An Evaluation of Teachers’ Technological Knowledge and Pupils’ Academic Performance in Religious and Moral Education (RME)
Table 1.
The Views ofRME Teachers concerning their Technological Knowledge
| Statement | M | SD | | I can learn technology easily. | 4.36 | .64 | | I keep up with important new technologies. | 4.24 | .60 | | I know about a lot of different technologies. | 3.82 | 1.00 | | I use audio- visuals (example TV and motion pictures) in teaching. | 2.68 | 1.14 | | I use visual resources (examples chalkboards, felt board, bulletin, boards and flash cards). | 4.76 | .42 | | I use community resources (example resource persons and places of interest) in teaching. | 3.95 | .73 | | I use audio materials (example radio and tape recorders) in teaching. | 2.39 | 1.09 | | Instructional resources are not available. | 2.91 | 1.45 | | Instructional resources are very expensive. | 2.86 | 1.29 | | Use of instructional resources is time consuming. | 2.31 | 1.29 | | I am incompetent in using instructional resources. | 1.87 | 1.14 | | I use instructional resources for lessons. | 3.71 | 1.10 | | Instructional resources help me to relate religious lessons to real life experiences of pupils | 4.47 | .61 | Scale: 1-Strongly Disagree, 2-Disagree, 3-Uncertain, 4-Agree, 5-Strongly Agree Mean of means = 3.41 Mean of Standard Deviation = 0.96
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Mean of Standard Deviation = 0.96 |