Gökçearslan, Şahin Gazi Üniversitesi - Enformatik Bölümü, Turkey , Günbatar, Mustafa Serkan Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi - Bilgisayar ve Öğretim Teknolojileri Eğitimi Bölümü(BÖTE Bölümü), Turkey , Berikan, Burcu Gazi Üniversitesi - Bilgisayar ve Öğretim Teknolojileri Eğitimi Bölümü(BÖTE Bölümü), Turkey

Information Technologies Ethics in Secondary School Students: A Review with Real Life Case Scenarios

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The widespread use of information tools with the development of internet causes some negative effects and one of these effects is ethical issue. Information technologies ethics focuses on correct and incorrect behaviors related to the use of ICT tools. In this study, the relationships between the level of secondary school students in information ethics and some variables like class, gender, parental education, the duration of attending information technology and software courses are examined. The model of study is survey research and real-life case scenarios are used to measure the level of information technologies ethics awareness. The study group was composed of 5-6-7-8th class secondary school students. According to the findings, the level of information technologies ethics of students is high. Moreover, this level is differentiated with gender and class level and it is not differentiated with parental education and the duration of attending information technology and software course. According to applied CHAID analysis, gender is in the lead with the highest correlation level in the classification of variables that affects the behavior of information technologies ethics ranks. Gender also affects the level of class which is ranked as second within variables. As to suggestions, the study should be repeated with more comprehensive study groups and the groups outside the group of secondary school students

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Information technologies ethics , gender class parent education secondary school students

ege journal of education

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