The current study uses path modeling to investigate the relationship between extrinsic and intrinsic factors that influence early childhood educators’ digital technology use. Survey data from 1234 early childhood educators indicate that attitudes toward the value of technology to aid children’s learning have the strongest effect on technology use, followed by confidence and support in using tec...

By using an original framework involving complementary statistical approaches, we investigated the environmental attitudes of 6,379 pre-service and in-service teachers in 16 countries of Europe and its neighbourhood. To test hypotheses about the nature of environmental attitudes, we examined the variation across groups of individuals (between-class analysis), investigated the independent effect...

Policies on the inclusion of students with special educational needs in mainstream classrooms have focused attention on how general education teachers perceive these students. Furthermore with specific learning disabilities forming a large group of diverse students, and teachers’ attitudes often not changing over the career span, preparing teachers for inclusive education is vitally important. ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Research on intergroup attitudes in children has focused on contact with out-group peers but neglected the role of adults. This cross-sectional self-report study examined the association between the ethnic attitudes of 174 minority (Turkish-and Moroccan–Dutch) preadolescents (ages 9–13) and the perceived interpersonal relationships with their (native Dutch) majority group ...

Of the many roles that the academic-educator may fulfill, that of teacher is particularly challenging. Building on prior recommendations from the literature, this article identifies the skill set of teachers across the medical education continuum-characteristics of attitude and attributes, knowledge, and pedagogic skills that permit effective teaching to be linked with effective learning and un...

Given that attitudes play an important role in teaching and learning, it is of the utmost importance to look into teachers’ attitude towards students, especially those with special needs, and detect any differences between regular and special education teachers. To this end, a sample of 107 special education teachers’ attitude towards such students was compared to that of the same number of reg...

Tablet computers are increasingly becoming commonplace in classrooms around the world. More than half of early childhood educators in the U.S. now have access to tablets, making it imperative to understand how they are using the device and what influences such use. The current study draws on survey data from 411 preschool educators serving 3to 5-year-olds in school-based, center-based, and Head...

According to the report of TIMSS (1999), Japanese children’s performance in mathematics is relatively high, but their attitudes towards mathematics are extremely negative; in fact they are at the lowest in the world. This is a serious problem for mathematics education in Japan. This article discusses ways to improve the current mathematics education system, presenting concrete examples. To impr...