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Williams, P. John; Gu, Jianjun – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2022
In light of the fact that technology teachers' understandings of the nature of technology (NoT) determine students' perceptions of NoT, this study turned attention to technology teachers, and developed a comprehensive theoretical instrument for assessing their understandings of NoT. The theoretical framework of NoT was proposed using a…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Technology Education, Technology, Influence of Technology
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Gu, Jianjun; Xu, Meidan; Hong, Jonchao – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2019
Technological literacy (TL) as the goal of technology education guides the construction of the technology education curriculum in China. Previous studies investigating technological literacy were limited to K-12 students and had some ambiguities in the definition of technology, theoretical framework, and assessed criterion, and a measurement…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Construction, Construct Validity, Surveys
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Xu, Meidan; Williams, John P.; Gu, Jianjun – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2020
Pupils' attitudes towards technology have been widely discussed for over three decades, but the equally important topic of teachers' attitudes towards technology has not gained similar attention. To address this gap, the technology teachers' attitude towards technology (TTATT) scale was developed and validated by pilot testing with 140 Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Education, Teacher Attitudes, High School Teachers