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Teachers' Attitudes toward Technology Integration in Schools: A Four-Year Study
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Liu, Yuliang; Szabo, Zsuzsanna – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
This trend study was designed to examine a current trend and pattern, as well as a development of teachers' concerns about technology integration in the curriculum. The study was conducted by repeated cross-sectional studies, applying the same research instrument to different samples of subjects at different points, over a period of four years…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Educational Technology, Teacher Attitudes, Computer Attitudes
Learner-Centeredness and Teacher Efficacy: Predicting Teachers' Consequence Concerns regarding the Use of Technology in the Classroom
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Dunn, Karee E.; Rakes, Glenda C. – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2010
After more than two decades of concerted effort, less than desirable progress has been made in the integration of effective technology use in the classroom. In many cases computers have entered classrooms, but are used to do little more than support existing teaching practices (i.e. PowerPoint read as lecture). Research suggests that teachers…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Faculty Development, Teaching Methods, Computer Uses in Education
Teachers' Attitudes Toward WebQuests as a Method of Teaching
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Perkins, Robert; McKnight, Margaret L. – Computers in the Schools, 2005
One of the latest uses of technology gaining popular status in education is the WebQuest, a process that involves students using the World Wide Web to solve a problem. The goals of this project are to: (a) determine if teachers are using WebQuests in their classrooms; (b) ascertain whether teachers feel WebQuests are effective for teaching…
Descriptors: Internet, Computer Uses in Education
Concerns of Teachers about Technology Integration in the USA
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Liu, Yuliang; Huang, Carol – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2005
This study was designed to examine the current trend and pattern of teachers' concerns about technology integration. Eighty-six in-service teachers in a graduate course participated in the study at a midwestern state university during the summer semester of 2002. The Stages of Concerns (SoC) Questionnaire was used to assess teachers' seven stages…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Teacher Attitudes
Prescribing Interventions for Internet Novices Based on Stages of Concern.
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Chen, Ming-Puu – Educational Media International, 1999
Examines the type of innovation-decision (authority-decision versus optional decision) and type of intervention (concern-based versus non-concern-based) on arousing educators' concerns toward the Internet. Results suggest that authority-decision is more effective than optional-decision and concern-based intervention more effective than…
Descriptors: Computer Anxiety, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Attitudes, Computer Uses in Education
Microcomputers in the Classroom: Focusing on Teacher Concerns.
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Cicchelli, Terry; Baecher, Richard – Educational Research Quarterly, 1989
Teacher concerns about introducing microcomputers into the classroom were studied. Seventy-eight teachers at elementary (n=24), junior high (n=7), and senior high (n=47) school levels completed the Stages of Concern Questionnaire. Concerns developed in a hierarchical order, from self to task to impact. Inservice activities matching concern areas…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary School Teachers
Resolving Teachers' Concerns about Microcomputer Technology.
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Hope, Warren C. – Computers in the Schools, 1997
Discusses the effects of change and innovations on teachers. Describes the use of the Stages of Concern Questionnaire of the Concerns-Based Adoption Model to examine teachers' concerns about the introduction of microcomputer technology in an elementary school. Addresses the importance of teacher training. (LRW)
Descriptors: Change, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Attitudes, Computer Uses in Education