Elementary School Teachers' Perceptions toward ICT: The Case of Using Magic Board for Teaching Mathematics

Autor/inn/en	Yuan, Yuan; Lee, Chun-Yi
Titel	Elementary School Teachers' Perceptions toward ICT: The Case of Using Magic Board for Teaching Mathematics
Quelle	In: Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 11 (2012) 4, S.108-118 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1303-6521
Schlagwörter	Educational Technology; Foreign Countries; Technology Integration; Mathematics Instruction; Elementary School Teachers; Gender Differences; Teacher Attitudes; Computer Uses in Education; Web Based Instruction; Interaction; Manipulative Materials; Elementary School Mathematics; Teaching Methods; Scores; Teacher Competencies; Taiwan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Unterrichtsmedien; Ausland; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Geschlechterkonflikt; Lehrerverhalten; Computernutzung; Web Based Training; Interaktion; Hilfsmittel; Elementare Mathematik; Schulmathematik; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Lehrkunst
Abstract	This study aims at investigating elementary school teachers' perceptions toward to the use of ICT. Magic Board, an interactive web-based environment which provides a set of virtual manipulatives for elementary mathematics, is used as the case of ICT. After participating in Magic Board workshops, 250 elementary school teachers in Taiwan responded to a researcher developed questionnaire to get teachers' perceptions toward the use of Magic Board. The study revealed that teachers rated high scores on perceived teaching assistance, perceived learning assistance, and perceived competence of technology integration. The correlation among the three subscales indicates that teachers had a higher score on one scale correlated with higher scores on the other two scales. Findings show no gender difference on perceptions toward Magic Board. However, teachers who have data projectors in their classrooms rated higher scores on perceived teaching assistance and perceived competence of technology integration than those without data projectors in their classrooms. Lastly, this study discusses implications for these results and recommendations for future research. (Contains 7 tables and 4 figures.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Sakarya University. Esentepe Campus, Adapazari 54000, Turkey. Tel: +90-505-2431868; Fax: +90-264-6141034; e-mail: tojet@sakarya.edu.tr; Web site: http://www.tojet.net
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10