Examining the Relationship between Teachers’ Individual Innovativeness and Technology Acceptance Status

Year 2015, Special Issue 2015 II, 60 - 69, 01.12.2015

Beyza Özkeş Sinan Kaya

https://doi.org/10.17275/per.15.spi.2.8

Cited By: 1

Abstract

teacher to use technology in effective way while teaching and learning. That investigation of technology acceptance status of teachers in terms of individual differences is suggested by the researchers in literature. In this context, that creating the relationship between the features of individual innovativeness and technology acceptance status is considered to be so essential. By means of study it has been aimed to search for the relationship between individual innovativeness and technology acceptance status.  Within this framework, it has been revealed the association between individual innovativeness and technology acceptance status. Relational survey modelwas used in this research and it’s a descriptive research. The study group of research contains 115 female and 102 male, totally 217 teachers who works in different departments.In the research, “Individual Innovativeness Scale” was used for stating teachers’ individual innovational features and “Technology Acceptance Scale for Teachers” was used the teaching-learning process to determine the status of teachers in technology acceptance. In the analysis of the data obtained, descriptive statistics, Pearson coefficient of correlationwere used.As a consequence of the data obtained, according to individual innovation features, the teachers’ individual innovativeness characteristics were determined to be early adopters category. Moreover, it has also been noticed that technology acceptance statuses of teachers were well. Basic correlation process defining whether there is a correlation among the features of individual innovativeness and technology acceptance status have shown that there is a correlation in a positive way, low and moderate levels and significantrelationship between the features of individual innovativeness and technology acceptance status.  It has been discovered that the factor between individual innovativeness features and the factor showing highest figure was perceived usefulness. And also the factor showing the lowest relation was self-efficacy

Keywords

Individual innovativeness, technology acceptance, teacher characteristics

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