ECER 2012 Congress

Program

Professors Sergi Fàbregues and Julio Meneses from the UOC have prepared, together with Professor David Rodríguez from the UAB,  their conference on the subject "The Contribution of School-related Factors to ICT Use as a Management Tool in Primary and Secondary Education". The conference will be delivered by professor Rodriguez.

Recent research on the factors that promote ICT implementation in schools has emphasised the need to include school level variables and concluded that focusing solely on variables at class level or individual teacher characteristics is insufficient (Vanderlinde & Van Braak, 2010). These studies have highlighted how teachers' perceptions about structural conditions such as ICT policy planning, ICT support and ICT infrastructure have a positive influence on ICT integration in primary schools (Tondeur, van Keer, van Braak & Valcke, 2008; Tondeur, Valcke & van Braak, 2008). While these authors contributed to the understanding of the complexity of ICT implementation, they did so mainly in teaching and learning processes in the context of classroom use. The study presented here takes a step further and focuses on the influence of organisational conditions on teachers and administrators’ management use of ICT outside the classroom.