Læreres mestringsforventninger til å undervise i teknologirike læringsomgivelser og deres opplevde utfordringer
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https://doi.org/10.5617/adno.3042Keywords:
læreres arbeid, det teknologitette klasserom, mestringsforventninger, klasseledelse, undervisningAbstract
Elever i norske videregående skoler har vanligvis tilgang til datamaskiner med internett-tilgang mens undervisningen pågår. Teknologitilgjengeligheten kan ha betydning for læreres mestringsforventninger til faglig undervisning. Det er gunstig at lærere opplever mestring i jobben ettersom mestringsforventninger anses som viktige for profesjonell vekst. Problemstillingen i denne studien er å utforske hvilke belastende faktorer som er relatert til læreres mestringsforventninger til faglig undervisning. I denne studien forenes to teoretiske linser: teori om læreres mestringsforventninger i faglig undervisning, samt teori om læreres orientering til profesjonell læring. Vår teori er at faktorer som læreres persepsjon av tilkortkommenhet, deres orientering til læring, samt opplevd stress og konflikt i forbindelse med høy teknologitilgjengelighet i klasserommet kan forklare deres mestringsforventninger til faglig undervisning i teknologirike læringsomgivelser. Datagrunnlaget er en spørreskjemaundersøkelse blant 156 lærere ved 3 videregående skoler i Norge. Analysen viser at opplevd stress er sterkt negativt relatert til mestringsforventning til undervisning. Persepsjon av tilkortkommenhet er i moderat grad relatert til forventning til undervisningsmestring i teknologirike klasserom. Det er en meget sterk og positiv sammenheng mellom opplevd stress og konflikt. Det er nokså svake sammenhenger mellom opplevelse av tilkortkommenhet og opplevd stress. Disse empiriske sammenhengene viser utfordringer som hittil har vært lite påaktet i forskning om lærere i videregående skole og deres arbeid i teknologirike klasserom. Samtidig viser analysen at læreres vektlegging av kunnskap som de har tilegnet seg gjennom konkrete erfaringer i praksisfeltet, er positivt relatert til opplevd stress og svakt positivt relatert til tilkortkommenhet. I sum viser disse empiriske resultatene at vi trenger mer forskning om belastende faktorer og læreres mestringsforventninger i teknologirike læringsomgivelser.
Nøkkelord: lærere, teknologirike klasserom, mestringsforventninger, undervisning, stress, konflikt, tilkortkommenhet
Teachers’ instructional self-efficacy in technology-rich learning environments
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Students in Norwegian upper secondary school usually have access to computers with internet in the classroom. This access to technology might influence how teachers perceive their instructional self-efficacy. Professional growth is conditioned by teachers’ experience of mastery in their work. The issue in this study is to explore factors that are related to teachers’ instructional self-efficacy. This study combines two theoretical lenses: theory on teachers’ self-efficacy and theory of teachers’ orientation to professional learning. Our theory is that factors such as teachers’ perception of shortcoming, their learning orientation, as well as stress and conflict related to technology access in the classroom can explain their instructional self-efficacy in an ICT-rich learning environment. The purpose of this article is to explore how these factors are associated with teachers’ self-efficacy of instruction in a technology-rich classroom, as well as mutual associations between the factors. The data set comes from a survey of 156 participating teachers from three upper secondary schools in Norway. The analysis shows that stress is strongly and negatively related to instructional self-efficacy. Shortcoming is in a moderate degree associated with instructional self-efficacy. There is a very strong and positive relationship between stress and conflict. There are also weak relations between teachers’ sense of shortcoming and stress. These empirical relations show upper secondary teachers’ challenges in a technology-rich classroom. However, these challenges are not so much focussed on in research. Teachers’ emphasis on knowledge acquired by practical experiences is positively associated with stress and weakly associated with shortcoming. In sum, these empirical results show that more research is needed on factors of shortcoming and teachers’ instructional self-efficacy.
Keywords: teachers, technology-rich classrooms, self-efficacy, instruction, stress, conflict, shortcoming
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