Investigating Effects of Self-Efficacy and Infrastructure on Teachers ICT Use, an Extension of UTAUT

Abstract

Information and communication technology (ICT), an effective teaching tool for 21st-century classrooms, needs few factors for its effectual use as evidenced in the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model. The purpose of this empirical investigation was to investigate the effect of two such significant factors teachers self-efficacy and perceived infrastructure, on their ease of ICT use. The study employed a descriptive survey method within an ex-post-facto research design taking 400 teachers as samples from 100 purposively selected Indian secondary schools. Data were analyzed descriptively and inferentially. Regression analyses were conducted to find out the effects of two independent variables on the dependent variable. Results revealed that perception of self-efficacy and infrastructure were significant predictors of the teachers ease of ICT use. The two independent variables were found to have a high collective prediction on the teachers ICT use behavior and for every 1 standard unit simultaneous increase self-efficacy and perceived infrastructure, the ease of ICT use will increase by 0.94 standard unit. Perceived infrastructure was found to have a stronger individual effect on the ease of use than self-efficacy. The findings support the UTAUT model and advocate its further extension towards UTAUT+ adding these two new factors to the existing model.