EUN - Workpackage 16 Professional development of teachers: Integrating ICT in education

Dr. Sólveig Jakobsdóttir, KHÍ (Iceland University of Education)

Questionnaire: Existing practices and needs

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

Participants – Iceland

Mode/Groups

Reg., no D.E.

Mixed D.E.

B.Ed.T.Lic.

194

63

13

Grad 2 7

T.Educ.

1 7

Total: 62

2642%

1626%

2032%

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