Adaptation Motivation toward Web-based Professional Development Scale and Examining Pre-service Teachers Motivation toward Web-based Professional Development Perception in Terms of Different Variables ★

StudyThe first purpose of this study was to adaptation of motivation toward web-based professional development scale. Besides, the second purpose of the study was to investigate whether the motivation toward web-based professional development perception of pre-service teachers differed according to gender, occupied or not and internet usage sufficiency.MethodCross sectional survey method, being one of the general survey methods, has been used in this research. The participants consisted of 599 pre-service teachers at the Faculty of Education in Sakarya University.ResultsThe scale consisted of 29 items and 6 sub-factors. Participants had average or above average scores in all sub-factors. It was found out that gender, occupied or not and internet usage sufficiency did not have a significant effect on motivation toward web-based professional development perception except social stimulation according to gender.Discussion and ConclusionsIn this study, the scale was adapted to Turkish. The adapted Turkish form was found to be consistent with the original form regarding item-factor consistency and structure. Furthermore Participants had average or above average scores in all sub-factors. Ministry of National Education is going to plan in-service training with web-based education next years. This result showed that future teachers’ have motivation about this.