Singaporean and Taiwanese pre-service teachers' beliefs and their attitude towards ICT: A comparative study

Proceedings - ICCE 2008: 16th International Conference on Computers in Education

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 865-869

  Chai, Ching Sing ^a   Hong, Huang Yao ^b   Teo, Timothy ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Attitudes toward ICT; Epistemological beliefs; Pedagogical beliefs

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDES TOWARD ICT; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; EPISTEMOLOGICAL BELIEFS; ICT USE; PEDAGOGICAL BELIEFS; PRE-SERVICE TEACHER; SECOND ORDERS; SINGAPORE;

TEACHING;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 84856957476     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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