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Makale Özeti:
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The present investigation was conducted to describe and compare the
background variables, personal characteristics and academic performance of
secondary teacher trainees in distance education and face-to-face mode. The
results indicated that teacher trainees in distance education differed from
their counterparts in age, marital status, sex and socio-economic status.
Distance trainees outperformed the on-campus trainees on their preference
for left-hemispheric styles of learning and thinking, budgeting time, learning
motivation, overall study habits, academic motivation, attitude towards
education, work methods, interpersonal relations, and on their perception
about relevance of course content of theory papers in B.Ed., but on-campus
trainees outperformed distance trainees on preference for right-hemispheric
learning styles, need for achievement, motivation for sports, attitude towards
teaching profession, child-centered practices, teachers, overall attitude
towards teaching along with their perception for development of teaching
skills and attitude, personality development during B.Ed. course.
In academic performance distance trainees lag behind the on-campus trainee
in their marks in theory papers, skills in teaching and in aggregate
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