Conference Session

Installing & Assessing Technology Literacy Courses

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College; Greg Pearson, National Academy of Engineering; David Ollis, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

thisproject, as one of the goals of this project is to demonstrate to students all of the benefits thatwill accrue to those who learn about technology.Self-Efficacy: Self-efficacy measures students’ beliefs about their ability to achieve onschool-learning tasks. If students feel competent and empowered to succeed in school, theywill have high scores on self-efficacy. This measure also is particularly important for thisproject, as one of the goals is to increase students’ belief that science and technology learningare tasks that they can complete. This will be particularly important to students in this class,as many of them will be elementary school teachers. If the preservice teachers can develop asense of technological self-efficacy, they can