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European Journal of Education Studies ISSN: 2501 - 1111 ISSN-L: 2501 - 1111 Available on-line at: www.oapub.org/edu Volume 3 │ Issue 6 │ 2017 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.580091 AN INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP LEVELS OF PRE-SERVICE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS AND THEIR DEMOCRATIC VALUESi Soner Aladağii, Serdar Çiftci “dnan Menderes University, Education Faculty, “ydın, Turkey Abstract: This study seeks to investigate the relationship between digital citizenship levels of preservice primary school teachers and their democratic values. The research was designed in descriptive survey model. The research was conducted with the participation of 346 pre-service primary school teachers (juniors and seniors) from Adnan Menderes University and Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University. Digital Citizenship Scale developed by İşman and G(ngören 4 and Democratic Values Scale developed by Çermik (2013) were used as the data collection tools. The data were analyzed through descriptive statistics and t-test while the unrelated samples were analyzed through oneway analysis of variance. Also, the relationship between the variables was analyzed by using correlation analysis. The results of the analyses reveal that there is a statistically insignificant difference among the pre-service primary school teachers’ digital citizenship scores in terms of the variables of gender and class. As for the democratic values scores, it is observed that there is a statistically significant difference among the pre-service primary school teachers’ scores in terms of gender, having access to the Internet connection, the duration of the Internet use experience, and the duration of daily Internet use. There is also a statistically significant difference among the digital citizenship scores in terms of having the Internet connection, the duration of the Internet use experience, the duration of daily Internet use, and perceived level of the Internet using skills. Democratic values scores differ significantly in terms of class and perceived level of the Internet using skills. When the scores taken from the digital This study was presented at 10th International Computer and Instructional Technologies Symposium May 16-18, 2016 and the abstract was published in the proceedings. i Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved. © 2015 – 2017 Open Access Publishing Group 171 Soner “ladağ, Serdar Çiftci AN INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP LEVELS OF PRE-SERVICE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS AND THEIR DEMOCRATIC VALUES citizenship and democratic values scales are analyzed, it is observed that there is a weak positive correlation between these two variables. Keywords: digital citizenship, democratic values, primary school education, pre-service teachers For downloading the full article, please access the following link: http://oapub.org/edu/index.php/ejes/article/view/727 European Journal of Education Studies - Volume 3 │ Issue 6 │ 2017 172