Andrea K

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Andrea Kárpáti, Anna Linda SzirmaiEötvös Loránd
University (ELTE)Centre for Multimedia in
Education Balázs Török, Institute for Higher
Education Research, Budapest
The Effects of Personality Traits and ICT Skills
on Teaching Style of Experienced Educators
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EPICT collaborative e-learning course for
teachers on ICT
www.epict.org

• Learn about the role of ICT and new educational
  paradigms in groups
• Develop ICT competencies / collaboration skills /
  pedagogical strategies through using digital
  tools, teaching aids and resources
• Assessment based on the documentation of
  learning scenarios developed by the group
• Facilitators challenge the team to go further
  than they could do on their own

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Learning groups school or discipline
based Course modul evaluation based on group
assignments no individual grading
No fixed level of competence
All teachers raise their competences
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Contents

• Optional modules (select 4)
• Digital images
• Numbers and spreadsheets
• The genre of presentations
• Producing and using educational websites
• A head start with databases
• Models and simulations
• Using the media Layout and DTP
• Educational software
• ICT, learning styles and classroom management
• ICT as a compensatory tool
• Games and learning
• Reading and ICT

• Compulsory modules
• The Internet
• Texts and writing processes
• Communication and collaboration
• Compulsory
• School development and innovation

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Pilot evaluation in Hungary

• Sample 151 secondary school teachers
• Background variables age, discipline,
  professional rank, personality traits
• Evaluation tools
• ICT Competence Survey (ICS, attitudes / use /
  skills)
• California Personality Inventory (CPI)
• Educational Strategies Test (EST)
• Discourse analysis in the VLE
• Digital Portfolio for Groups

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Facilitators forum issues on training the
trainers discussed
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E-mail by group leader accompanyingmodule task
submission
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VLE for EPICT
Online questionnaires
Modules
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Pedagogical Strategies Questionnaire
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Frequency of use documented in the Moodle DLE
Statistics per module for facilitator / group
/student
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Log file analysis,all participants
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ICT Competency Survey (ICS) an index based
measuring tool

• Self report questionnaire piloted in a project
  measuring ICT readiness in 170 schools of a
  disctrict in Budapest.
• Index (1) School access to ICT
• Index (2) Home access to ICT
• Index (3) ICT related attitudes
• Index (4) ICT related competencies
• Index (5) Educational use of ICT

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Four domains for every index

• low (value range 0,011),
• medium (value range 1,012)
• high (value range 2,013)
• 0 value, indicating the non-existence of any
  interpretable data for the index. (low level ICT
  access means sporadic, rare access while 0 level
  indicates no access to a PC).

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Training to use ICT in education through
personality development

• ICS indices were correlated with the presence /
  absence of certain personality traits measured by
  CPI to identify personality characteristics that
  tend to predict succeed or fail with ICT use in
  education.
• Some traits can be enhanced through personality
  development training.

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Correlations between personality traits and ICT
skills, attitudes and competence
CPI ICS 1. School access 2. Home access 3. ICT attitudes 4. ICT competence 5. Educa tional use
Sociability 0,154 -0,104 0,153 0,222 0,123
Social skills 0,120 0,090 0,139 0,275 0,015
Self respect 0,059 0,039 0,055 0,094 0,034
Gen. wellbeing (Wb) 0,219 -0,057 0,218 0,256 -0,074
Self control 0,133 -0,031 0,222 0,120 -0,064
Tolerance 0,178 0,000 0,354 0,351 0,007
Establ. good relationships 0,179 -0,030 0,233 0,262 -0,149
Building a community -0,093 0,200 -0,118 -0,139 0,230







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CPI ICS 1. School access 2. Home access 3. ICT attitudes 4. ICT competence
5. Educa- tional use
Intellectual efficiency (Ie) 0,183 0,016 0,238 0,332 0,002
Flexibility (Fl) 0,163 0,014 0,162 0,306 0,126
Feminine qualities (Fm -0,067 0,076 -0,020 -0,103 0,114
Extraversion (Ex) 0,151 -0,033 0,162 0,271 0,052
Reliability (Re) 0,147 0,053 0,134 0,228 0,055
Emotional stability (Es) 0,114 -0,030 0,115 0,226 0,046
Intellect (In) 0,150 -0,016 0,142 0,208 0,029
Pearson two-tailed correlation, significance
levels 0.05, 0,01
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Training to use ICT in education through
personality development

• To suit not only ICT skills level but also
  mindset and personality through
• specially targeted mentoring methods,
• responsive teaching environment
• course content (best practice examples)
• custom-tailored pedagogical competence
  development through individual tasks and group
  games

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New content in EPICT F2F starting days

• Personality development training
• Develop positive self concept
• Realise motives and urges
• Be more open to working in team
• Training in collaboration
• Group building / management skills
• Workflow management techniques