The relationship between digital literacy levels and lifelong learning tendencies of future teachers

With this research we aimed to determine the correlation between teacher candidates’ digital literacy levels and lifelong learning tendencies. This research was created as a mixed methods research. The quantitative group of the research consisted of 650 teacher candidates studying at the education faculties of different universities in Istanbul in the 2023–2024 academic year. The study group of the qualitative part of the research consisted of 25 faculty members working at different universities in Istanbul. Research data were obtained with the digital literacy scale, lifelong learning tendencies scale, and semi-structured knowledge collection form developed by the researchers. SPSS 25.0 statistical program was used to analyse the quantitative data and the content analysis method was used to analyse the qualitative data. Research results show that there was a moderately positive linear relationship between the digital literacy levels of teacher candidates and their lifelong learning tendencies. While the digital competencies and lifelong learning tendencies of teacher candidates differed according to gender and study year variables, there was no remarkable difference accordingly the year variable.