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A Systematic Review of Research Examining Teachers’ Competence-Related Beliefs About ICT Use: Frameworks and Related Measures

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Existing measures of teachers’ ICT-related competences and competence beliefs vary broadly across studies. This systematic review provides a summary of competence dimensions and assigned competences across different theoretical conceptualizations of teacher competence regarding ICT use, both basic and professional pedagogical competence. Guided by this summary, existing measures of teacher competence-related beliefs about ICT use are reviewed, described, and compared. A total of 45 studies published between 2016 and early 2021 are included in this rapid systematic review (databases: ERIC, ScienceDirect, tandfonline). Across all included studies, teachers’ competence-related beliefs about ICT use were assessed in 49 different ways. The majority of measures were designed to assess competence-related beliefs about professional pedagogical ICT use (n = 46) rather than competence-related beliefs about basic ICT use (n = 25). In addition to the large variability of assessed competence dimensions and assigned competences across the reviewed instruments, the labels used, the theoretical background, and the number of items used in the measures also vary. Thus, our systematic review points to a high diversity of measures of teachers’ competence-related beliefs about ICT use.

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Notes

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    We excluded the keywords ‘technology’ and ‘21st century,’ as well as ‘self-assessed competence OR self-assessed skills’ and “self-perceived competence OR self-perceived skills,” because they did not yield different results compared to our first chosen keywords.

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    The search was conducted in November and December 2020. Studies from 2021 were only included if they were already accepted and published online in December 2020.

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Rubach, C., Lazarides, R. (2023). A Systematic Review of Research Examining Teachers’ Competence-Related Beliefs About ICT Use: Frameworks and Related Measures. In: Scheiter, K., Gogolin, I. (eds) Bildung für eine digitale Zukunft. Edition ZfE, vol 15. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-37895-0_8

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