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Understanding Web-Based Professional Development in Education: The Role of Attitudes and Self-Efficacy in Predicting Teachers' Technology-Teaching Integration
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Kao, Chia-Pin; Wu, Ying-Tien; Chang, Yu-Yu; Chien, Hui-Min; Mou, Tsai-Yun – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2020
There is a large body of study concerning primary school teachers' technology integration, and their web-based professional development self-efficacy and attitudes. However, little research has been particularly conducted to investigate the effects of self-efficacy and attitudes toward professional development on teachers' intention to integrate…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Web Based Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy
Web-Searching to Learn: The Role of Internet Self-Efficacy in Pre-School Educators' Conceptions and Approaches
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Kao, Chia-Pin; Chien, Hui-Min – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
This study was conducted to explore the relationships between pre-school educators' conceptions of and approaches to learning by web-searching through Internet Self-efficacy. Based on data from 242 pre-school educators who had prior experience of participating in web-searching in Taiwan for path analyses, it was found in this study that…
Descriptors: Internet, Online Searching, Self Efficacy, Preschool Teachers
Development of a Survey to Measure Self-Efficacy and Attitudes toward Web-Based Professional Development among Elementary School Teachers
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Kao, Chia-Pin; Tsai, Chin-Chung; Shih, Meilun – Educational Technology & Society, 2014
The major purpose of this study was to develop a survey to measure elementary school teachers' self-efficacy for web-based professional development. Based on interviews with eight elementary school teachers, three scales of web-based professional development self-efficacy (WPDSE) were formed, namely, general self-efficacy (measuring teachers'…
Descriptors: Surveys, Test Construction, Self Efficacy, Teacher Attitudes
Elementary School Teachers' Motivation toward Web-Based Professional Development, and the Relationship with Internet Self-Efficacy and Belief about Web-Based Learning
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Kao, Chia-Pin; Wu, Ying-Tien; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
This study was conducted to explore the relationships between teachers' motivation toward web-based professional development, Internet self-efficacy, and beliefs about web-based learning. By gathering questionnaire data from 484 elementary school teachers, this study indicated that the teachers' Internet self-efficacy and behavioral beliefs about…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Web Based Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Internet
Teachers' Attitudes toward Web-Based Professional Development, with Relation to Internet Self-Efficacy and Beliefs about Web-Based Learning
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Kao, Chia-Pin; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Computers & Education, 2009
This study was conducted to explore the relationships between teachers' Internet self-efficacy, beliefs about web-based learning and attitudes toward web-based professional development. The sample of this study included 421 teachers, coming from 20 elementary schools in Taiwan. The three instruments used to assess teachers' Internet self-efficacy…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Web Based Instruction, Foreign Countries, Internet