Survey of Belief and Attitude on Pre-Service Science Teachers’ Behavioural Intention Towards Information Technology Use for Teaching in a Nigerian University.

Abstract

This study investigated the influence of pre-service teachers’ beliefs and attitudes on behavioural intention towards information technology (IT) use for teaching. The study used a descriptive survey method and a questionnaire to gather the data of the study. The sample of the study comprises of pre-service science teachers’ at various levels of study. One hundred and ninety-two students were purposively used as respondents. The instrument used for the study was an adapted one but subjected to reliability check. A cronbach alpha computed to ascertain the internal consistent of the instrument yielded .76, .82 and .80 on the three variables (belief, attitude and behavioural intention) of the study. Based on the theoretical framework of the study, three alternate hypotheses was generated and tested. Regression and Analysis of Variance were used to analyse the data. The findings of the study showed that preservice teachers’ behavioural intention toward information technology use can be explain by their belief and attitude. Though, pre-service teachers’ belief stood to be the strongest determinant. Based on this findings the study suggest among others the deployment of IT tool for teaching pre-service teacher so as to sustain their belief about ease of use and usefulness of IT tool for teaching when they get to the field of practice.