HomePsychology and Education: A Multidisciplinary Journalvol. 3 no. 2 (2022)

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Knowledge, Skills, and Attitude: Basis for DEPED Support System

John Paciente

Discipline: Education

 

Abstract:

This descriptive study determine the teachers’ ICT knowledge, skills, and attitude as basis for support system in the Schools Division of Iloilo for the School Year 2020-2021. The respondents of the study were the public secondary school teachers and they classified according to age, sex, civil status, educational attainment, and length of service. The statistical tools used were the frequency count, percentage, mean, Mann-Whitney U-test, Kruskal Wallis H-test, and Spearman’s rho with the aid of computers’ Statistical Package for Social Sciences Software (SPSS) software. It found out that the level of teachers’ knowledge and skills on ICT were very high and had a very favorable attitude. In addition, there were significant differences existed in the level of ICT knowledge in sex, civil status, and educational attainment while no significant differences on age and length of service. That there were significant differences in the level of ICT teachers’ skills when classified according to sex and length of service while no significant differences existed on age, civil status, and educational attainment. Moreover, there were significant differences in teachers’ attitude on ICT when classified into sex and educational attainment while no significant difference existed on age, civil status and length of service. Lastly, there was significant relationships between skills and attitude among ICT teachers, no significant relationship existed between teachers’ knowledge and skills and between knowledge and attitude on ICT.



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