Abstract

Today, the spread of Internet use has accelerated the development of educational technologies and increased the quality of education by encouraging teachers’ cooperation and participation. As a result, examinations executed via the Internet have become common, and a number of universities have started using distant education management system. Eventually, today, more people have a chance to take education. Measurement and evaluation applications carried out via the Internet are now quite important for education. In the present study, a valid and reliable attitude scale was developed to measure the attitudes of students doing the Distant Education Theology Undergraduate Education Program towards a web-based examination system (MOODLE).The study group was made up of 1287 3rd and 4th grade students registered in the Distant Education Application and Research Center. In the study, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was conducted to determine the factor structure of the scale; confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted to test its construct validity; and other validity analyses such as exploratory factor analysis, uni-dimensional factor analysis and two-dimensional factor analysis were applied. The research data were analyzed in computer with the package softwares of SPSS 18.0 and Lisrel 8.51.

Key words: Attitude, moodle, education technology.