Exploring preservice teachers’ digital skills, stress, and coping strategies during online lessons amid covid-19 pandemic in Ghana

Kwaah, Christopher Yaw; Adu‐Yeboah, Christine; Amuah, Ebo; Essilfie, Gabriel; Somuah, Beatrice Asante

doi:10.1080/2331186x.2022.2107292

Cited by 11 publications

(11 citation statements)

References 25 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…In addition to the psychological element, our participants shed light on educational technology awareness. Unquestionably, the epidemic has contributed in bringing teachers up-to-date on ICT usage (Kwaah et al, 2022;Pozo et al, 2021). To date, the usage of ICT in the classroom has been reinforced through the learning processes of educators around the globe (Buabeng-Andoh, 2012).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

English Teacher Identity Crisis after Fruitless Virtual Teaching Practices During Covid-19 Outbreak in Underprivileged Institution

Kadek¹,

Dewi²

2022

Mimb. Ilmu

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Education institutions are under proliferating challenges to deliver successful virtual learning in an increasingly digitized and globalized environment and especially during Covid-19 outbreak. This even become harder in academically challenging circumstance. This might put their identity as a teacher in hard situation. The aim of this research is to analyses English teacher attitudes and perception after having unsuccessful teaching practices from professional identity lens. An interpretative phenomenological analysis by utilizing dialogic interview will be employed to 4 higher education English teacher in underprivileged and newly established university to capture the intended data. After that, the data regarding teacher identity will be displayed and extensively analysed to unfold some individual phenomenon while implementing virtual classroom to teach English. This study found that our participants have evidently grown professionally during the Covid-19 epidemic time frame. Several teachers have developed some strategies to actually engage students in the virtual classroom and gained more awareness of technological issues in learning. In fact, this experience was viewed as enhancing their teacher identity. This study is expected to offer a glimpse of teacher individual situation and some insight on the effort in maintaining personal teachers’ identity during virtual learning process.

show abstract

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

English Teacher Identity Crisis after Fruitless Virtual Teaching Practices During Covid-19 Outbreak in Underprivileged Institution

Kadek¹,

Dewi²

2022

Mimb. Ilmu

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Some studies have examined pre-service teachers' ICT competencies. For example, Kwaah et al (2022) investigated the relationship between the digital proficiency of prospective educators and their stress levels. The study revealed a correlation between lower digital proficiency among prospective teachers and heightened levels of stress experienced during the period of online teaching and learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

Section: / 10mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, when the studies above are analyzed, it is clear that no previous empirical study in Russia or other countries investigated pre-service teachers' ICT competency beliefs. In addition, the existing studies in the literature have examined pre-service teachers' digital competencies (Cebi & Reisoglu, 2020;Tomczyk et Contemporary Educational Technology, 2024 Contemporary Educational Technology, 16(2), ep500 3 / 10 al., 2023), digital skills (Kwaah et al, 2022;Urakova et a., 2023), and the 21 st century skills as digital skills (Karakoyun & Lindberg, 2020). Because of this reason, there is a gap in examining pre-service teachers' ICT competency beliefs.…”

Section: / 10mentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring pre-service teachers’ ICT competence beliefs

Sergeeva,

Zheltukhina,

Sizova

et al. 2024

CONT ED TECHNOLOGY

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

It is essential for pre-service teachers to hold positive beliefs about information and communication technology (ICT) and possess digital skills to integrate digital technology successfully into the teaching and learning environments. Although numerous studies have examined teachers’ attitudes toward ICT, little research has examined teachers’ ICT competency beliefs. This research aimed to explore pre-service teachers’ ICT competence beliefs.<b> </b>We used an instrument developed by previous researchers for data collection. The results showed that the pre-service teachers had good ICT competence beliefs. A few gender differences were found between participants’ mean scores on six dimensions of the data collection instrument. No gender differences were found for many items. It was found that there were no significant differences in the years of study of participants across five different grade levels. However, the lowest mean scores were found in analyzing and reflecting, problem-solving, and information and data literacy. Conversely, the highest mean scores were detected in communication and collaboration, digital content creation, and safety and security. Based on these findings, recommendations have been made for practice and future research.

show abstract

“…This negative response increases when employees are forced to work from home (Becker et al , 2022). This was typically experienced in Ghana amidst the Covid-19 pandemic where a lot of employees were forced to work from home to avoid the spread of the virus (Kwaah et al , 2022). Cyberloafing is the use of the organisation’s internet connection and work devices, or other resources inappropriately and for personal benefits during working hours (Lim & Chen, 2012).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The consequence of cyberslacking calls for continuous research in examining the factors that occasion these behaviours among employees (Askew, 2012; Askew et al , 2014). Furthermore, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been the need to switch from the conservative work life where employees are expected to be in the office to a more virtual one with the use of computer-based technology in communicating (Kwaah et al , 2022). Several studies have examined cyberloafing within the office setting (Lim, 2002; Blanchard & Henle, 2008; Moody & Siponen, 2013).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Telecommuting and cyberloafing in the Ghanaian context. The role of employees emotional exhaustion

Amponsah‐Tawiah

Mensah

Baafi

2023

OMJ

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Purpose This study aims to examine the relationship between telecommuting and cyberloafing among Ghanaian workers. In addition, the study investigated the moderating role of emotional exhaustion on telecommuting and cyberloafing. Design/methodology/approach The study collected quantitative data from 945 employees in banks, telecommunication and insurance sectors of the Ghanaian economy. Data was entered using SPSS v.23 and analysed with Process Macro v3.5. Findings The results indicate that there is a significant positive relationship between telecommuting and cyberloafing. It also found out that emotional exhaustion has a significant negative relationship with cyberloafing. Furthermore, emotional exhaustion moderated the relationship between telecommuting and cyberloafing. Organisations are not necessarily required to be in a particular location to achieve their goals. Through practices such as telecommuting, organisations are able to unleash the creative and innovative abilities of employees and also improve their psychological well-being for greater gains. Practical implications The practice of telecommuting psychologically empowers the individual giving some decision-making latitudes to one and making one responsible and accountable for their actions and inactions. Also, individuals who are giving the chance to telecommute will only engage in cyberloafing behaviours when they are emotionally exhausted. Thus, it is important to create conditions that establishes equilibrium and creates harmony between the individual and the work, hence eliminating any feeling of emotional exhaustion and reaping the full benefits of telecommuting. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first to examine the role of emotional exhaustion in the relationship between telecommuting workers and their engagement in cyberloafing.

show abstract

Exploring preservice teachers’ digital skills, stress, and coping strategies during online lessons amid covid-19 pandemic in Ghana

Cited by 11 publications

References 25 publications

English Teacher Identity Crisis after Fruitless Virtual Teaching Practices During Covid-19 Outbreak in Underprivileged Institution

English Teacher Identity Crisis after Fruitless Virtual Teaching Practices During Covid-19 Outbreak in Underprivileged Institution

Exploring pre-service teachers’ ICT competence beliefs

Telecommuting and cyberloafing in the Ghanaian context. The role of employees emotional exhaustion

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About