UNDERGRADUATE PRIMARY TEACHERS’ LEARNING STYLES AND THEIR USE OF ICT & NATIONAL MATHEMATICS SOFTWARE

Spyros Doukakis
PhD candidate
Dept. of Primary Education
University of the Aegean
Greece

Maria Chionidou-Moskofoglou
Dept. of Primary Education
University of the Aegean
Greece

Eleni Mangina-Phelan
School of CS and Informatics
University College Dublin
Ireland

This research project was conducted at the Department of Primary Education at the University of Aegean. The 234 participants consisted of undergraduate primary school teachers. Their learning styles, their attitudes, as well as their self-efficacy in relation to ICT and the Mathematics Educational Software of the Pedagogical Institute were studied using four research instruments. The results show that students learning styles are mainly sensing, visual, sequential and active. Furthermore, it seems that students are well acquainted with the use of ICT and have, therefore, a positive attitude. Statistical significant differences were observed between the visual learning style and the use of ICT, and also between males and females.

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