Female Secondary School Teachers’ Access to Internet and Its Application in Teaching Success

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Hassan Shahrakipour ¹ , Mahbobeh Rezai ²

1 - عضو هیات علمی
2 - دانشجو

Received: 2012-12-28 Accepted : 2013-02-01 Published : 2013-03-04

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  Abstract This study aimed at investigating the female secondary school teachers’ access to internet and its application in teaching success. This was a survey study. In order to carry out, 393 out of 11839 teachers were selected through stratified random sampling on the basis of Morgan’s sampling size. A researcher developed instrument measured on Likert scale was used to collect the data. The data were analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistics. The results showed that the there is a significant difference between the amount of internet use among teachers in different educational districts. The results also showed that there is a significant correlation between the teachers’ use of internet, their knowledge of modern methods of teaching, teaching success, creativity in teaching, and schools facilities and conditions were sampled using the Morgan and through stratified random sampling was chosen as an example. The range of the Likert questionnaire for collecting data and the descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Data analysis shows that the statistically significant difference between the rate of internet use among teachers in different areas of education, and that significant relationship are between internet use and knowledge of modern methods of teaching, successful teaching, his creativity in teaching and school facilities and conditions.

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