Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Ordu Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Sosyal Bilimler Araştırmaları Dergisi, cilt.13, sa.1, ss.1-24, 2023 (Hakemli Dergi)
The main purpose of this study is to determine how the distance social work education experienced by the students
of the social work department during the pandemic process affect the field and program competencies required
by the social work profession, through a scale developed. For this main purpose, it has been investigated how the
social work students' perception levels of field and program competency during the pandemic process and what
the variables affecting these perception levels are. In this research, which is in the comparative type relational
survey model, the participants are 414 students studying in Social Work Undergraduate Programs in the 2021-
2022 academic year. In determining the sample size, the number corresponding to 95% confidence level and 5%
acceptable margin of error according to the number constituting the research population and the number that is
5 times the number of items in the scale were taken as basis. The data were collected through the “Social Work
Department Field and Program Competencies Perception Scale” (SWDFPCPS) developed by the researcher.
SWDFPCPS consists of two parts. In the first part of the scale, there are 15 questions to determine the personal
and demographic information of the students and their attitudes towards distance education and distance social
work education, and in the second part, there are 17 items related to the field and program competencies of social
work department on a 5-point Likert-type scale consisting of 5 choices, from 1=Strongly Disagree to 5=Strongly
Agree. SPSS 21.00 statistical package program was used in the analysis of the data. Exploratory factor analysis
and varimax rotation technique were used to understand whether the SWDFPCPS consists of items measuring
the same quality. The reliability coefficient of SWDFPCPS was calculated with the Cronbach α formula, and the
relationship between the response given to each item in the scale and the total score obtained from the scale was
calculated using the Item-Total Correlation technique. The field and program competency perceptions of the
students receiving social work education in Turkey were evaluated using the median, mode and arithmetic mean
on the basis of all scales. The results revealed that the scale used in the collection of data in the research is valid
and reliable, the distance education process affects the field and program competence perceptions of social
worker candidates. At the same time, the findings from this study show that age, satisfaction with receiving social
work education remotely, the benefits and effectiveness of the methods and tools used in the distance education
process are important variables that affect competence perceptions of social work students.