Profiling ICT availability and determinants of teachers` ICT acceptance in Jember Schools, East Java, Indonesia

Abstract

This study on ICT acceptance was conducted with two major purposes: (i) to profile ICT availability in three (3) categories of national standard schools (SMP, SMA and SMK) in the district of Jember, Indonesia, and (ii) to test an extended Technology Acceptance Model that hypothesized the relationships among computer self-efficacy (CSE), organizational support (OS), perceived ease of use (PEU) and perceived usefulness (PU) as determinants of Jember teachers’ intention to use (INT) ICT in teaching and learning. A total of 1,137 teachers from 65 schools participated in the survey. Two types of statistical analysis were employed to analyze the data: (i) descriptive analysis was used to describe ICT availability in the three schools, and (ii) Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to assess the direct and indirect effects of CSE and OS on Jember teachers’ intention to use ICT. The analysis revealed that ICT availability across the three school types varied from one school to another and was not consistent. Basic ICT facilities, especially computer sets, were found to be lacking in each school type. The SEM results revealed that all four hypothesized factors – CSE, OS, PU and PEU – significantly and positively influenced Jember teachers’ intention to use ICT, accounting for approximately 63% of the variance explained. The structural model also produced a statistically significant change in the chi-square value when tested across gender, indicating that gender moderated the structural model. The findings have important implications for stakeholders and policy makers, particularly with respect to their efforts to galvanize greater ICT utilization among teachers in Jember schools.