Effect of Information and Communication Technology on Effectiveness and Creativity of High School Teachers of Fasa

Subject Areas : Infomartion Technology

Moslem Salehi ¹ ()
Abbas Gholtash ² ()
Asghar Azadmehr ³ ()

Received: 2010-12-07 Accepted : 2011-02-23 Published : 2011-01-01

Keywords: creativity, Effectiveness, Information and communication technology,

Abstract :

The purpose of this research was to study the effect of information and communication technology on effectiveness and creativity of high school teachers of Fasa city. The statistical population of the research included all male and female formal high school teachers of Fasa (317 people) in 2009-2010 academic year. The statistical sample of study included 111 teachers selected through a simple random sampling based on Morgan table. Data was collected by three questionnaires: effectiveness questionnaire, Torrance creativity questionnaire, and a researcher made information and communication technology questionnaire. Validity of instruments was reviewed by internal consistency method, and its reliability was calculated through Cronbach Alpha, which was 0.85 for effectiveness questionnaire, 0.70 for creativity questionnaire and 0.91 for information and communication technology questionnaire. The most important results of the study showed that there was a significant difference between effectiveness of teachers who used internet and those who did not use it. Also there was a significant difference between creativity and innovation of teachers who used information and communication technology and those who did not use it.