مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - Development of Technology Integration Scale for Teachers

Abstract :

Determination of the teachers’ technology integration levels gives important information about not only investigating the usefulness of educational technologies but also deciding how to plan the support and training activities for teachers. At this study, it is aimed to develop an instrument that can determine teachers’ ICT integration levels. For this aim, a draft item pool is prepared, interviews with teachers are made and the draft instrument is implemented after asking the experts’ opinion. At the first trial implementation, although the results of the exploratory factor analysis were acceptable, the results of the confirmatory factor analysis were not at the acceptable level. So instrument development steps were repeated. After the second implementation the exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis results were between acceptable levels. In light of the foregoing, it can be said that a valid and reliable instrument, which can be used to determine teachers ICT integration levels is developed with this study. These findings are discussed with the light of literature.