Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
1st World Conference on Learning, Teaching and Administration, WCLTA-2010, Cairo, Mısır, 29 - 31 Ekim 2010, cilt.9, ss.1244-1250
The aim of this research is to determine internet privacy behaviors of students. The research was carried out in survey model. The study group of this research consists of students attending Ankara University Educational Sciences Institute Secondary Education Field Teaching Master of Arts without Thesis Programs (Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Social Studies and Philology) at the academic year of 2009-2010 and the total number of the students is 205 (females (n=163) and males (n=42)). Questionnaire was utilized as data collection instrument. The questionnaire consists of 42 questions covering the issues of privacy behaviors, general attention, technical protection and privacy concerns. 5-Point Likert type scale is utilized within the questions included in the questionnaire. T-Test, Kruskal-Wallis H test, Mann-Whitney U test and one-way ANOVA for independent samples were utilized in order to find out whether there are statistical significances according to the variables of internet privacy behaviors, genders, program enrolled, having computer, internet usage skills, internet usage frequencies and internet connection duration concerning students. At the end of the findings obtained within the scope of the research, it was found out that there are not any statistical significance between the privacy behaviors and genders, internet usage experiences and frequencies; on the other hand, it was found out that there are statistical significances between their attention behaviors and having computer, internet usage skills, technical protection, program enrolled and internet connection durations. As a result, it can be said that students display differences on technical protection in terms of having computer and usage skills, and also they display differences on attention behaviors in terms of program type and internet connection duration, but on the other hand, all students display similar behavior types on privacy concerns. © 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd.