Mathematics teacher's attitudes towards computer use in the classroom
Abstract
Technological development has led to a significant change in education and demands new skills, attitudes and knowledge from the teachers. The mathematics teacher's attitude toward computer use in the classroom is a factor that can positively or negatively impact student learning. That is why the present study aims to know the attitude that teachers of the Mathematics department of the Instituto Tecnologico de Sonora have towards the use of the computer for academic purposes. Sixty-seven teachers participated in the survey, which included 16 items with five response options. The study design contemplates a quantitative approach and the type of research is non-experimental, transactional and correlational, using hypothesis and correlation tests. The results show that the teachers have a very favorable level of attitude; 85.2% of the teachers answered the option of agreeing and totally agreeing. It was found that as the teachers grow older, they feel more confident with the use of the computer and the more they think that students are distracted by its use in the classroom and that the use of the computer encourages laziness in the student. Similar results have been found in other research regarding the favorable attitude that mathematics teachers have towards the use of technology in the classroom; as well as the distrust they have towards the use of technology as age increases.
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