Investigating the Relationship between Media Literacy and Epistemological Beliefs with Technology Acceptance of Primary School Teachers in Yazd

Subject Areas : Virtual Learning

Rooh alah Khadem nia ¹ (Iran, Yazd, Yazd University, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, field of educational research)
seyed kazem alavi langaroodi ² (Assistant Professor Department of Education Yazd University, Yazd, Iran)
ahmad zandavanian ³ (Assistant Professor, The Department of Educational and Psychology Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Yazd University, Iran.)
hamideh hemati ⁴ (PhD student in Educational Psychology, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran)

Received: 2022-10-14 Accepted : 2023-02-08 Published : 2023-03-21

Keywords: epistemological beliefs, media literacy, virtual education, technology acceptance,

Abstract :

The aim of this study was to determine the role of media literacy and epistemological beliefs in technology acceptance of primary school teachers. The research method is descriptive and correlational. The statistical population of this study includes all teachers of the first and second grades of primary school in Yazd in the academic year 2020-2021, who were totally 2982 teachers; Out of this statistical population, 353 people were selected as the research sample using Cochran's formula by available sampling method. The research data collection tools consisted of three questionnaires: Davis Technology Acceptance, Potter Media Literacy and Schumer's Epistemological Beliefs. Data analysis was performed using Pearson correlation analysis, multiple regression. The findings showed that there is a positive and significant correlation between media literacy and teachers' epistemological beliefs with their technology acceptance and also 25.8% of the variance of technology acceptance by media literacy and epistemological beliefs has been predicted. In fact, the more primary school teachers enjoy media literacy and epistemological beliefs, the higher the technology acceptance. The results of this research can directly affect the acceptance of future online training courses and virtual course designers can benefit from it in a desirable way.

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