Linking task-technology fit, innovativeness, and teacher readiness using structural equation modelling

IF 4.8 2区 教育学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Education and Information Technologies Pub Date : 2024-01-15 DOI:10.1007/s10639-023-12440-x
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Digital technologies promote active, interactive, collaborative, and immersive learning but the challenge of how to prepare teachers effectively for digital technology utilisation in the instructional process remains a pertinent problem for education institutions. Guided by task-technology fit theory, this research delves into technology use by teachers and argues that efficacy of utilisation is contingent on technology compatibility with teachers’ tasks. Using the context of wearable technology, this research examines the links between task-technology fit, teaching innovativeness, and teacher readiness to use wearables in teaching. 346 survey responses from physical education teachers in Kuwait were analysed using partial least squares structural equation modelling. The analysis evaluates hypothesised relationships and considers the roles of task and technology characteristics, information and communication technology proficiency, and attitudes towards co-creation. The survey results suggest that there is a strong correlation between task-technology fit, teaching innovativeness, and teacher readiness. Furthermore, the results provide empirical evidence that task and technology characteristics positively relate to task-technology fit, while technology proficiency and attitudes towards co-creation positively relate to teaching innovativeness. The findings carry theoretical implications related to factors influencing task-technology fit and its relationship with teaching innovativeness. In practical terms, the findings advise supporting teachers’ digital skills and integrating fit considerations into education technology selection. Overall, this study provides added value to theory by positing that teacher readiness can be explained by both task-technology fit and teacher innovativeness. This readiness context changes the dynamics of constructs within task-technology fit theory – creating a stronger relationship between technology characteristics and task-technology fit.

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利用结构方程模型将任务-技术契合度、创新性和教师准备度联系起来
摘要 数字技术促进了主动、互动、协作和沉浸式学习,但如何让教师做好准备,在教学过程中有效利用数字技术,仍然是教育机构面临的一个相关问题。在任务-技术契合理论的指导下,本研究深入探讨了教师对技术的使用,并认为技术的使用效率取决于技术与教师任务的兼容性。本研究以可穿戴技术为背景,探讨了任务-技术契合度、教学创新性和教师在教学中使用可穿戴设备的准备程度之间的联系。研究使用偏最小二乘法结构方程模型分析了来自科威特体育教师的 346 份调查反馈。分析评估了假设的关系,并考虑了任务和技术特征、信息和通信技术熟练程度以及对共同创造的态度的作用。调查结果表明,任务与技术的契合度、教学创新性和教师准备度之间存在很强的相关性。此外,调查结果还提供了实证证据,证明任务和技术特征与任务-技术契合度呈正相关,而技术熟练程度和对共同创造的态度与教学创新性呈正相关。研究结果对任务与技术契合度的影响因素及其与教学创新性的关系具有理论意义。在实践中,研究结果建议支持教师的数字技能,并在教育技术选择中纳入适合性考虑因素。总之,本研究通过假设教师准备度可以通过任务-技术契合度和教师创新性来解释,为理论提供了附加值。这种准备度背景改变了任务-技术契合理论中的建构动态--在技术特征和任务-技术契合之间建立了更强的关系。
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Education and Information Technologies
Education and Information Technologies EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Education and Information Technologies (EAIT) is a platform for the range of debates and issues in the field of Computing Education as well as the many uses of information and communication technology (ICT) across many educational subjects and sectors. It probes the use of computing to improve education and learning in a variety of settings, platforms and environments. The journal aims to provide perspectives at all levels, from the micro level of specific pedagogical approaches in Computing Education and applications or instances of use in classrooms, to macro concerns of national policies and major projects; from pre-school classes to adults in tertiary institutions; from teachers and administrators to researchers and designers; from institutions to online and lifelong learning. The journal is embedded in the research and practice of professionals within the contemporary global context and its breadth and scope encourage debate on fundamental issues at all levels and from different research paradigms and learning theories. The journal does not proselytize on behalf of the technologies (whether they be mobile, desktop, interactive, virtual, games-based or learning management systems) but rather provokes debate on all the complex relationships within and between computing and education, whether they are in informal or formal settings. It probes state of the art technologies in Computing Education and it also considers the design and evaluation of digital educational artefacts.  The journal aims to maintain and expand its international standing by careful selection on merit of the papers submitted, thus providing a credible ongoing forum for debate and scholarly discourse. Special Issues are occasionally published to cover particular issues in depth. EAIT invites readers to submit papers that draw inferences, probe theory and create new knowledge that informs practice, policy and scholarship. Readers are also invited to comment and reflect upon the argument and opinions published. EAIT is the official journal of the Technical Committee on Education of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) in partnership with UNESCO.
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