THE ROLE OF TEACHERS’ ATTITUDES TOWARD TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION IN SCHOOL

Yıl 2015, Cilt: 3 , 129 - 138, 01.09.2015

Aliya Mustafına

Öz

Under
the increasing pressure of globalization epoch, which dictated the need of
adopting informatization reform, the government of the Republic of Kazakhstan
from 1997 started operating a systematic state policy for informatization of
education. Many scholarly papers show that the success of the educational
reform efforts depend not only on the ability of the government to supply all
schools with ICT, but also on the ability to make teachers possess positive
attitudes toward ICT integration. This study will contribute to the existing
knowledge by providing a real picture of the process of ICT integration in
Kazakhstani secondary schools through the lens of the main facilitators of this
process – teachers. Most of previous studies pointed out that ICT’s successful
integration in school is supposed to have a positive impact on students’
academic motivation. However, these topics received little attention in the
literature. In order to fill up the gap in our knowledge, the purpose of this
paper is to gain insight into the teachers’ attitudes toward ICT, examining the
relationship between their attitudes and students’ academic motivation. The
study applies the Mixed Methods (a combination of quantitative and qualitative
methods) Explanatory Sequential Design, which aims to provide a better
understanding of the research problem and questions than either method used by
itself. 

Anahtar Kelimeler

ICT, teachers’ attitudes, technology integration

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