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Andrea Kárpáti, Anna Linda SzirmaiEötvös Loránd University (ELTE)

Centre for Multimedia in Education

Balázs Török, Institute for Higher Education Research, Budapest

The Effects of Personality Traits and ICT Skills on Teaching Style of

Experienced Educators

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EPICT: collaborative e-learning course for teachers on ICT

Learn about the role of ICT and new educational paradigms in groups

Develop ICT competencies / collaboration skills / pedagogical strategies through using digital tools, teaching aids and resources

Assessment based on the documentation of learning scenarios developed by the group

Facilitators challenge the team to go further than they could do on their own

www.epict.orgwww.epict.org

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Learning groups: school or discipline basedCourse modul evaluation based on group assignments – no individual grading

No fixed level of competence

All teachers raise their competences

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Contents

A. Compulsory modules The Internet Texts and writing processes Communication and collaboration

C. Compulsory School development and

innovation

B. Optional modules (select 4)• Digital images • Numbers and spreadsheets • The genre of presentations• Producing and using educational

websites• A head start with databases• Models and simulations• Using the media: Layout and DTP• Educational software• ICT, learning styles and classroom

management• ICT as a compensatory tool• Games and learning• Reading and ICT

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Sample: 151 secondary school teachers

Background variables: age, discipline, professional rank, personality traits

Evaluation tools: – ICT Competence Survey (ICS, attitudes / use / skills)– California Personality Inventory (CPI)– Educational Strategies Test (EST)– Discourse analysis in the VLE– Digital Portfolio for Groups

Pilot evaluation in Hungary

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Facilitators’ forum – issues on training the trainers discussed

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E-mail by group leader accompanyingmodule task submission

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VLE for EPICT

Online questionnaires

Modules

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Pedagogical Strategies Questionnaire

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Frequency of use documented in the Moodle DLE

Statistics per module for facilitator / group /student

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Log file analysis,all participants

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ICT Competency Survey (ICS): an index based measuring tool

Self report questionnaire piloted in a project measuring ICT readiness in 170 schools of a disctrict in Budapest.

Index (1) – School access to ICTIndex (2) – Home access to ICT Index (3) – ICT related attitudes Index (4) – ICT related competencies Index (5) – Educational use of ICT

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Four domains for every index

: „low” (value range: 0,01–1), „medium” (value range 1,01–2) „high” (value range 2,01–3) 0 value, indicating the non-existence of any

interpretable data for the index. (low level ICT access means sporadic, rare access while 0 level indicates no access to a PC).

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ICS indices were correlated with the presence / absence of certain personality traits measured by CPI to identify personality characteristics that tend to predict succeed or fail with ICT use in education.

Some traits can be enhanced through personality development training.

Training to use ICT in education through personality development

Correlations between personality traits and ICT skills, attitudes and competence

CPI ICS 1. School 1. School access access

2. Home 2. Home access access

3. ICT 3. ICT attitudes attitudes

4. ICT 4. ICT competencecompetence

5. Educa5. Educa tional usetional use

Sociability 0,154 -0,104 0,153 0,222* 0,123

Social skills 0,120 0,090 0,139 0,275** 0,015

Self respect 0,059 0,039 0,055 0,094 0,034

Gen. wellbeing (Wb)

0,219* -0,057 0,218* 0,256** -0,074

Self control 0,133 -0,031 0,222* 0,120 -0,064

Tolerance 0,178 0,000 0,354** 0,351** 0,007

Establ. good relationships

0,179 -0,030 0,233* 0,262** -0,149

Building a community

-0,093 0,200* -0,118 -0,139 0,230*

Intellectual efficiency (Ie)

0,183 0,016 0,238* 0,332** 0,002

Flexibility (Fl) 0,163 0,014 0,162 0,306** 0,126

Feminine qualities (Fm

-0,067 0,076 -0,020 -0,103 0,114

Extraversion (Ex) 0,151 -0,033 0,162 0,271** 0,052

Reliability (Re) 0,147 0,053 0,134 0,228* 0,055

Emotional stability (Es)

0,114 -0,030 0,115 0,226* 0,046

Intellect (In) 0,150 -0,016 0,142 0,208* 0,029

CPI ICS 1. School 1. School access access

2. Home 2. Home access access

3. ICT 3. ICT attitudeattitudes s

4. ICT 4. ICT competecompetencence

Pearson two-tailed correlation, significance levels: *: 0.05, **: 0,01

5. 5. EducaEduca-- tional usetional use

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Training to use ICT in education through personality development

To suit not only ICT skills level but also mindset and personality through– specially targeted mentoring methods,– responsive teaching environment– course content (best practice examples)– custom-tailored pedagogical

competence development through individual tasks and group games

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New content in EPICT F2F starting days

Personality development training– Develop positive self concept– Realise motives and urges– Be more open to working in team

Training in collaboration– Group building / management skills– Workflow management techniques