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Pre‐course IT skills of teacher trainees: a longitudinal study
Author(s) -
Liénard B.
Publication year - 1995
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.1365-2729.1995.tb00123.x
Subject(s) - course (navigation) , mathematics education , certificate , psychology , longitudinal study , medical education , longitudinal data , descriptive statistics , teacher education , computer science , medicine , statistics , pathology , physics , mathematics , algorithm , astronomy , data mining
Data descriptive of the prior IT experience of Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) students for the academic years 1992/3 and 1993/4 are presented, together with data previously reported for students during academic years 1989/90 and 1991/2. Longitudinal trends over a period of 5 years from a total of over 2500 students are examined. The implications for IT training provision within initial teacher training courses are considered in the light of these findings. A simple numerical measure of prior IT use is developed which has been used to inform tutors of their students' prior experience and pinpoint those in need of differentiated IT training during their course.