The Importance of Teachers’ Need for Cognition in Their Use of Technology in Mathematics Instruction

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Modern technology offers an increasing number of tools for teaching mathematics, but technology adoption in schools encounters many barriers. The Technology Acceptance Model explains that technology usage is dependent on intentions, which rest on perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness. Less is known about the relationship between intentions and actual behavior. In the current study we show that the level of cognitive investment on the part of the teachers, captured by the construct of Need for Cognition (NC), is crucial in the use of technology in mathematical instruction, while controlling for a variety of background factors. Furthermore NC moderates the relationship between intentions and technology use, such that high NC weakens the relationship between the perceived usefulness of technology in pedagogy and its actual use.

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Tanas, L., Winkowska-Nowak, K., & Pobiega, K. (2020). The Importance of Teachers’ Need for Cognition in Their Use of Technology in Mathematics Instruction. Frontiers in Psychology, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00259

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