A STUDY TO ASSESS TEACHER EDUCATORS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION IN CLASSROOMS

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  • Nishta Rana Assistant Professor, MIER College of Education, B.C. Road, Jammu

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https://doi.org/10.52634/mier/2012/v2/i2/1569

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Attitude Towards Technology, Technology Integration, Teacher Education.

Abstract

The aim of this study was to assess the teacher educators' attitudes towards technology integration in classrooms. 21 teacher educators from a teacher education college of north India participated in this study. The data were collected with the help of a Teacher Educators' Attitude towards ICT Scale containing forty items. The results show that most of the teacher educators have positive attitudes towards the general role that information and communication technology can play in education and in the educational process. The findings also reveal that no gender differences exist on attitudestowardsICTinteachertraining. Furtheranalysisshedlightondifferencesin attitudes with respect to age.

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2012-11-10

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Nishta Rana. (2012). A STUDY TO ASSESS TEACHER EDUCATORS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION IN CLASSROOMS. MIER Journal of Educational Studies Trends and Practices, 2(2), 190–205. https://doi.org/10.52634/mier/2012/v2/i2/1569

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