Exploring the structure of trainee teachers' ICT literacy: The main components of, and relationships between, general cognitive and technical capabilities

Educational Technology Research and Development

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 547-572

  Markauskaite, Lina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Higher education; ICT literacy; Preservice teachers' training; Principal component analysis; Self efficacy; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348892051     PISSN: 10421629     EISSN: 15566501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11423-007-9043-8     Document Type: Article

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