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Measuring preparedness to teach with ICT

Author(s) -

Patricia Forster,

Vaille Dawson,

Doug Reid

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

australasian journal of educational technology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1449-5554

pISSN - 1449-3098

DOI - 10.14742/ajet.1340

Subject(s) - preparedness , unit (ring theory) , information and communications technology , medical education , psychology , mathematics education , relation (database) , rasch model , science education , computer science , medicine , political science , developmental psychology , database , world wide web , law

In this paper we discuss the development and implementation of a questionnaire that measures preparedness to teach secondary school science with information and communication technologies (ICT). The questionnaire was designed for the purpose of evaluating the effectiveness of instruction in a science education unit in a Graduate Diploma teacher education course. Rasch analysis of the pre- and post-unit responses indicated domains of expertise for which students perceived they had improved their knowledge during the unit, and domains for which they perceived they were less knowledgeable after the unit than before it. We discuss students' responses in relation to the unit, and report the technical decisions that we made as part of the analysis. The questionnaire could be adapted easily to suit preservice teacher education in disciplines other than science.

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