Prof. Dr. Yüksel Göktaş

This study was designed to investigate how primary education teachers in Turkey use ICT, and what changes in that usage have occurred in classroom education from 2005 to 2011. A comparative design was employed to investigate and analyze the changes between 2005 and 2011, and a survey method was used for data collection purposes. Data were collected from 1373 teachers, from 52 primary schools, in 39 provinces in 2011. Within the context of PhD thesis coordinated in 2005, 1429 teacher took place chosen with convenience sample method. The findings reveal that the most frequently used ICT tools were the computer, the projector, and the printer. The most frequently used software was word processor software, Web browsers, and presentation programs. The significant changes in the use of ICT software between 2005 and 2011 involved presentation programs, instructional games, and animation programs,. A significant increase was also found in the use of hardware, specifically “projectors” and “computers”. In conclusion, there was a slight improvement in the integration of ICT into schools by primary school teachers from 2005 to 2011.