Natural Sciences Teachers’ Beliefs as Barriers for Integrating ICTs in a Technology-rich Context

Juggernath, Avashkumar; Govender, Nadaraj

doi:10.1080/18117295.2020.1736854

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“…Therefore, teachers need to be engaged in twenty-first-century skills such as creative and critical thinking, collaboration and ICT. ICT skill mastery is important for the teachers to carry out online teaching (Juggernath and Govender, 2020). In order to improve their problem-solving skill, teachers need to work in different scenarios (Kale and Akcaoglu, 2020).…”

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Coping with the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on primary education: teachers' struggle (case study in the Province of Yogyakarta, Indonesia)

Munastiwi

Murfi

Sumarni

et al. 2022

IJEM

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PurposeThe research aimed to explore the issues in the implementation of online education practice in elementary school, to study teachers' coping strategy to the online education issues and to evaluate teachers' problem-solving skill in online learning practice during the Covid-19 pandemic.Design/methodology/approachAn exploratory research focused on identifying the obstacles in teaching practice faced by elementary school teachers as well as their coping strategy with eight convenience sampled schools.FindingsOnline education practice faced unpreparedness and competency issues. Unpreparedness was found in terms of social, technical and cultural factors, while competency issue was related to online education competency and digital competency. Teachers’ struggle to cope with the issue in online education practice was focused on the performing conventional education in the online manner, suggesting teachers' lack of competency in encouraging learning success. Teachers neglected the development of students' readiness and competencies to engage in online learning. Moreover, teachers’ struggle had the least impact on the development of their online teaching competency and digital competency that are required for carrying out online teaching. In general, teachers' problem-solving skill was below the expected level. These findings suggested that improvement of teachers' competencies is important in order to cope with the issues such as in online education practice during Covid-19 pandemic and to face future challenges in education.Originality/valueThis study evaluated the gap between actual action and expected action of elementary school teachers in coping with the issues regarding online education practice.

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Coping with the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on primary education: teachers' struggle (case study in the Province of Yogyakarta, Indonesia)

Munastiwi

Murfi

Sumarni

et al. 2022

IJEM

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“…3,4 Learning innovation that adapts to the latest technology is a good strategy in improving critical thinking skills, because it can facilitate students to learn actively and optimally in achieving the targets competency stated in the curriculum. 5,6 The implementation of competence curriculum has brought a change in the target competence for the subject learned at university level, including pharmacy and chemistry. 7 With this curriculum, learning must be equalized and juxtaposed with the need for skills needed to work in relevant fields.…”

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Implementation of Project-based Learning Innovation to Develop Students’ Critical Thinking Skills as a Strategy to Achieve Analytical Chemistry Competencies

Situmorang¹,

Sinaga²,

Sitorus³

et al. 2022

IJPER

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Background:The ability to think critically is one of the life skill targets that pharmacists and scientists want to achieve in learning, therefore it is necessary to do project-based learning innovations to guide students to learn actively and independently in developing critical thinking skills. Objectives: This study aims to implement project-based learning to facilitate active and independent learning through project implementation to build students' critical thinking skills and at the same time to facilitate students to achieve competencies in the analytical chemistry required by pharmaceutical and chemical scientists. Materials and Methods: Research includes the development of project packages and the integration of information technology on the topic of Distillation, standardization of learning resources, and implementation of Analytical Chemistry teaching. Results: An innovative project-based learning resource package was successfully developed for the Distillation topic. Implementation of learning resource packages effectively guides students to carry out their own projects in separating target compound contextually through distillation method. The learning facilities available in the learning package have proven to be able in guiding students to design project assignments suit to target analyte. The learning potential of students has been optimized. Students' knowledge and skills in separating target analytes by distillation have been fully mastered as desired in the competency-based curriculum. The results of the assessment showed that the students' critical thinking skills were very good (M = 84.51±7.41). Student learning outcomes based on the portfolio value of the project proposal (M = 88.46±6.74) and project reports (M = 92.85±1.98), and from the objective score of the formative exam (M = 85.59±3.09) are all classified very good, namely the competence in the analytical field is achieved. Conclusion: Project-based learning innovations are very effective in improving critical thinking skills as well as increasing student competence in the field of analytical chemistry. Recommendation: Project-based learning is suitable for implementation in teaching other subjects to achieve the competencies required by scientists. This learning model is effective in building student competence in a normal learning atmosphere, or when social restrictions are imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…One of which is the advancement of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) which has a significant influence on the paradigm shift of learning in schools. In addition, the use of ICT also has a positive influence on scientific understanding (Li et al, 2020); Juggernath & Govender, 2020) and changes in overall attitude dimensions (Kursch, 2021). The role of the teacher in the era of ICT advancement is not easy because the teacher remains the main element in the entire learning process (Montenegro & Fernández, 2019).…”

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The effect of ICT literacy on the pedagogical competence of physics teachers'

Masrifah

Handayani

Nurjannah

et al. 2022

Momentum: Physics Education Journal

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This study aims to determine the effect of ICT literacy on the pedagogic competence of high school physics teachers in North Maluku. This research is correlational quantitative research. The subjects in this study were 80 high school physics teachers with details of 60 female teachers and 20 male teachers. Data collection on ICT literacy and pedagogic competence of Physics teachers was carried out through tests using ICT literacy questions and pedagogical competencies of knowledge aspects. Furthermore, the re-search data were analyzed using a linear regression test with IBM SPSS 20 software. Based on the results of the study, it is known that the understanding of ICT literacy has a positive effect on the pedagogic competence of physics teachers in the aspect of knowledge. This can be seen from the coefficient value of the variable X of 0.614, which means the magnitude of the influence of X on Y is in a strong category because it has a percentage of 61.4%. The implication of the results of this study is one of the efforts to improve the pedagogic competence of teachers, namely by strengthening their ICT literacy, because the higher the ICT literacy of teachers, the higher their pedagogical competence.

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Natural Sciences Teachers’ Beliefs as Barriers for Integrating ICTs in a Technology-rich Context

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

Coping with the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on primary education: teachers' struggle (case study in the Province of Yogyakarta, Indonesia)

Coping with the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on primary education: teachers' struggle (case study in the Province of Yogyakarta, Indonesia)

Implementation of Project-based Learning Innovation to Develop Students’ Critical Thinking Skills as a Strategy to Achieve Analytical Chemistry Competencies

The effect of ICT literacy on the pedagogical competence of physics teachers'

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