Investigation of elementary education students’ Attitudes towards the use of smart boards

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to investigate the attitudes of elementary education students towards the use of Smart Board (SB) in lessons. The study is based on the associational survey model from quantitative research methods. The study was conducted on students attending at 4th to 8th grades of three schools, both primary and secondary stages, in Malatya province during 2016-2017 academic year. “Smart board attitude scale-SBAS” by Şad (2012) composed of 10 items and 5-point Likert scale was used in order to collect data. The result of the study revealed that elementary education students have a positive attitude on smart board usage in general. There was no significant difference in terms of gender while there was a significant difference in terms of the number of students in the classes, school type and grade.