NDLI: Profiling the attitudes of Greek kindergarten teachers towards computers

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Zaranis, Nicholas Oikomidis, Vassilios
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to examine kindergarten teachers’ attitudes towards computers in the classroom. The sample consisted of two groups allocated in two different researches. The first group had 383 participants from the first research (spring 2007) and the second 295 participants from the second research (fall 2012). The participants in both groups were drawn from kindergarten teachers of public kindergartens in the area of Athens and Crete (Greece). In the first research, a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire with 49 questions was designed to assess the attitudes of kindergarten teachers towards computers. Due to factor analysis on the sample of the first research, the questionnaire items reduced to 30. Then, cluster analysis was applied to obtain three distinct clusters of the kindergarten teachers’ profiles: the neutral, the sceptic and the optimistic kindergarten teachers. Finally, a comparison among the characteristics of the first research of kindergarten teachers (383) and the second research (295) was done. The three profiles of kindergarten teachers were summarized and the changes of recent years were discussed in hope that they may provide useful information on the education challenges of the kindergarten curriculum.
Starting Page	201
Ending Page	215
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13602357
Journal	Education and Information Technologies
Volume Number	20
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15737608
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2013-12-01
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Profile Attitudes Kindergarten teachers Computers Computers and Education Educational Technology User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction Education (general) Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet) Computer Application in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Library and Information Sciences E-learning

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