The Development of Training Curriculum to Enhance Information and Communication Technologies Skill for Pre-service Teachers
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Abstract
This study aims at 1) developing a training curriculum to enhance the skills of using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for pre-service teachers; and 2) to examine results of experiment in using the training curriculum. The participants were 113 pre-service teachers from 4 classes of Early Childhood Education Program, Faculty of Education, Phuket Rajabhat University. These students were studying in year 1 to year 4. To collect the data, a set of training curriculum, achievement tests and a questionnaire were employed. The obtained data were statistically analyzed using average score, standard deviation and effectiveness index value. The results revealed that 1) the training curriculum which consisted of four contents including the use of Google Drive for collaborative online working, the use of Google Sites to create Electronics Portfolio
(E-Portfolio), the use of PowerPoint program to design Multimedia for Education and the use of applications and tools to create a form to receive and analyze the data for research conducting was appropriate to use to train ICT skills to pre-service teachers at the highest level; 2) The results of the experiment in using the training curriculum were as follows: the effectiveness index values of participants’ learning outcomes in each content were 61.96 percent, 71.92 percent, 68.79 percent and 65.87 respectively. These values were higher than 60 percent which was the specified value; and the participants were satisfied with all contents of the training curriculum at the highest level.
Keywords: Training Curriculum, Information and Communication Technologies Skills, Pre-service Teachers
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