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EUN - Workpackage 16 Professional development of teachers: Integrating ICT in education. Questionnaire: Existing practices and needs. Dr. Sólveig Jakobsdóttir, KHÍ (Iceland University of Education). Purpose.
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EUN - Workpackage 16Professional development of teachers: Integrating ICT in education Questionnaire: Existing practices and needs Dr. Sólveig Jakobsdóttir, KHÍ (Iceland University of Education)
Purpose • Survey current practices used to train student teachers and teachers in-service in the use of ICT in education in a variety of cultural and linguistic contexts and in conventional face to face training and in tele-training environments. • Help identify needs of student teachers and teachers in relation to developing ICT use. • Help analyse effectiveness and pedagogy of ICT preparation found in different national solutions.
Participants • Iceland: Five different groups (teacher students and educators) within one institute (KHI). About 11-24%% of each group approached (116 people) and agreed to answer, about 7-13% actually did so, or 43%-64% of each group agreeing to participate (62 people). • UK: Five university departments, PGCE (post graduate certificate of education) • Italy: Teachers in-service, various schools, teacher educators, about 80 participants. • Portugal:teacher students
The questionnaire • On-line, (4 languages) • Info. about participant; perceived liklihood of using ICT with students and for professional development; content and quality of the teacher ed. program, organisation profile, ease and difficulty of use. • see example of English version on http://uranus.khi.is/eun16/eunwp16quest/ • Design based partly on and with sections from Betty Collis 4E model questionnaire • (see http://projects.edte.utwente.nl/4emodel/)
Procedure - Iceland • Data gathered in May-June 1999. • Potential participants randomly selected, phoned and asked to participate by answering on the phone or on the web themselves. • About 116 people approached agreed to participate but only 53% really did. However, it varied by group (43-44% teacher educators and grad students, 54 dist. ed. B.Ed. students, 60-64 of teacher license and regular B.Ed. students. • About 80-90% of people chose to answer themselves, not on the phone.
Data analysis • So far statistical analysis has been done for the Icelandic group only. Some of the main results are presented here: • http://www.khi.is/~soljak/eunquestresults