Turkish K12 Teachers’ Intentions toward new Communicational Technologies: Building an Effective Technology plan via the theory of planned behavior

Vol.1 No.3

Year : 2006

Issue : Dec-Feb

Title  : Turkish K12 Teachers’ Intentions toward new Communicational Technologies: Building an Effective Technology plan via the theory of planned behavior 

Author Name  : Gulsun Kurubacak 

Synopsis  : 

The mail purpose of this qualitative research is to find out Turkish K12 teachers’ intentions toward New Communication Technologies (NCTs) that they redesign and revolutionize their new roles in these new interactive milieus carefully. In this study, the K12 teachers’ intentions are indications of their readiness and immediate antecedent of behaviors to utilize NCTs in the classrooms. Therefore, the Theory of Planned Behavior (TpB) is chosen to expose their intentions toward these cutting-edge technologies. Based on the main purpose of the research, there are three main research concerns: 1) the Behavioral Beliefs of Turkish K12 teachers toward NCTs; 2) the Normative Beliefs of Turkish K12 teachers toward NCTs, and 3) the Control Beliefs of Turkish K12 teachers toward NCTs?