期刊名称：Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology
印刷版ISSN：1992-8645
电子版ISSN：1817-3195
出版年度：2017
卷号：95
期号：8
出版社：Journal of Theoretical and Applied
摘要：While technology has been recognise as having tremendous potential to enhance learning across all disciplines, there are queries on how teachers in Malaysia are able to optimize and inculcate critical and creative thinking skills by using technology to support teaching and learning. Despite of huge investment in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) over the past decade in various education initiatives, the potential of technology usage in Malaysian schools have not reached the desired outcomes among teachers and students. The study has explored the possible missing link for the realization of the expected return-of-investment by establishing a Malaysian competency standard to review and regulate ICT-related training curriculum. This study proposed to design and develop the Educational Technology Competency Standards for 21st Century Malaysian Teachers by using the modified Delphi technique. Education technology experts from local and foreign universities as well as practitioners of ICT in local schools, colleges and universities formed the Delphi expert panel. Using an initial draft version of the standard developed through literature review, document analysis and expert roundtable discussion, the experts went through an iterative cycle of review, compare, amend and comment until the expert group�s responses achieve consistency for each of the competency elements. The consistent and valid responses for each of the competency elements that achieve consensus then formed a reliable final all-encompassing ICT competency standard for the teaching profession in Malaysia. It is with this ICT competency standard that teacher training programmes can be adequately designed and developed to train teachers to achieve the desired ICT competency standard in compliance with the Malaysia National Education Blueprint 2013 � 2025.
