ERIC Number: EJ986113
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Dec
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ISSN: ISSN-0360-1315
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Pre-Service Teachers' Perspectives of the Diffusion of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) and the Effect of Case-Based Discussions (CBDs)
Sahin, Sami
Computers & Education, v59 n4 p1089-1098 Dec 2012
This study investigates pre-service teachers' perspectives of the diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in elementary education and the effect of case-based discussions (CBDs). The sample consisted of 170 first-year pre-service teachers from elementary teacher education programs of the largest teacher education college in Turkey. The cases used in the study were obtained from a case repository at http://ornekolay.org, indexing teaching cases from elementary classrooms of the capital city of Turkey. The cases were mainly text-based and presented stories of elementary teachers' in-class usage of ICTs. A quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design was executed to test the effect of pre-service teachers' perspectives on ICTs diffusion in elementary teaching. Three scales were developed based on Rogers' Diffusion of Innovation Theory (2003) to measure pre-service teachers' preferred innovativeness, innovation perceptions, and innovation decisions in the use of ICTs. The results showed that pre-service teachers had pre-established perspectives, mainly positive, about the diffusion of ICTs in elementary teaching; their perceptions about innovativeness and relative advantage were the main indicators of persuasion and decision; and CBDs positively affected their perceptions such that their computer-related persuasion and decisions positively increased. (Contains 4 figures and 1 table.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Elementary Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Rating Scales, Test Construction, Preferences, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Computer Uses in Education, Teacher Attitudes, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Quasiexperimental Design, Student Attitudes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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