A Four Year Study of Teachers' Attitudes Towards Integration in Schools

Yuilang Liu--Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville

100% of American Schools have Internet Access
Teachers compared to other professionals were less likely to use computers.
Current pressure at various levels to reform K-12 education with tech integration

Teacher's attitude is one of the major human factors that has a significant impact on computer adoption or implementation of technology in the classroom.

In the mid 1980s and early 1990s there was a national technology integration project entitled "Apple Classroom of Tomorrow"

Sandholts, Ringstaff, and Dwyer (1997) ACOT studies investigate teachers' instructional evolution described by five stages of concern present when high levels of technology implementation are experienced across the curriculum

Entry
Adoption
Adaption
Appropriation
Invention

Hall, George, and Rutherford (1977) Teachers' Stages of Concern

0 Awareness
1 Informational
2 Personal
3 Management
4 Consequence
5 Collaboration
6 Refocusing

Continuum of Concerns of Tech Integration (lower to higher levels and from internal to external)

Studies report that K-12 teachers exhibeted a higher intensity of concern in stages 0-2 and a lower intensity concern in stages 4-6.

Research Questions:

What pattern and trend of concern over a four-year period was revealed in teachers' responses to the Stages of Concerns (S0C)
(Missing two research questions)

SoC questionnaire (Hall et al 1977)


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