Does transformational leadership encourage teachers’ use of digital learning materials

To gain insight into how to promote teachers’ use of digital learning materials (DLMs) in their pedagogical practices we adopted the Integrated Model of Behaviour Prediction to investigate the relationships between organizational and teacher-related variables. A representative sample of 772 teachers...

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Published in:Educational management, administration & leadership administration & leadership, 2015-11, Vol.43 (6), p.1006-1025
Main Authors: Vermeulen, Marjan, Van Acker, Frederik, Kreijns, Karel, van Buuren, Hans
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Educational leadership
Elementary Secondary Education
Foreign Countries
Goodness of Fit
Information technology
Multimedia Instruction
Multimedia Materials
Netherlands
Norms
Online instruction
Online Surveys
Path Analysis
Pedagogy
Predictive Validity
Predictor Variables
Professional development
Questionnaires
Teacher Attitudes
Teacher Behavior
Teacher Surveys
Teachers
Technology Uses in Education
Transformational Leadership
Vocational Education
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Summary:To gain insight into how to promote teachers’ use of digital learning materials (DLMs) in their pedagogical practices we adopted the Integrated Model of Behaviour Prediction to investigate the relationships between organizational and teacher-related variables. A representative sample of 772 teachers from primary, secondary or vocational education took part in a survey study. Conjectured combinations of direct and indirect relationships between the variables were tested for the best model fit with structural equation modelling. The results suggest that a model with mediating relations from leadership through information and communication technology (ICT) policy and professional development activities to the variables self-efficacy, attitude and social norm, combined with direct relations from leadership to the latter, has the best fit for predicting teachers’ intention to use DLMs.
ISSN:1741-1432
1741-1440
DOI:10.1177/1741143214535749