Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Milli Egitim, cilt.51, sa.233, ss.461-488, 2022 (Scopus)
© 2022, Milli Egitim.All Rights Reserved.The main purpose of this research is to reveal the opinions of the elementary school students and their parents about the distance education, during Covid-19 pandemic. This research designed according to the descriptive phenomenological design, which is a type of qualitative study. The study group of this research consists of parents and elementary school students who continue their education in elementary schools in 2019 and 2020 year. These students were chosen from the schools that are in Mamak and Çankaya districts of Ankara province and these schools are bounded to the Turkey’s Ministry of Education. Conducted analysis created these themes: suitability of distance education to academic learning, education events during the distance education process, support and communication during distance education, evaluation of distance education process. According to the results of the research, it is found that a) students’ academic learning environment is suitable and all parents have an access to internet connection but it is limited. b) Half of the students don’t have a computer yet all of them have smart phones. c) Although students spend most of their time in front of screen, it is found out that they do not watch EBA TV. d) it is seen that students do not benefit from EBA enough. e) It is also seen that teachers carry out their duties on doing live lessons yet students are not attending them. f) Both parents and students prefer face-to-face learning instead of distant education. This research can reveal the gaps and obstacles about distance education in elementary schools