Teacher Candidates’ Use of Facebook for Educational Purposes

Abstract In this study, the views of teacher candidates over the use of Facebook for their educational purposes (communication, cooperation, sharing sources and materials) have been analyzed in terms of gender and class variables. The research has been conducted with teacher candidates of Sakarya University College of Education. The sample of the research consists of a total of 1494 people 877 of which are females and 617 of which are males. A set of data has been formed depending on the answers of the teacher candidates to the Educational Use of Facebook scale. The data collected through the polls has been analyzed with the help of frequency and percentage, t-test, ANOVA and the techniques. With the ANOVA analysis, considerable differences have been found in the answers of the teacher candidates according to the class variable.