Exploring the Potential of the Will, Skill, Tool Model in Predicting Pre-Service Teachers and Tutors of Colleges of Education Stage of Adoption of Technology Integration into Teaching and Learning

Abstract

Studies have demonstrated that will (positive attitudes), skill (technology competency), and tool (access to technology tools) are all needed components for an educator to successively integrate technology into teaching and learning. This research work centered on the will, skill and tool as important procedures for the predictability of technology integration into teaching and learning, announced by the study respondents and calculated by stages of adoption of pre-service teachers and tutors of Colleges of Education in Ashanti Region, Ghana. Quantitative research design which involves survey was used to answer the research question; “How would will, skill and technology tools predict pre-service teachers and tutors stage of adoption of technology integration into teaching and learning at the Colleges of Education in Ashanti Region?” Three hundred and thirty-eight (338) pre-service teachers of College of Education who were in level 200 of the 2019/2020 academic year, offering either Mathematics or Science or Visual art were selected through purposive sampling technique and thirteen (13) tutors were sampled using convenience sampling technique for the study. The participants answered a well validated instruments spread over from the areas of attitudes (will), competencies (skill), access (tool) and technology integration into teaching and learning. The data was analysed using regression analysis. The results revealed that access to technology tools appeared to be stronger predictor of classroom integration of technology into teaching and learning by pre-service teachers and tutors of Colleges of Education in Ashanti Region. That is, predictability of stages of adoption from 0.37 to 0.41(0.37+0.94/2) was realised. Keywords: Exploring, predicting, stages of adoption integrating technology, teaching and learning, pre-service teachers, tutors.