The impact of student teaching experience on pre-service teachers’ readiness for technology integration: A mixed methods study with growth curve modeling |
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| Authors: | Yan Sun Johannes Strobel Timothy J Newby |
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| Institution: | 1.College of Education,University of West Alabama,Livingston,USA;2.School of Information Science & Learning Technologies,University of Missouri,Columbia,USA;3.College of Education,Purdue University,West Lafayette,USA |
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| Abstract: | Adopting a two-phase explanatory sequential mixed methods research design, the current study examined the impact of student teaching experiences on pre-service teachers’ readiness for technology integration. In phase-1 of quantitative investigation, 2-level growth curve models were fitted using online repeated measures survey data collected from 68 pre-service teachers doing their student teaching. The results revealed significant progress in readiness for technology integration during student teaching and significant variability in individual change trajectories of readiness for technology integration. Two dummy variables, prior-teaching (0 = “having no prior teaching experience”; 1 = “having prior teaching experience”) and grade-level (0 = “elementary level”; 1 = “secondary level”), were identified as significant in predicting the shape of individual change trajectories of readiness for technology integration. In phase-2 of qualitative investigation, follow-up interview data were collected from 11 pre-service teachers among those who participated in the online surveys. The interview data was analyzed both deductively and inductively yielding clues and insights for interpreting and understanding the quantitative results from phase-1. Based on its quantitative and qualitative results, this study made recommendations for future technology integration research and for improving pre-service teachers’ technology use experience during student teaching. |
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