Akademik Məlumat İdarəetmə Sistemi
Sosyal Politika ve Sosyal Hizmet Çalışmaları Dergisi, vol.4, no.1, pp.1-16, 2023 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
The aim of this study is to evaluate the distance education practices offered to social work
undergraduate and graduate students during the Covid-19 pandemic from the perspective of students
and to make suggestions for the development of educational activities in the light of these evaluations.
The study was designed within the scope of the quantitative paradigm and using the descriptive model,
which is one of the survey models. The population of the study is undergraduate and graduate students
continuing their education within the social work department in Turkey, and 446 social work
undergraduate and graduate students were reached to represent the population within the scope of
the study. The questionnaire form developed by Smoyer et al. (2020) and adapted into Turkish by the
research team was used as a data collection tool. Some of the main findings presented in the study
reveal that the theoretical courses within the scope of distance education during the pandemic process
were mostly taught in a synchronous model (94.4%), the view that "course recordings can be watched
later (30.1%)" stands out as the strongest aspect of distance education, and 79.6% of the participants
found face-to-face education more beneficial than distance education. At the same time, 82.1% of the
participants stated that they did homework, 77.1% of them took online multiple-choice exams and
64.8% of them took take-home exams. The findings are valuable for evaluating the strengths and
weaknesses of distance education processes and making necessary improvements.
Keywords: Distance education, social work, social work students, pandemic