Pre-Service Teachers' Perspectives of the Diffusion of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) and the Effect of Case-Based Discussions (CBDs)

Autor/in	Sahin, Sami
Titel	Pre-Service Teachers' Perspectives of the Diffusion of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) and the Effect of Case-Based Discussions (CBDs)
Quelle	In: Computers & Education, 59 (2012) 4, S.1089-1098 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0360-1315
DOI	10.1016/j.compedu.2012.04.007
Schlagwörter	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; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Elementarunterricht; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Rating-Skala; Testaufbau; Case method; Fallmethode; Unterrichtsmedien; Computernutzung; Lehrerverhalten; Unterrichtserfolg; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Schülerverhalten; Türkei
Abstract	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.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10