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Exploring the Relationship among Motivational Constructs and Preservice Teachers' Use of Computational Thinking in Classrooms
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Akcaoglu, Mete; Özcan, Meryem Seyda; Hodges, Charles B. – Computers in the Schools, 2023
As a key motivational factor that determines future teaching success with Computational Thinking (CT), in this cross-sectional survey study, we investigated if and how preservice teachers' (n = 76) self-efficacy for CT teaching, their usage of CT tools, and their motivation (utility value) were (inter)related. Through a series of regression…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Preservice Teachers, Self Efficacy
Understanding the Relationship among Self-Efficacy, Utility Value, and the Community of Inquiry Framework in Preservice Teacher Education
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Akcaoglu, Mete; Akcaoglu, Mustafa Ozturk – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2022
School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic have shown the importance of distance education, and teachers have been tasked with designing and delivering online courses in a short amount of time without much preparation or deliberation. As the future generation of teachers, preservice teachers need to be prepared to teach online, and their…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Self Concept, Student Teacher Attitudes, Value Judgment
An Exploration of Factors Impacting Middle School Students' Attitudes toward Computer Programming
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Akcaoglu, Mete; Rosenberg, Joshua M.; Hodges, Charles B.; Hilpert, Jonathan C. – Computers in the Schools, 2021
Computer programming is becoming an essential skill for young students regardless of their education or career goals. Therefore, for students to develop and for educators and researchers to accurately measure self-efficacy in and value for programming is important. Although student motivation in subject matter can be measured using self-report…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Value Judgment, Self Efficacy
The Role of Relevance in Future Teachers' Utility Value and Interest toward Technology
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Kale, Ugur; Akcaoglu, Mete – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2018
Seeing the relevance of tasks for future use is important for developing value and interest in them. We employed a pre- and post-test quasi-experimental design using a mixed-methods approach to examine if reflecting on the relevance of technology to future teaching practices influences elementary and secondary preservice teachers' utility value…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Quasiexperimental Design, Mixed Methods Research, Technology Uses in Education