- Title
- Assessing pre-service teachers' preparation for technology integration in teaching and learning in selected colleges of education in Ghana
- Creator
- Akaadom, Bernard Wiafe
- Subject
- Educational technology -- Ghana
- Subject
- Internet in higher education
- Subject
- Teaching -- Aids and devices
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Doctoral theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/29342
- Identifier
- vital:77948
- Description
- Most pre-service teachers fail to integrate technology into teaching and learning after graduating from college even though they take technology courses before the completion of their professional training. Thus, the aim of this study was to ascertain how pre-service teachers were prepared to incorporate technology into their teaching and learning by assessing their technology, pedagogy and content knowledge as well as their challenges in using technology for instruction in selected colleges of education in Ghana in the context of Mishra and Koehler (2006) TPACK framework. The study used the post-positivist paradigm and adopted the mixed method research approach using a concurrent triangulation design. The research sample of 417 respondents and four tutors as well as four student focus groups was drawn from eight colleges of education in Ghana. The study used semi-structured interview guides and a research questionnaire to collect data. The qualitative data collected were analyzed manually for content using thematic analysis once it had been coded. The quantitative data was coded and cleaned before being analyzed using SPSS version 19. In an attempt to confirm the trustworthiness and credibility of the study, the appropriateness of subjects was evaluated and measures such as member checking were engaged to make sure that the results of the study were trustworthy and could be established. Furthermore, the trustworthiness of the findings was also established by the use of two different methods for gathering data, namely; in-depth interviews augmented by questionnaires for collecting quantitative data. A significant finding of the study was that pre-service teachers‟ professional training was beset with many overawing challenges. These included the lack of technology tools and resources, lack of technology knowledge and skills to use technology for teaching purposes, inadequate time to learn and practice technology at college, and the absence of technicians to support and carry out maintenance of technology tools and equipment. It was also found that teacher educators failed to model technology for pre-service teachers. However, pre-service teachers endorsed good use of the internet for teaching and learning whiles rating their general use of computers and social media platforms as poor. There was the need for the college education curriculum and stakeholders such as the Ministry of Education, National Council for Tertiary Education, the Curriculum Research and Development Division of the Ghana Education Service to redevelop policy guidelines for the proper implementation of technology aspects of teacher training programmes in colleges to mitigate the challenges colleges face in technology training of pre-service teachers. It was recommended that technology courses should not be taught in isolation and a model was proposed to improve the effective implementation of the training programme of pre-service to help them integrate technology into instruction.
- Description
- Thesis (PhD) -- Faculty of Education, 2017
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (xxii, 395 leaves)
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Rights
- rights holder
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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