Primary teachers' attitudes towards using new technology and stimulating higher-order thinking in students: A profile analysis.

Autor: Wijnen F; Department of Teacher Development, ELAN, University of Twente, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands., Walma van der Molen J; Department of Teacher Development, ELAN, University of Twente, 7522 NB Enschede, The Netherlands., Voogt J; Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, 1012 WX Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Education and information technologies [Educ Inf Technol (Dordr)] 2023; Vol. 28 (6), pp. 6347-6372. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Nov 11.
DOI: 10.1007/s10639-022-11413-w
Abstrakt: Critical thinking, creative thinking, problem solving and other so-called higher-order thinking skills are regarded as crucial for students to develop. Research shows that technology can be used as a tool to stimulate students' higher-order thinking skills. However, most teachers rarely use new technology to stimulate students to engage in higher-order thinking. To help teachers in this, we need to gain an understanding of teachers' attitudes towards using new technology and towards stimulating higher-order thinking. In this study, we explore these teacher attitudes by identifying teacher profiles based on primary school teachers' attitudes (N = 659) towards (a) using new technology and (b) stimulating higher-order thinking. Results of the cluster-analysis revealed three teacher profiles. In follow-up focus group interviews with 21 participants, we found that teachers recognized the identified profiles and that the results of the cluster-analysis matched teachers' self-chosen profiles in almost all cases. These results indicate that we can suitably characterize teachers based on their attitudes towards using new technology and stimulating higher-order thinking. Identification of these profiles may help us understand why certain groups of teachers may use new technology to stimulate students' higher-order thinking, while other teachers might not. This might provide starting points for tailored teacher professionalization for different groups of teachers.
Competing Interests: Competing interestsThe authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.
(© The Author(s) 2022.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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