Author(s): İbrahim Serkan ÖDEMİŞ
The purpose of this study was to determine the level of undergraduate students’ lifelong learning tendencies studying in aviation technologies field at college and whether these tendencies differ among these students depending on their associate degree programs, language proficiency level and high school programs. In this study, survey method and an attitude scale were used for data collection. The sample of this study consisted of 179 students enrolled at different associate degree programs of state colleges such as Aircraft Technologies, Electronic Communication and Air Traffic Control in ?zmir province. Data was gathered through “Lifelong Learning Attitude Scale” developed by Coskun (2009). In the study, descriptive statistics (arithmetic means and standard deviation) and one-way ANOVA were used to analyze the data according to research questions. According to the results of the study;
1. Undergraduate students studying in aviation technologies field at associate degree programs of colleges had a high level of lifelong learning tendency.
2. In terms of associate degree program variable, there was a significant difference among the scores of Lifelong Learning Tendency Scale of the students in favor of Air Traffic Control program.
3. In terms of language proficiency level variable, there was a significant difference among the scores of Lifelong Learning Tendency Scale of the students in favor of high level language proficiency.
4. In terms of high school program variable, there was a significant difference among the scores of Lifelong Learning Tendency Scale of the students in favor of Anadolu high school graduates.
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