-03-24
Abstract
Technology has always existed not for recently. For ages, its effect has occurred on society, economy and politics and evolution of technology is closely related to human development (Ateş & Durmaz, 2017). One of the technology uses in human development occurs in educational sciences. Mobile learning, among them, has great importance during formal education process and outside of formal education (Cheon, Lee, Crooks & Song, 2012). Since mobile learning provides a number of benefits (e.g., students can access course material from anywhere), investigation students’ behaviors toward using of mobile learning can contribute to literature in education. Although it is difficult that every aspect of human behavior is clarified (Ajzen, 1991), concepts related to behavioral dispositions can predict human behavior (Ajzen, 1988). Predicting wide range of specific behaviors is explained with Ajzen and Madden’ (1986) theory of planned behavior (TPB). In this study, we aimed to conduct Turkish adaptation of a scale developed by Cheon et al. (2012) and study its properties of reliability and validity used to predict pre-service science teachers’ behaviors toward mobile learning in higher education level using TPB. Quantitative study will be used in the research with pre-service science teachers at two Universities in Turkey. The data is planned to be collected within one month of the 2016-2017 academic year spring semester. In this research, data will be analyzed with Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) method.