The Value of Values E-Twinning Project

THE VALUE OF VALUES E-TWINNING PROJECT

THE ANALYSIS OF THE PRE-SURVEY (SURVEYMONKEY)

1) Below is the age range of the participants:

According to the results, 63 % of students are between 10 and 13 ages. That is, we have mostly middle school level students.

2) Below are the academic levels of the participants:

40 % of students are from Ä°mam Hatip Secondary Schools. This is the biggest rate among schools. 23 % of the students come from secondary schools (middle schools). The least percentage (2%) belongs to Vocational and Technical High schools.

3) Below are the answers of the participants whether they used an English application before or not.

According to their answers, 52 % of students have never used an application in English before and 48 % have used. Our aim is to increase the number of users in dealing technological programs/web tools with educational purposes.

At the end of the project, they can feel more confident in using different applications in English.

4) Below are the results of whether the participants used Web 2.0 tools to learn English or not.

60 % of the students used at least one application to learn English. This explains their familiarity with lots of terms used in Web 2.0 tools. Our aim is to increase that rate to at least 90 % at the end of the project.

5) Below is the rate of participants who have used applications to make videos or posters before.

67 % of students have never used Web 2.0 tools to prepare videos or posters.

We aim to increase the rate of users through applying different activities (e.g. logo, poster competitions) requiring the use various types web tools in our project.

6) Below is the rate of students who have participated in an E-twinning project before or not.

81 % of our students have never joined in an E-twinning project beforehands.

Thus, we can say that most of our students will need our guidance to do the activities on Twinspace.

7) Below is the rate of students who have participated in an activity about values education beforehands or not.

68 % of the students have never taken part in an activity about values education beforehands. This shows that most of our students need values education.

8) Below are the answers of our students to the question whether they had an activity about values education in English lessons beforehands or not.

The rate of students who answered positively is little (34%). And 38% of students have never had values education during English classes. 28% of students said that they do not remember. We aim to integrate values education into English classes since it’s a necessity for every single branch as required in our national curriculum by the National Ministry of Education.

9) Below are the answers of the participants for the question which value they give importance the most.

We asked if you had the chance to make a beautiful world, what would be the three values to make it a better place. According to the result, justice got the 71, respect got the 52 and love got the 47 percentage. You can see the other percentages in the following chart.

At the end of the project, we aim to make a post-survey on whether their choices have changed or not. We know that will indicate the effects of our project works on their ideas.

10) Below are the choices that the participants chose to define themselves.

Students gave answers as in the following table.

Most of the students (52%) defined themselves as “helpful�, 40% of them defined themselves as emphatetic, 35% of them have affection for the nature and environment and 33% defined themselves as being understanding. The least rate is of the students who chose the option about the consumption of national brands. (7%)

4 of the students added the different answers below.

We aim to observe the progress of our students in terms of values education, language skills and web 2.0 tools. Also, we will watch over the progress of their self-consciousness and self esteem in accordance with their behavior.

Finally, we aim to carry out our project according to individual differences of our students. We are going to observe what has changed with a post-survey at the end of the project.

THE VALUE OF VALUES E-TWINNING PROJECT TEAM