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Distance education, which is a planned way of teaching in which students and instructors
are brought face to face in a classroom environment in several different ways by means
of technology, has started to become widespread in many fields today. In distance
education, students and instructors reside in different locations. Students can learn at
their pace and control their learning path, content and load of what they have learned
and evaluate it. However, they should adopt strategies for effective studying in order not
to waste their time and efforts. Because study skills, motivation, time management,
exam preparation and coping with exam stress have an impact on students’ success. In
this context, distance education students’ study skills are foregrounded in today’s
widespread use of distance education. In accordance with this, this study aims to
investigate some variables which are influential on the dimensions of distance education
students’ motivation, time management, exam preparation and coping with exam stress.
A personal information form and the Study Skills scale were used for data collection. This
study was designed in survey model and SPSS16.0 statistical package program was used
for the statistical analyses of the research data. The research findings were discussed in
line with the literature and some suggestions were presented for further research and
researchers.
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