Validating a Measure of Teacher Intentions to Integrate Technology in Education in Turkey, Spain and the USA

Serkan Perkmen, Balikesir University, Turkey ; Pavlo Antonenko, University of Florida, United States ; Alfonso Caracuel, Universidad de Granada, Spain

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Volume 24, Number 2, April 2016 ISSN 1059-7069 Publisher: Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education, Chesapeake, VA

https://www.learntechlib.org/p/152244/

The majority of the participants were female. All of the participants were junior and senior students enrolled in elementary teacher education programs. Specifically, this study compared pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy, outcome expectations, intentions (internal factors) and perceived school climate (external factor) for technology integration in education in these countries.

Unlike Turkey and the US, self-efficacy predicted technology integration intention to a smaller degree than school climate in the Spanish sample. Interestingly, outcome expectations scores did not make a statistically significant contribution to predicting pre-service teachers’ intention to use technology in the US sample.