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ERIC Number: EJ723696
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004
Pages: 15
Abstractor: Author
Reference Count: 0
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1059-7069
How Are We Doing? Using Self-Assessment to Measure Changing Teacher Technology Literacy Within a Graduate Educational Technology Program
Topper, Andrew
Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, v12 n3 p303-317 2004
This study reports on development and testing of a simple self-assessment instrument used for documenting inservice teachers' changing knowledge, skill, and dispositions towards technology within a graduate teacher education program. The current movement towards standards for technology in teacher education provides an opportunity to begin to study how teachers' changing technology competence also influence their plans for integrating technology into their classroom practices. Quantitative data are analyzed to demonstrate growing competence with technology as a result of an introductory course focused on educational uses of productivity tools. The results suggest that inservice teachers enter graduate programs with the same limited set of skills and knowledge that preservice teachers leave undergraduate programs with, but these skills can be upgraded when teachers are exposed to a course in educational technology. The results also suggest that even though we are doing an adequate job of preparing our students (inservice teachers), we can do more to help them begin to integrate technology into their teaching practices.
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, P.O. Box 1545, Chesapeake, VA 23327-1545. Tel: 757-366-5606.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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