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EDUCATORS' INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, AND USE:THEIR EFFECT ON SCHOOL PERFORMANCE

Volume: 105  ,  Issue: 1 , July    Published Date: 18 July 2022
Publisher Name: IJRP
Views: 353  ,  Download: 300 , Pages: 67 - 90    
DOI: 10.47119/IJRP1001051720223632

Authors

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1 MARY GRACE V. LIM

Abstract

The study aimed to determine the level of Department of Education, Division of Laguna secondary school educators? information and communication technology (ICT) knowledge, attitudes, and use and its effects on schools? performance. The respondents were the sixteen schools and 32 teachers from Laguna SBM Level III public secondary schools. The researcher used the descriptive research design to gather the necessary data and information about the relationship between the independent variable, i.e., teachers? ICT knowledge, attitude, and use, and the dependent variable, i.e., the schools? performance and SBM assessment. The primary data gathering instrument was the survey questionnaire which the ICT coordinators in the Division of Laguna validated. Statistical data treatments of the descriptive part were frequency count, mean, and standard deviation, whereas, for the inferential part, the Pearson product-moment of correlation was used. The study revealed that the teachers? ICT knowledge was high based on the five sub-variables - cultural, cognitive, constructive, communication, and creative. Their ICT attitudes based on three aspects - emotional effect, personal interest, and subjective satisfaction, as well as their ICT utilization based on four aspects - personal development, professional development, other educational stakeholders? aspect, and the aspect of advocacy, were also high, which conveyed positive. The schools? performance based on performance improvement consisting of enrolment increase rate, promotion rate, and high achievement rate was high. All the No significant relationship was found between the teachers? ICT knowledge, attitude, and use and school performance improvement; therefore, the hypothesis was accepted. Relatively, no significant relationship between the teachers? ICT knowledge, attitude, and use and the school performance based on the SBM assessment was recorded except for the cognitive aspect in ICT knowledge which the hypothesis was partially accepted.

Keywords

  • ICT
  • school performance