What Affects Vocational Teachers’ Acceptance and Use of ICT in Teaching? A Large-Scale Survey of Higher Vocational College Teachers in China
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Background and Hypothesized Model for Current Study
2.1. Instructional Behavior with ICT of Vocational Education Teacher
2.2. The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT)
2.3. Factors Influencing Teachers’ ICT Instructional Behavior Based on the UTAUT Model
2.3.1. Performance Expectancy
2.3.2. Effort Expectancy
2.3.3. External Conditions
2.3.4. Behavioral Intention to Use
2.4. Hypothesized Model for the Current Study
3. Method
3.1. Participants
3.2. Measurements
3.2.1. Predictive Variables
3.2.2. Outcome Variable
3.2.3. Control Variables
3.3. Data Analyses
4. Results
4.1. Descriptive Statistics
4.2. Results of the Mediating Model
5. Discussion
5.1. What Directly Affects Teachers’ ICT Teaching Behavior?
5.2. The Chained Mediating Effects of Teachers’ Intention to Use ICTs
6. Conclusions and Implications
6.1. Practical Implications
6.2. Limitation and Future Work
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Personal Variables | N | % | |
---|---|---|---|
Gender | Male | 2194 | 36.0% |
Female | 3893 | 64.0% | |
Age | 25 or below | 158 | 2.6% |
26–40 | 3241 | 53.2% | |
41–55 | 2297 | 37.7% | |
55 or high | 391 | 6.4% | |
Years of teaching experience | Less than 1 year | 367 | 6.0% |
1–3 | 691 | 11.4% | |
4–6 | 634 | 10.4% | |
7–18 | 2668 | 43.8% | |
19–30 | 1256 | 20.6% | |
31–40 | 471 | 7.7% | |
Years of working experience | 0 | 2663 | 43.7% |
Less than 1 year | 1551 | 25.5% | |
1–3 | 854 | 14.0% | |
4 or high | 1019 | 16.7% | |
Professional rank | No rank | 431 | 7.1% |
Primary | 963 | 15.8% | |
Secondary | 2790 | 45.8% | |
Senior | 1903 | 31.3% | |
Highest degree | Bachelor’s | 1479 | 24.3% |
Master’s | 3888 | 63.9% | |
Ph.D. | 241 | 4.0% | |
Others | 479 | 7.9% |
Cronbach’s Alpha Reliability Coefficients | CFI | TLI | RMSEA | Factor Loadings | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Perceived usefulness for learning | 0.974 | 0.934 | 0.916 | 0.142 | 0.822–0.896 |
Perceived usefulness for instruction | 0.946 | 0.943 | 0.905 | 0.188 | 0.785–0.891 |
Effort expectancy | 0.920 | 0.936 | 0.900 | 0.150 | 0.444–0.956 |
External conditions | 0.940 | 0.962 | 0.944 | 0.118 | 0.691–0.912 |
Teachers’ instructional behavior | 0.936 | 0.929 | 0.910 | 0.102 | 0.418–0.862 |
CR | AVE | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. Perceived usefulness for learning | 0.972 | 0.757 | |||||
2. Perceived usefulness for instruction | 0.944 | 0.739 | 0.630 *** | ||||
3. Effort expectancy | 0.914 | 0.582 | 0.298 *** | 0.388 *** | |||
4. External conditions | 0.940 | 0.664 | 0.481 *** | 0.559 *** | 0.372 *** | ||
5. Behavioral intention to use | - | - | 0.252 *** | 0.247 *** | 0.310 *** | 0.202 *** | |
6. Teachers’ instructional behavior | 0.936 | 0.537 | 0.536 *** | 0.500 *** | 0.406 *** | 0.417 *** | 0.296 *** |
Effect Size | p | Coverage | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Perceived usefulness for learning-> Teachers’ instructional behavior | Indirect effect (d*e) | 0.016 | <0.001 | 4.62% |
Direct effect | 0.330 | <0.001 | 95.38% | |
Total effect | 0.346 | 100% | ||
Perceived usefulness for instruction -> Teachers’ instructional behavior | Indirect effect (d*e) | 0.009 | <0.001 | 4.69% |
Direct effect | 0.183 | <0.001 | 95.31% | |
Total effect | 0.192 | 100% | ||
Effort expectancy -> Teachers’ instructional behavior | Indirect effect (d*e) | 0.023 | <0.001 | 18.40% |
Direct effect | 0.102 | <0.001 | 81.60% | |
Total effect | 0.125 | 100% | ||
External conditions -> Teachers’ instructional behavior | Indirect effect (d*e) | 0.003 | 0.144 | 2.97% |
Direct effect | 0.098 | <0.001 | 97.03% | |
Total effect | 0.101 | 100% |
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Yang, C.; Guo, R.; Cui, Y. What Affects Vocational Teachers’ Acceptance and Use of ICT in Teaching? A Large-Scale Survey of Higher Vocational College Teachers in China. Behav. Sci. 2023, 13, 77. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13010077
Yang C, Guo R, Cui Y. What Affects Vocational Teachers’ Acceptance and Use of ICT in Teaching? A Large-Scale Survey of Higher Vocational College Teachers in China. Behavioral Sciences. 2023; 13(1):77. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13010077
Chicago/Turabian StyleYang, Chengming, Rifa Guo, and Yiran Cui. 2023. "What Affects Vocational Teachers’ Acceptance and Use of ICT in Teaching? A Large-Scale Survey of Higher Vocational College Teachers in China" Behavioral Sciences 13, no. 1: 77. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13010077