Exploring Predictors of Preservice Teachers’ TPACK Core

Rhonda Christensen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2023 (Mar 13, 2023) pp. 2433–2442

Data related to teacher technology self-efficacy, teacher preparation technology experiences and TPACK Core were collected from 181 preservice students over six semesters. TPACK Core is a scale designed to measure the intersection of the TPACK model....

Topics: Research & Evaluation, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)

Internal Consistency Reliability for the Teachers Attitudes

Rhonda Christensen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 843–844

The Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Information Technology Questionnaire (TAT) was developed during the second phase of the 1995-97 Matthews Chair for Research in Education Project at the University of North Texas. During Phase I (1995-96) activities...

Validating a Handheld Computing Self-Efficacy Scale

Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 879–884

The use of handheld technologies is becoming widespread in the K-12 environment. While students seem ready to embrace these devices it is not as easy to identify readiness in educators. Teacher and educator familiarity is essential prior to...

Topics: Integration

Preservice Educator Learning in a Simulated Teaching Environment

Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 938–946

Assessment of learning within a simulated teaching environment is addressed within the context of a federally funded project to improve the maturity and retention of preservice teachers. Analysis of matched treatment and comparison data from two...

Validating the Computer Attitude Questionnaire (CAQ)

Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen

Annual Meeting of the Southwest Educational Research Association 1996 (Jan 26, 1996)

The Computer Attitude Questionnaire (CAQ) is a Likert-type self-report instrument with paired-comparison items added to provide supplemental information. The CAQ is intended for use in the middle school environment, grades six to eight. A 1993...

Evolution of an Online Data Acquisition System

Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 1999–2001

The evolution of online data collection systems implemented by the Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) Millennium Project team (US Dept. of Ed. Capacity Building Grant # P342A990474) during the 1999-2000 school year is described....

Topics: Databases

Changes in Cognitive Knowledge Structures During an Online Educational Technology Course

Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 388–395

The preparation of teachers to integrate technology is a critical component for their future use of technology in the classroom. Changes in relationships among technology related variables during a semester long online course revealed that students...

Topics: Performance and outcome assessment, Teacher education and technology integration, online learning environments

Predictors of STEM Career Interest Among Middle School Students: Implications for Educational Reform, Policy, and Innovation

Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 625–630

Pre-post matched pairs data were collected from 499 males and 416 females in grades six and seven during 2015-2016 from 24 classrooms in nine US states. Fourteen cognitive and non-cognitive indicators of content knowledge, attitudes toward climate...

Topics: Teacher education and technology integration, Learning technologies for transformational change, Environmental education

Advancement of Student Technology Integration Skills through University Pre-service Coursework

Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 1505–1510

In the United States (U.S.) there is a shortage of new teachers possessing skills to integrate technology into the classroom. The U.S. Department of Education has recognized this problem and has funded projects targeted at pre-service teacher...

Topics: Educational Technology, Teachers, Integration, Classrooms

Blending Formal and Informal Learning Through an Online Immersive Game Environment: Contrasts in Interactions by Middle School Boys and Girls

Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 535–540

Analysis of data gathered from a game-based learning environment produced for an NSF-funded STEM education project has demonstrated that middle school teachers can increase time on task and enhance interest in richer learning of classroom content...

Topics: Games & Simulations

Relationships Between Teacher Personality Type and Technology Integration Indicators

Rhonda Christensen; Michele Williams

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 2745–2753

High school teachers in their first year of a one-to-one mobile learning environment completed surveys related to technology integration. Many teachers also completed the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment. Multiple measures of technology ...

Topics: Integration, Personality, K-12 Teachers and School Leaders Related, Research & Evaluation, Information Technology Diffusion/Integration

Connecting Students to Mars and Stars using Innovative Technologies

Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 29, No. 3 (July 2020) pp. 181–192

Using innovative technologies to study Mars and the sun and other stars is one way to engage students in learning more about our solar system and how it impacts us on a daily basis. The focus of this paper is to highlight several innovative...

Using a Simulated Teaching Environment to Improve Teaching Effectiveness as Measured by Core Teaching Standards

Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2023 (Mar 13, 2023) pp. 562–565

Twenty-seven teachers and teacher candidates completed two to five iterations of a simulated teaching module in simSchool, an online “flight simulator for teachers” environment. The system recorded instances of pedagogical practices as educators...

Topics: Games & Simulations, New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Advancing Teachers Through Stages of Adoption of Technology in the Classroom

Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 1983–1987

Stages of Adoption of Technology are used in conjunction with other assessment instruments to determine attitude, skill and technology access changes that assist in moving a teacher further along in his/her level of classroom technology integration. ...

Topics: Teachers, Integration, Professional Development, Developmental Stages

Maggie Goes to Mars: Adapting Innovative Technology Activities for Remote Learning Opportunities

Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek

Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Vol. 40, No. 4 (October 2021) pp. 331–346

The challenge, Maggie Goes to Mars, features a beagle (friendly canine), faced with the need to repair a crucial instrument on the Insight spacecraft that landed on Mars in 2018, in order to allow Insight to continue doing the job it was sent to do –...

Pathway for Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Infuse Technology

Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek

Computers in the Schools Vol. 23, No. 3 (Feb 16, 2007) pp. 1–21

The Millennium Project was funded by the U.S. Department of Education Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) program for four years spanning 1999-2003. The project was led by the University of North Texas and sought to increase the...

Effect of Technology-Based Programs on First- and Second-Grade Reading Achievement

Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen

Computers in the Schools Vol. 24, No. 3 (Jan 18, 2008) pp. 23–41

Data gathered from 25 rural public school districts in Texas during 2002-2003 were used to assess the impact of educator professional development and technology-intensive classroom learning activities on first- and second-grade students' reading...

Internal Consistency Reliabilities for 14 Computer Attitude Scales

Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 8, No. 4 (2000) pp. 327–336

A compendium of 14 previously-published instruments for assessing teachers' attitudes toward computers was adminis-tered to 621 educators in Texas, Florida, New York, and Cal-ifornia during 1995-96. A total of 284 items extracted from 14 previously...

Topics: Computers, Attitudes

Effect of technology integration education on the attitudes of teachers and their students

Rhonda Renee Christensen

(1997) pp. 1–150

This study analyzed the effect of technology integration education on teachers' and students' attitudes toward information technology. Two instruments measuring similar attributes were used to assess teachers' and students' attitudes. Differences in ...

Impact of Technology-Intensive Professional Development on Classroom Gains in Reading Achievement

Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 2339–2346

This paper contains a corollary study of scientifically-based research conducted to verify the impact of one large-scale U.S. Dept. of Education Technology Innovation Challenge Grant's activities (Grant # R303A99030, 1999-2004) on K-3 reading...

Topics: Achievement, Educational Technology, Professional Development

Constructing the Teachers' Attitudes Toward Computers (TAC) Questionnaire

Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek

Annual Meeting of the Southwest Educational Research Association 1996 (Jan 26, 1996)

This paper reports on the first stage of the construction and refinement process underway in pursuit of developing a brief composite instrument to measure teachers' attitudes toward computers. Items (n=284) from 14 questionnaires assessing teacher...

Perceptions of Early, Mid or Late Career Teachers Regarding Technology Integration, Technology Proficiency and Access to Tools and Resources

Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 946–953

This study is based on teacher classifications according to the number of years spent teaching. Teachers are classified as Early, Mid and Late Career. Differences among categories of teachers are examined with regard to technology proficiency,...

Topics: Research & Evaluation, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Teacher and Student Perceptions During the First Year of a One-to-One Mobile Learning Initiative

Rhonda Christensen; Michele Williams

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 1604–1609

Data were gathered from 73 teachers and 833 students in an all male high school in the southwest region of the United States. This paper is based on data collected the first year in which all students were provided an iPad mobile learning device....

Topics: Mobile Learning

Capitalizing on Informal Learning Opportunities to Enhance Formal Learning in Classroom Environments

Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 1920–1926

Three middle school sites are compared to assess the measured impact of informal space science education activities on science content knowledge, enthusiasm for an event such as a total solar eclipse, and longer-term dispositions toward space...

Topics: Science Education, Research & Evaluation

Preparing K-12 Schools for a Pandemic Before It Occurs

Rhonda Christensen; Curby Alexander

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 28, No. 2 (2020) pp. 261–272

While almost all K-12 schools closed for the COVID-19 pandemic with little or no preparation, one school began to prepare 12 years ago for a time such as this. In 2006, the school leadership began to consider what would happen to teaching and...

Using Digital Simulation to Address Implicit Bias in Teaching

Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2022 (Apr 11, 2022) pp. 477–483

Bias reduction in teaching practices is a key foundation for enabling future leaders of society to achieve their highest innate and positively nurtured potential. The COVID-19 Pandemic has highlighted disparities in learning and emphasized the...

Topics: Games & Simulations, Equity & Social Justice

Preservice Teachers and K-12 Learners: Alternative Space Science Engagement Perspectives

Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2022 (Apr 11, 2022) pp. 1040–1045

During the COVID-19 pandemic, members of the NASA Space Science Education Consortium (NSSEC) and the Heliophysics Activation Team (HEAT) from the University of North Texas began to develop COVID pivot activities for space science engagement at the...

Topics: Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, STEM Innovation

Relationship of Innovation Attitudes to STEM Dispositions and Career Interest

Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2022 (Jun 20, 2022) pp. 232–241

The Innovation Attitude Survey (IAS) was administered to middle school participants who were part of a state-wide, STEM related program in the Western US during 2021. The IAS contains three factors related to a) being an inventor; b) motivation and...

Topics: Performance and outcome assessment, Teacher education and technology integration, Contextualized innovation (accessibility, scalability, usability, & sustainability)

Preservice versus Inservice Educators' Attitudes Toward Information Technology

Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 1319–1322

This paper compares and contrasts attitudes of preservice teachers to those of inservice teachers and administrators. In the first section we describe categories of preservice and inservice educators from which data has been gathered, while the...

Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology, Preservice Teacher Education

IT Competencies and Attitudes: A Worldwide Perspective

Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 1671–1676

This paper introduces one of the key topics addressed in the symposium, Information Technology in Education Worldwide. The focus in on the importance of attitudes and competencies in the implementation of information technology in education....

Topics: Attitudes, Educational Technology

Contrasts in Student Perceptions of STEM Content and Careers

Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 2048–2053

Attitudinal data were gathered from 160 high school students participating in their second year of a residential science and mathematics program on at university campus in which they finish their last two years of high school in conjunction with...

Instruments for Assessing the Impact of Technology in Education

Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek

Computers in the Schools Vol. 18, No. 2 (Jun 24, 2002) pp. 5–25

Ten years of instrument development are summarized and placed within a framework for assessing the impact of technology in education. Seven well-validated instruments spanning the areas of attitudes, beliefs, skills, competencies, and technology...

Influence of Home Access on Attitudes, Skills, and Level of Use for Teachers and Students in Technology Integrating Classrooms

Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 2037–2038

The interaction of home access and school use of computers has been a topic of discussion among educational researchers for more than a decade. Evaluation of a U.S. Department of Education Technology Innovation Challenge Grant and a Preparing...

Topics: Evaluation, Educational Technology, Teachers, Computers, Schools

Teacher Home Access as a Primary Indicator of Stage of Adoption of Technology

Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 867–870

The authors previously reported finding extensive differences in teacher attitudes and skills as well as student perceptions of technology, based on whether or not information technology users had access to a computer at home (Knezek & Christensen,...

Topics: Professional Development, Educational Technology, Integration, Teachers, Computers

The Technology in Education Competency Survey (TECS): A Self-Appraisal Instrument for NCATE Standards

Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 2288–2289

The Technology in Education Competency Survey (TECS v1.1) is a self-assessment rating form covering teacher competencies in major areas addressed by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) standards for the USA. It ...

Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology, Preservice Teacher Education, Competencies, Students

Changes in Teacher Dispositions Among Participants in Hands-on Teaching of a STEM Curriculum

Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 2067–2073

Going Green! Middle Schoolers Out to Save the World (MSOSW) focuses on students using energy monitoring equipment to assess the amount of standby power consumed by their home entertainment devices and appliances when not performing any useful...

Topics: Science Education, Research & Evaluation

Contrasts in Openness toward Mobile Learning in the Classroom: A Study of Elementary, Middle and High School Teachers

Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek

International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA) 2017 (2017)

In a study involving 1414 elementary, middle school, and high school teachers from a large school district in the southwestern USA, the authors examine the similarities and differences among teachers at the three levels of K-12 education common in...

Researching Impact: Measuring Technology Enhanced Outcomes from the NASA Space Science Education Consortium

Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen

Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Vol. 39, No. 4 (2020) pp. 399–420

A conceptual framework for empirical research on the impact of NASA Space Science Education Consortium (NSSEC) activities is presented in this paper, along with a cross-referencing system between the NSF-based NSSEC evaluation framework and...

Simulations and Teacher Professional Development: Approaches to Cross-Validation of Culturally Responsive Teaching Strategies

Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek

SITE Interactive Conference 2022 (Oct 05, 2022) pp. 136–139

To improve teaching practices to be more culturally responsive to the diversity of classrooms that exists, a simulated teaching program is being implemented to provide reflective feedback intended to reduce implicit biases that may exist. This birds-...

Topics: Decolonized, Inclusive, and Empowering: The role of educational technology

Space Science Activities to Enhance Middle School Students’ Interest in STEM: Follow-up Assessment of Disposition Retention

Gerald August Knezek; Rhonda Christensen

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2019 (Nov 04, 2019) pp. 971–980

Sixth grade students participating in a four-hour hands-on technology enriched space science camp acquired more positive dispositions toward space science (ES = .46, p

Topics: Performance and outcome assessment, Learning technologies for transformational change, Augmented and Virtual Reality

Learner Attributes and Technology-Enriched Environments Associated with Positive Climate Change Attitudes and Energy and Environmental Science Knowledge in Middle School Students

Gerald August Knezek; Rhonda Christensen

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018 (Jun 25, 2018) pp. 1736–1743

Pre-post data from 764 treatment and 553 comparison middle school students from nine US states were analyzed to examine STEM-related attitudes and dispositions aligning with climate change beliefs and intentions, and acquisition of energy and...

Topics: Learner-centered, and self-directed learning, Environmental education, Education for sustainable development

A Preliminary Analysis of the Teacher Educator Technology Competency Survey

Gerald August Knezek; Rhonda Christensen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 1174–1180

The Teacher Educator Technology Survey v1.0 is a 12-item Likert-type instrument developed during 2018 based on the Teacher Educator Technology Competencies (TETCs). This instrument was administered to a convenience sample of 83 participants at the...

Topics: faculty development, Research & Evaluation

Transition Points for the Gender Gap in Computer Enjoyment

Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek; Theresa Overall

Journal of Research on Technology in Education Vol. 38, No. 1 (2005) pp. 23–37

Data gathered from 10,000 Texas public school students in Grades 3-12 over the years 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2005 were analyzed to replicate findings first discovered as a byproduct of evaluation of a large scale U.S. Department of Education...

Changes in Teacher Attitudes During Information Technology Training

Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen; Des Rice

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1997 (1997) pp. 763–766

A compendium of 14 previously-published instruments for assessing teachers’ attitudes toward information technology was used to measure pre-post changes among nine groups of K-12 educators completing six weekly training sessions in a southern Texas...

Measures of Teacher Stages of Technology Integration and Their Correlates with Student Achievement

Rhonda Christensen; Darlene Griffin; Gerald Knezek

Annual Meeting of American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education 2001 (March 2001)

Two self-report measures of technology integration are introduced along with a formal model illustrating their utility as outcome measures for level of technology infusion in classroom environments. Findings from two Texas studies involving: (1)...

Vampire Power and STEM Interests for Middle Schoolers Out to Save the World (MSOSW)

Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek; Tandra Tyler-Wood

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 1434–1435

Classroom teachers and students will present project outcomes via video and audio conferencing software and through videos created by the students. Students have calculated their carbon footprints and will report amounts being wasted with stand-by...

Assessing Alignment of Pedagogical Experience and Confidence in a Simulated Classroom Environment

Susan Hopper; Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 2870–2876

This project executes a quasi-experimental design for the analysis of outcomes of 58 pre-service teachers enrolled in a technology integration course at a mid-southwestern university. The paper explores two research questions: 1) After pre-service...

Instruments for Assessing Interest in STEM Content and Careers

Tandra Tyler-Wood; Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 18, No. 2 (April 2010) pp. 345–368

Two new instruments created to assess perceptions of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) disciplines and careers are analyzed and found to have respectable to excellent internal consistency reliability, as well as good content,...

Topics: Information Communication Technologies, Engineering, Science, Attitudes, Teachers, Computers, Assessment, Mathematics, Evaluation, Middle School Education, Research Methods, Students

The Expanded Will, Skill, Tool Model : A Step toward Developing Technology Tools That Work

Robert Hancock; Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 1415–1422

This paper presents an expansion of the Will, Skill, Tool model of technology integration originally developed in 2000 (Knezek, Christensen, Hancock, and Shoho, 2000). This model posits that educator desire to use technology (will), training in use...

Topics: Integration

Using Reflection and Feedback in a Simulated Teaching Environment to Improve Instruction for Differentiated Learners

Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek; Jenna Kelley

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2022 (Jun 20, 2022) pp. 726–730

Improving teaching strategies through a simulated teaching environment has been shown to improve teacher self-efficacy, teaching skills, classroom management and multicultural awareness. The current study is using the simulation program to help...

Topics: diversity, Simulations for learning