Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
World Applied Sciences Journal, cilt.12, sa.11, ss.2061-2067, 2011 (Scopus)
Aim of this research is to determine the attitudes of students of Geography departments regarding Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and the relation between such attitudes and academic success. Total 26 students who receive education at the Süleyman Demirel University, Faculty of Science and Letters, Geography department in the 2009-2010 academic year have participated in the study. In this study, in which the relational research model has been used, data have been collected by means of the scale which was developed by West (2003) and was adapted (linguistically) to Turkish culture within the context of this research. Frequency, arithmetic mean and Pearson correlation analysis techniques have been used in the data analysis. According to the findings, attitudes of the students towards GIS are at a positive level. It has been determined that a meaningful relation exists between the attitudes of the students towards GIS and their academic success in the GIS course. However, it is also necessary to increase the amount of GIS courses and its applications. © IDOSI Publications, 2011.