Assessment of public women polytechnic teachers‟ attitude toward using ICT in teaching engineering courses in Bangladesh

Abstract

Information and communication technology (ICT) have become continuously more important to education system over the past few era. There are outspread of research exists to explore and study the use of ICT in the process of teaching-learning in technical and Vocational Education (TVET). This research evaluated four public women polytechnic teacher’s attitude applying in the polytechnic institutes in teaching for the engineering subject in Bangladesh from the perspective of teachers and students. The aim of the study is to identify the level of attitude (excellent, very good, good, moderate, poor) using ICT for the engineering subject in polytechnic institutes, to identify difficulties of using ICTs in the teaching and learning, and to suggest how to improve attitude of the teacher’s toward using ICT in teaching for the engineering subject. This is the quantitative research. The study will delimit by only public women Polytechnic institutes. The subject of the research was the teachers, students and the head of the department of computer Technology, Electronics Technology and Architecture Technology. A total number of 4 polytechnic were selected to collect the research data. The research adopted the methods to collect research data by using questionnaires from teachers and the head of the department of Computer Technology, Electronics Technology and Architecture Technology from polytechnic institutes of Bangladesh. Almost 75% to 80% teachers were selected to carry out the research data. Then, the research data have been analyzed by the SPSS software 25.0.The results from the analysis shown that assess female polytechnic teacher’s attitude to using ICT during teaching engineering subjects was significant at the difference of 0.05 significance level but it was found that the mean value obtained the public women polytechnic teachers are using very good ICT during teaching in classroom. difficulties faced by teachers of using ICTs in the teaching learning in classroom was not significantly difference but it was found that the mean value obtained the public women polytechnic institutes teachers are faced difficulties when using ICT in classroom and their institutions. In the statement wise Chi-square test it was found majority of teachers were facing difficulties to use ICT in classroom during teaching engineering subject. They were also faced problem with labs, internet equipment’s and teaching materials during their study. The findings of the study may provide useful information to the authorities of TVET as well as to polytechnic institutes in order to improve teacher’s performance and teachers’ technical skills in use of ICT. The study may also help to identify the problems and throw some light on how to overcome the problems related to implementing integrated curriculum and other related institutional facilities.