Analysis of digital technologies use by school principals and teachers
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https://doi.org/10.21680/1981-1802.2019v57n52ID15905Keywords:
School principals. Teachers. Technology uses in education.Abstract
This paper presents the results of a study developed in the scope of the use of digital technologies in school context by school principals and teachers in primary and secondary Portuguese education. The aim was to analyze the utilization levels of digital technologies and the levels of proficiency in their use presented by the school principals and the teachers. Organized on a descriptive and exploratory quantitative methodological approach, the study involved the data collection from 133 school principals and 1908 teachers through the application of three self-report scales. The results reported that school principals present favorable average scores of proficiency and use of the technologies in their professional practices. They also showed high levels of use of the technologies by teachers. The analysis, crossing the results of the principals with the teachers, allowed to distinguish the schools based on different levels of proficiency evidenced by their principals and to detect that within the latter, the use of the technologies evidenced by their teachers is similar to level of proficiency revealed by the respective principals.
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