The importance of attitudes toward technology for pre-service teachers' technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge: Comparing structural equation modeling approaches

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Scherer R., Tondeur J., Siddiq F., Baran E.

COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR, cilt.80, ss.67-80, 2018 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 80
  • Basım Tarihi: 2018
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.chb.2017.11.003
  • Dergi Adı: COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.67-80
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Attitudes toward technology, Latent variable models, Substantive-methodological synergism, Teacher education, Technological, Pedagogical, Content knowledge (TPACK), GOODNESS-OF-FIT, SELF-EFFICACY, ACCEPTANCE MODEL, MEASUREMENT INVARIANCE, MULTIGROUP INVARIANCE, SCHOOL-STUDENTS, COMPUTER USE, ICT USAGE, TPACK, INTENTION
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

A large body of literature suggests that attitudes toward technology and its educational use are important determinants of technology acceptance and integration in classrooms. At the same time, teachers' Technological, Pedagogical, and Content Knowledge (TPACK) facilitates the meaningful use of technology for educational purposes. Overall, attitudes toward technology and TPACK play a critical role for technology integration and have been in the focus of many empirical studies. Albeit the attention that has been paid to these two concepts, their relation has not been fully understood. The present study contributes to the advancement of this understanding by examining the relations between three core technology attitudes (i.e., general attitudes towards ICT, attitudes towards ICT in education, and ease of use) and TPACK self-efficacy beliefs, based on a sample of N = 688 Flemish pre-service teachers in 18 teacher-training institutions. Using a variety of structural equation modeling approaches, we describe the TPACK-attitudes relations from multiple perspectives and present a substantive-methodological synergism. The analyses revealed that the attitudes toward technology and TPACK self-beliefs were positively related; yet, differences across the attitudes and TPACK dimensions existed, pointing to the delineation of general and educational perspectives on the use of ICE. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.