The Level of Awareness of Health-Saving Educational Technologies Affects University Students' Cognitive and Educational Skills

The aim of this study is to longitudinally examine the cognitive and educational skills of university students regarding health-saving educational technologies (HSETs) through observation.In this context, 325 students affiliated to the faculty of education were included in the study.At the same time, 35 faculty members followed these students through observation between 2020-2023.In this context, the participants' cognitive skills, activation criterion levels, motivational needs criteria, and morale-value criteria were scored between 0 and 10 by each teacher.Accordingly, the participant's cognitive and educational levels of HSETs were determined as optimal (10 points), sufficient (8 points), acceptable (6 points), and critical (4 points).According to the findings, the cognitive criterion level of the participants decreased from 53.3 % to 8.1 %, the active criterion level from 64 % to 50 %, the motivational-need criterion level from 64.6 % to 42.6 %, and the moral value level from 36.2 % to 6.1 %.As a result, according to teacher observations, students' cognitive and educational skills towards HSETs have improved a lot.However, the level of activity criterion and motivational-need criterion was still high.Therefore, in order to improve the HSETs skills of the students, the curriculum could include the acquisition of these skills.