Determinants of ICT Integration in Quality Enhancement of Teaching Learning Process: A Study of Perspective of in-Service Teachers

Authors: Mubeen Zehra , Dr. Arif Mohammad

Pages: 67-72

Abstract:

The Digital India Campaign is playing a very significant role in transforming our nation into a digitally empowered society andknowledge economy. While education plays a critical role in this transformation, in return, ICT plays an important role inimproving educational processes and outcomes. Thus, the relationship between ICT and education is bidirectional. ICT is nosubstitute but now highly considered as a powerful tool for teachers & learners in teaching-learning process. Teachers use ICTfor making teaching-learning process more interesting, creative and effective. In this paper, the researcher explored the factorsthat determine the integration of ICT in teaching-learning process at school level based in Delhi. Descriptive survey researchdesign was implemented in the study. The focus of the study was on identifying the factors that influence teachers teachingstrategies and lead to effective and efficient integration of ICT for enhancing the quality of teaching-learning process. A selfconstructedquestionnaire was employed on 50 in-service teachers having 2-year B.Ed. (General) degree to know theirperception about competencies, knowledge, confidence, strategies and pedagogical skills used to integrate ICT in teachinglearningprocess. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics like mean, SD and percentile. The findings of the studyrevealed that most of the sampled in-service teachers perceived that integrating ICT enhances the quality of teaching-learningprocess. The determinants of ICT integration that were found to enhance the quality of teaching-learning process are teachers’self-efficacy, attitude, accessibility of ICT facilities and resources, and teachers’ competencies and pedagogical skills