Özet:
Artificial intelligence, which we encounter in every field of life, increases its importance
day by day. Mankind has started to rapidly spread this technology, which has just
emerged, to all areas of life. Artificial intelligence has managed to have a say in every
field from the health sector to education. Attitudes towards artificial intelligence have
also started to gain importance in different professions. One of the professions affected
by this situation is undoubtedly the teaching profession. Increasing levels of concern
and changing attitudes towards artificial intelligence have become important in order
to adapt to potential technologies to be used in the education and training process.
This study aims to examine the attitudes of pre-service science and mathematics
teachers towards artificial intelligence according to the factors of gender, department
and graduated high school. For this purpose, the general attitude scale towards artificial
intelligence was applied to pre-service teachers and then the data were analysed by
independent t-test and Anova test. The data obtained show that the gender of the preservice
teachers and the type of high school they graduated from do not have a
significant effect on the general attitude towards artificial intelligence. However, a
significant difference was observed between pre-service science teachers' general
attitudes towards artificial intelligence and pre-service mathematics teachers' general
attitudes towards artificial intelligence. Within the scope of the results of this study, it
may be useful to develop teaching programmes focusing on artificial intelligence for
pre-service teachers in the long term and to increase the technological equipment in
the classrooms where they study.
