Study of students’ required skills in information and communication technology for the effectiveness of middle school curriculum courses from teachers and experts viewpoints

Subject Areas : Educational Science

زهرا Taleb ¹ (دانشجوی دکترای رشته برنامه ریزی درسی، واحد علوم و تحقیقات تهران، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی)
علی SHariatmadari ² (عضو هیات علمی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد علوم تحقیقات)
مریم Sefnaragi ³ (عضو هیات علمی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد علوم تحقیقات)

Received: 2017-01-31 Accepted : 2017-01-31 Published : 2011-06-22

Keywords: Curriculum, middle school, information and communication technology, ICT skills,

Abstract :

This study reviews the teachers and experts’ viewpoints on students’required information and communication technology (ICT) skills foreffectiveness of middle school curriculum courses. Using Morgan’stable, out of 11010 teachers, 317 were selected and of 130 experts 37were selected. All the research population belonged to the nineteendistricts in Tehran. The research tool was a researcher-madequestionnaire using the World Foundation ICDL questionnaire. Thereliability was confirmed according to Cronbach's alpha (93%). Datawas analyzed by Chi-Square, one-way ANOVA, Tukey, LSD andMann Whitney. The study shows that from teachers and ICT expertsviewpoints, four ICT modules: Web browsing and e-mail, Using theComputer and Managing Files, Power point and Word processor havepriority importance of education. Basic concepts of hardware and IThad second priority. Using databases and spreadsheets modules hadthe third priority. Meanwhile, skills priority in all seven modules wasdetermined. No significant differences were observed betweenteachers and experts viewpoint.