Share Paper: Pre-Service Teachers' Technological Self-Efficacy - an Irish Perspective

  1. Alison Egan, Marino Institute of Education, Ireland
  2. Ann FitzGibbon, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Ireland
  3. Keith Johnston, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Ireland
  4. Elizabeth Oldham, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Ireland
Thursday, March 21 12:00-12:30 PM Sunset 3

Abstract: This study explores pre-service teachers’ confidence using technology on school placement. Two cohorts of pre-service teachers were surveyed, each over a three-year period, during their college preparation course. The study adopted a sequential explanatory mixed-method design, and the statistical analysis of the survey data is reported here. Personal technological self-efficacy at the time of entering college was not an indicator of use of technology during school placement. The results have wider implications for classroom technology integration in Irish education.