Social and Pedagogical Drivers of ChatGPT Acceptance: An Extended TAM Model in Teacher Education
Abstract
Keywords
ChatGPT acceptance, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), technology acceptance model (TAM), constructivist teaching beliefs, pre-service teachers, structural equation modeling (SEM)
Ethical Statement
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