The Impact of Digital Skills and Digital Attitude on Teachers' Technology Use

• In Event: 54.048 - Technological Tools: Teaching, Learning, and Leading in a Digital Era

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to explore the impact of digital skills and digital attitude on teachers’ technology use. A survey study was conducted to address a series of research questions related to this purpose. Data were collected from 314 Chinese teachers. A series of logistic regression analysis showed that teachers’ digital skills positively predicted their technology use in the school setting and in their classroom teaching, as well as their use of computer-mediated visualizations for teaching. The results also revealed that their positive attitude towards information retrieval also predicted their technology use in the aforementioned three outcome variables. These findings, as well as implications, were discussed.

Authors

• Lijia Lin, East China Normal University

• Xiulei Zhang, East China Normal University

• Youqun Ren, East China Normal University

• Jiangshan Sun, East China Normal University

• Jian Zhao, East China Normal University