The present research examines whether the pre-service teachers’ preparation in using digital tools in their teaching develops their acceptance of these tools as teaching tools.  Here, acceptance is measured in terms of the constructs of the technology acceptance model (TAM) introduced by Davis. It also examines the mediation of self-efficacy, anxiety of using digital tools for teaching mathematics and science and enjoyment of this use between the constructs of acceptance of digital tools for teaching. We used questionnaires that are part of TAM. Forty eight mathematics and science pre-service teachers participated in the study. We analyzed the collected data using SPSS 21. The research results indicate that the pre-service teachers’ preparation resulted in significant differences in their scores of affective and usage constructs associated with their acceptance of digital tools for mathematics and science teaching, except in the scores of anxiety.

Conference Title

The 13th International Conference on Technology in Mathematics Teaching

Conference Country

Palestine

Conference Date

July 3, 2017 - July 6, 2017

Conference Sponsor

Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and the University Lyon 1

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