TEACHER DIGITAL COMPETENCE OF STUDENTS OF EDUCATION DEGREES: TRAINING, EVALUATION, CERTIFICATION
07GI1916
2019 - 2020
Teacher Digital Competence (TDC) is a key professional competence for in-service teachers. Providing pre-service teachers with training in this competence at the university, is considered to be essential in many international and national reports. Nowadays, the Catalan government and the Department of Education consider the TDC accreditation as a merit for competitions and job positions. In the near future the TDC accreditation will be a requirement for teachers’ professional careers and for this reason, universities need to provide their students with training that will enable them to work as teachers.
Throughout the different Bachelor's degrees in Education, training in TDC is not homogenous neither does it comply with the standards set for its evaluation. At the Double Bachelor’s Degree in Preschool and Primary School Education (experimental group), a specific training is being implemented in TDC. It will be interesting to carry out a comparative study of the different curricula and a diagnostic evaluation to detect deficiencies, weaknesses and strengths that will allow to improve the training of pre-service teachers based on the results obtained.
Participants
| Name | Institution |
| José Luis Lázaro Cantabrana | Universitat Rovira i Virgili |
| Mercè Gisbert Cervera | Universitat Rovira i Virgili |
| Mireia Usart Rodríguez | Universitat Rovira i Virgili |
| Josep Holgado García | Universitat Rovira i Virgili |
| Tania Molero Aranda | Universitat Rovira i Virgili |
General Objectives (GO):
- OG1. Identify, through an objective assessment test (COMDID-C), the level of Digital Teacher Competence (TDC) of the students’ of the Double Bachelor’s Degree in Preschool and Primary School Education, the Bachelor’s Degree in Preschool Education and the Bachelor’s Degree in Primary School Education.
- GO.2. Review the presence of the TDC (dimensions and indicators) in the curriculum of the degrees in Education.
Specific Objectives (SO):
- SO1. Study the presence of the TDC in the courses and the curriculum of the Degrees in Education.
- OE2. Implement training in TDC in the Double Bachelor’s Degree in Preschool and Primary School Education and the Bachelor’s in Primary School Education (experimental group), that were organized for 2 academic years in the framework of the projects: ACECIM, SIMUL @ B and PONT.
- SO3. Evaluate students’ TDC in the Degrees in Education.
- SO4. Compare the results obtained across different degrees.
- OE5. Define the components of the TDC that need to be included in the courses and the curriculum of the Degrees in Education according to the results obtained in the evaluation of the DTC.
Participants
The students participating are on their second year of their Bachelor’s Degree.
Research Instruments:
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Matrix of content analysis of teaching guides and courses according to the evaluation rubric of the TDC (Lázaro & Gisbert, 2015; Lázaro Usart & Gisbert, 2019).
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COMDID-C: Objective evaluation test of the TDC. The results of the validity calculations indicate that this is a well-designed instrument from a psychometric point of view and consistent with its measurements; particularly: Cohen's Kappa = 0.603 (reliable) and Livingston's coefficient = 0.723 (reliable).