Pre-service Teachers Readiness to Integrate ICT in their Teaching (original) (raw)

Information Communication Technology (ICT) has shown significant improvement on student's motivation in learning. As a result, the education policy of Maldives puts a high emphasis on integrating ICT in education from K-12. This made it compulsory to include an ICT in Education module in every Teacher Training course in the country. Hence it is important to find out if the preservice teachers are ready to integrate technology in classroom. Therefore, the aim of this study is to identify the relationship between Pre-service teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), and their attitude towards using ICT. Technology Acceptance model (TAM) was used as a conceptual framework to check the attitude of the teachers and TPACK model was used as an external variable. Data were collected from 135 pre-service teachers from Bachelor of Education programs who were studying in their final year in 4 educational institutes in Maldives. The result suggests that TPACK and teachers' attitude towards using ICT are positively correlated. It also showed that the Pre-service teachers have varying Technological Knowledge (TK) which directly affect their integration of ICT into teaching. This study discussed the role of teacher training institutions on how to improve teacher's TK and TPACK. These findings can be a good stepping stone to better prepare pre-service teachers for technology integration in education.