EXAMINATION OF ATTITUDES OF COMPULSORY EDUCATION TEACHERS IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA TOWARD THE INTEGRATION OF ICT TECHNOLOGY IN DAILY WORK

Year 2014, Volume: 1 , 243 - 249, 01.09.2014

Ljubica Bakıć-tomıć

Abstract

There are a
number of measurement instruments in the field of education the aims of which
are to measure various aspects of educational technology. The instrument that
we used in this study is a survey of social and technical factors affecting teachers'
use of technology designed by E. Papanastasiou and C. Angeli in 2008. The
sample of this study included 413 teachers teaching in public elementary
schools in Zagreb. The aim of this study is to show social and technical
factors that play an important role in the successful integration of ICT in
schools and to answer the question to what extent and how each of these factors
affects the successful integration of ICT in schools.

Keywords

Teachers' use of ICT, social factors affecting teachers' use of technology, technical factors affecting teachers' use of technology, public elementary schools in Zagreb

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