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Problems of educational innovation: the primary teacher's response to using the microcomputer
Author(s) -
Heywood G.,
Norman P.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of computer assisted learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.583
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1365-2729
pISSN - 0266-4909
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2729.1988.tb00091.x
Subject(s) - attribution , microcomputer , rationalization (economics) , mathematics education , primary education , computer science , teacher education , psychology , social psychology , telecommunications , management , chip , economics
Abstract An important source of data in ascertaining why teachers avoid using the computer are teachers themselves. Attribution Theory encourages the rationalization of individual actions which may then form a cumulative pattern across and within pre‐specified groups (in this case, primary schools). Such attributions may be used in the design of in‐service education about educational computing.