THE PERCEPTION ANALYSIS OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS CONCERNING TECHNOLOGY USE IN MATHS TEACHING: A CASE OF EFELER DISTRICT.

The aim of this study is to determine the perceptions of primary school teachers regarding the use of technology in maths teaching and to idenfy whether these perceptions change according to particular variables. The mixed research methodology,in which both qualitative and quantitative patterns are simultaneously used,was incorporated in the study, 299 primay school teachers, employed in primary schools in the Efeler town of Aydın in the academic year of 2016- 2017, comprise the working group of the study. In order to specify the opinions of the participants, the perception scale on the use of technology in primary grade maths teaching, developed by Öksüz, Ak and Uça, (2009) with a scale of 5 totaling 3 subdimensions and 73 items (PSUT) was adopted. With the goal of deeping the findings of the study, 15 semi-rehearsedd interviews were conducted. The software of Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS 20.0) was utilized fort he analysis of the quantitative data. The Kolmogorov Smirnov Test was applied to determine whether the data was parametric or not. As the test values were below .05 nonparametric testing methods were employed. Therefore, the relationship between the data of two non-parametric groups was analyzed via the Mann-Whitney U test, while the Kruskal Wallis H test was employed when dealing with multiple group variables. Qualitative data was resolved using descriptive analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]