4. Conclusion and Disscussion
Setting out to analyse the attitudes towards reading and media literacy levels of the students attending the faculty
of education, in terms of different variables, we conclude that:
1. When the points the students of the Faculty of Education got from the “Attitude Scale towards Reading Habit”
are analysed in terms of gender variable, it is seen that the difference between them is statistically significant
(p˂0.05). This difference is in favour of female students, which shows that the attitudes of female students towards
reading are higher than those of male students.
2. When the points the students of the Faculty of Education got from the “Media Literacy Scale” are analysed in
terms of gender variable, it is seen that there is not a statistically significant difference (p˃0.05).
3. When the points the students got from the “Attitude Scale towards Reading Habit” are examined in terms of
their departments, there is a statistically significant difference between the points of the students who receive
education in Turkish Teaching Department and those in Mathematics and Science Teaching departments (p˂0,05).
There is not any significant difference between the points the students in the other departments got from this scale.
Why the students of Turkish Teaching Department maintain higher attitudes towards reading compared to the other
departments can be explained by the fact that they read more books during their education. In another saying,
Turkish Teaching Department includes extensive courses of literature as well as language and education.
4. When the points the students got from the “Media Literacy Scale” are analysed in terms of their departments,
we observe a statistically significant difference between the points belonging to the students in the department of
Computer Education and Instructional Technology and those who receive education in the departments of Science,
Primary School and Mathematics Teaching (p˂0,05). We could not observe any significant difference between the
points the students in the other departments got from the Media Literacy Scale. The students of Computer Education
and Instructional Technology use computer and Internet more active than the students of other departments . This
habit is reflected in their media literacy and so they scored better in this scale.
5. When the attitudes of students towards reading habit and their media literacy are examined in terms of their
grades, there is not any significant difference between the grades (p˃0,05).