School learning support for teacher technology integration from a self-determination theory perspective     

Chiu  Thomas K.F. 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2022,70(3):931-949

Teacher technology integration research on persistence is needed. Teachers’ persistence is strongly associated with their autonomous motivation, as defined by self-determination theory (SDT); however, most SDT-based studies have focused on teachers’ support and students’ motivation and well-being. SDT founders also recently suggested that future studies should include teacher motivation towards the use of technology. Accordingly, this experimental and longitudinal study aimed to investigate how the proposed support encouraged and sustained the low- and high- quality teachers’ integration practices. It proposed a school learning support intervention with three dimensions—leader, expert, and peer support—to meet teachers’ basic needs and thereby increase their motivation for and persistence in classroom technology integration. It had a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design, involved 122 school teachers and lasted for 22 months. Pre-, post- and delay- questionnaires and two arounds of interviews were used to collect the teachers perceptions on needs satisfaction and technology integration practices. The results suggest that the support increased the extent to which the teachers’ needs were met, resulting in more high-quality (student-centered) but not low-quality (lecturing) integration practices. However, the intervention sustained both types of integration practices. The findings offer three major empirical implications, makes two theoretical contributions, and offers four practical suggestions for researchers and practitioners.

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Understanding Complex Ecosystems Through an Agent-Based Participatory Watershed Simulation     

Jeong  Soojeong  Elliott  Jennifer B.  Feng  Zhang  Feldon  David F. 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2022,31(5):691-705

Journal of Science Education and Technology - The properties and functions of complex systems apply across a variety of domains of science and are at the heart of the solutions to many global...  相似文献   

On Rest-from-Deliberate-Learning as a Mechanism for the Spacing Effect: Commentary on Chen et al. (2021)     

Sana  Faria  Yan  Veronica X.  Carvalho  Paulo F. 《Educational Psychology Review》2022,34(3):1843-1850

Educational Psychology Review - In their recent paper, Chen et al. (Educational Psychology Review, 2021) propose that rest periods between deliberate learning characterize the spacing effect and...  相似文献   

Movement and engagement in flexible,technology-enhanced classrooms: investigating cognitive and emotional engagement from the faculty perspective     

Ozkan Bekiroglu  Saliha  Ramsay  Crystal M.  Robert  Jenay 《Learning Environments Research》2022,25(2):359-377

Learning Environments Research - The main objective of the study was to understand specific ways in which a flexible, technology-enhanced space can create opportunities for student engagement....  相似文献   

The missing link: The parental voice in Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs     

Keane  Therese  Keane  William F. 《Education and Information Technologies》2022,27(6):7699-7719

Education and Information Technologies - This paper reports on the parental perspective on one school’s implementation of a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Program to ensure students had access...  相似文献   

Secondary Students’ Stable and Unstable Optics Conceptions Using Contextualized Questions     

Hye-Eun Chu  David F. Treagust 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2014,23(2):238-251

This study focuses on elucidating and explaining reasons for the stability of and interrelationships between students’ conceptions about Light Propagation and Visibility of Objects using contextualized questions across 3 years of secondary schooling from Years 7 to 9. In a large-scale quantitative study involving 1,233 Korean students and 1,149 Singaporean students, data were analyzed from responses to the Light Propagation Diagnostic Instrument consisting of four pairs of items, each of which evaluated the same concept in two different problem situations. Findings show that only about 10–45 % of students could apply their conceptions of basic optics in contextualized problem situations giving rise to both stable and unstable alternative conceptions. Students’ understanding of Light Propagation concepts compared with Visibility of Objects concepts was more stable in different problem situations. The concepts of Light Propagation and Visibility of Objects were only moderately correlated. School grade was not a strong predictive variable, but students’ school achievement correlated strongly with their conceptual understanding in optics. The teaching and learning approach and education systems in the two countries may have had some influence on students’ conceptual understanding.  相似文献   

Measuring Student Attitude and Knowledge in Technology-Rich Biology Classrooms     

Lisa Incantalupo  David F. Treagust  Rekha Koul 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2014,23(1):98-107

The use of technology in schools is now ubiquitous, but the effectiveness on the learning environment has mixed results. This paper describes the development and validation of an instrument to measure students’ attitudes toward and knowledge of technology with the aim of investigating any differences based on gender after a course where the science department made use of technology as an integral part of teaching biology. In this study, conducted in one school in the state of New York, in the United States of America, the Students’ Attitudes Toward and Knowledge of Technology Questionnaire was administered to nearly 700 high school science students. A principal component and principal factor analysis resulted in new scales from the validation of the instrument that demonstrated high reliabilities. There were statistically significant gender differences in all the scales of the questionnaire in favor of males.  相似文献   

Responding to teacher shortages: relationships among mobility experiences,attitudes, and intentions of Dutch teachers     

Renske E. van Geffen  Rob F. Poell 《Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education》2014,42(3):275-290

From all over the world there have been calls from governmental institutions to address a shortage of high quality teachers. As changing jobs generates new experiences, job mobility could be a way for teachers to adhere to the government’s call to develop themselves into the teaching force needed. The research question of this study was: How do the experience with mobility and the attitude towards mobility of Dutch secondary school teachers shape their intentions to be mobile? A secondary analysis was conducted on data collected among 1261 respondents. Attitudes towards mobility were found to be linked to past experience with mobility and there is a strong relationship between the attitude towards mobility and the intention to be mobile. The control variables age, experience in teaching, and type of employment seem to have an effect as well. Implications for the teacher shortage issue are discussed.  相似文献   

Impact of accreditation on public and private universities: a comparative study     

Dattey  Kwame  Westerheijden  Don F.  Hofman  Wiecher H. Adriaan 《Tertiary Education and Management》2014,20(4):307-319

Based on two cycles of assessments for accreditation, this study assesses the differential impacts of accreditation on public and private universities in Ghana. Analysis of the evaluator reports indicates no statistically significant difference – improvement or deterioration – between the two cycles of evaluations for both types of institutions. A test comparing the two-cycle aggregated assessment scores between the two categories of universities, however, indicated a significant difference, with the public universities achieving better scores (improvements). Drawing on the evaluators’ reports and the opinions expressed by academics from both categories of institutions, the conclusion was that isomorphic pressures, largely faced by the private universities, accounted for their implementation of suggestions for improvement by the evaluators.  相似文献   

Children’s recall and motivation for an environmental education video with supporting pedagogical materials     

Fátima Viteri  Geraldine Clarebout  Marion Crauwels 《Environmental Education Research》2014,20(2):228-247

This study examined recall (Rcl) differences of high, average and low achieving fifth-grade elementary students (72) for an environmental education video with supporting pedagogical materials. In addition, it assessed the motivational level of all students. Recall assessment was carried out one-week and twenty-weeks after intervention. Main findings suggest comparative Rcl results for all achievers and high motivation for the designed video and pedagogical materials. Implications for future research and for an integrative materials’ design approach are presented.  相似文献