This study is aimed at examining teachers' level of ICT utilization and teaching efficiency, and children's level of ICT utilization, and especially analyzing what factor predicts children's level of ICT utilization most well among variables concernin...
This study is aimed at examining teachers' level of ICT utilization and teaching efficiency, and children's level of ICT utilization, and especially analyzing what factor predicts children's level of ICT utilization most well among variables concerning teachers, the level of ICT utilization and teaching efficiency.
In order to carry out the above study purposes, the author has set up the following study subjects.
1. How variables concerning teachers, the level of ICT utilization and teaching efficiency are relevant to one another?
1-1. What relationship exists between variables concerning teachers and the level of ICT utilization?
1-2. What relationship exists between variables concerning teachers and teaching efficiency?
1-3. What relationship exists between teachers' level of ICT utilization and teaching efficiency?
2. What effects teachers' level of ICT utilization and teaching efficiency has on children's level of ICT utilization?
2-1. What relationship exists between teachers' level of ICT utilization and that of children?
2-2. What relationship exists between teachers' teaching efficiency and children's level of ICT utilization?
3. What is the most well predicting factor about children's level of ICT utilization among variables concerning teachers, the level of ICT utilization and teaching efficiency?
In order to deal with these study subjects, the author asked to participate in this study for 68 teachers working at institutes for children's education or day nurseries (attached kindergartens, kindergartens and day care centers for babies), which is performing classes utilizing ICT and located in Seoul and the Gyenoggi Province, and their 68 charging children who are in the age of five, either boy or girl. The author re-collected the data on them from April, 6 to 30 in 2005. After sending cooperation paper to relevant authorities, asking whether the ICT classes are being performed or not by phone, and obtaining their consent, the author let teachers in charge of children in the age of five there now directly fill the questionnaires. In order to estimate the level of children's ICT utilization, the author and charging teachers directly interviewed face to face and observed children, and this was performed at children's free activity times and spent 10 to 15 minutes for a child.
SPSS 12.0 was used for the data treatment for this study, and its methods are like the following. First, the author produced Cronbach‘s'a values to verify the level of confidence, did frequencies, percentages, averages and standard deviations of relevant variables composed of the entire 13 items to find what meaningful effects variables concerning teachers have on teachers' level of ICT utilization and teaching efficiency. Second, the author gained averages and standard deviations and carried out Pearson's regression analysis to find the first study subjects--the relationships between variables concerning teachers, the ability to utilize the ICT and teaching efficiency. In order to find the second study subjects--the relationships between teachers' level of ICT utilization, teaching efficiency and children's level of ICT utilization, the author performed Pearson's regression analysis. Third, the author used a multiple regression analysis on to find which factor is the most well predicting one about children's level of ICT utilization among variables concerning teachers, the level of ICT utilization and teaching efficiency.
The epitomization of this study is like the following.
First, in regard of variables concerning teachers, higher backgrounds of teachers led to a higher level of ICT utilization, and the more completed subjects and more experiences for education and training relative to ICT they had, the more positive correlations with the level of ICT utilization they possessed. On the other hand, in regard of variables concerning teachers and teaching efficiency, the higher backgrounds, higher graded certifications, higher number of purchased books on ICT and more experiences for training they had, the efficient teaching they showed.
Second, in regard of the utilization of ICT, higher levels in its steps produced the two thoughts: the one is the general teaching efficiency that teaching at education institutes for children relatively has a bigger effect on children compared with other factors such as domestic environments and children's ability, and the other is that personal teaching efficiency that teachers have the ability to influence their children supported by teachers themselves.
Third, in regard of the three steps for teachers' level of ICT utilization, the higher steps they had, the higher level of ICT utilization their children had. In addition, the higher personal and general teaching efficiencies, teachers had, the higher level of ICT utilization their children showed.
Finally, the author made a multiple regression analysis focusing on meaningful variables for the stated correlation analysis in order to find variables for predicting children's attitudes toward ICT utilization and skills for it, and their level of its utilization, so that the highest explanatory variable was teachers' level of ICT utilization followed by teachers' final educational backgrounds and the number of classes for ICT completed by them. This suggests that teachers' higher level of ICT utilization, higher final educational backgrounds and higher number of completed classes for ICT produce better level of children's ICT utilization. Moreover, another result of this study suggests that the number of classes for ICT completed by teachers and the personal teaching efficiency play a role in predicting children's level of ICT utilization as variables.