Analyzing Teachers' Attitude towards Integrating Technology in Teaching and Learning

Abstract

An attempt has been made to investigate the technology acceptance in teaching in relation to attitude of school teachers'. The focus of the research is to-evaluate the school teachers' attitude towards technology acceptance in teaching; find the difference in female and male school teachers' attitude towards technology acceptance in teaching. Method used for data collection was descriptive survey. A sample of three hundred and four school teachers (comprising of 151 female and 153 male school teachers) was drawn from eighteen government school (six districts namely Samdrup Jongkhar, Pema Gatshel, Tashi Gang, Tashi Yangtse, Mongar and Lhuntse of Bhutan) of Eastern Bhutan through convenience sampling. The objective and hypotheses of the study have been tested by using mean, standard deviation, frequencies, percentages and z'-test. Results revealed that 1) majority of school teachers have positive (highly favorable and favorable) attitude towards the technology acceptance in teaching; and 2) Attitude of female and male school teachers towards technology acceptance in teaching do not differ significantly from each other. Female and male school teachers have favorable attitude, to equal extent or degree, towards the technology acceptance in teaching.