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Using UTAUT model to assess the factors influencing the use of ICT in Ghanaian pre-tertiary mathematics education

Sampson Owusu Bandoh 1 , Emmanuel Akweittey 1 , Ebenezer Kwesi Lotey 1 * , Joseph Frank Gordon 1 , Ebenezer Appiagyei 1
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1 Department of Mathematics Education, Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development, Kumasi, GHANA* Corresponding Author
Journal of Digital Educational Technology, 4(1), 2024, ep2407, https://doi.org/10.30935/jdet/14297
Submitted: 24 November 2023, Published: 27 February 2024
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As the demand for acquiring Information communication and technology has increased rapidly due to the exponential growth of technological advancement in all human endeavor, researchers are also developing theories and/or models that could be used to describe and prognosticate humans’ espousal and use of these technologies as they are being released in the markets. The present study adapted one of the powerful models for information and communication technology (ICT) integration (thus, unified theory of acceptance and technology use) to assess pre-tertiary mathematics facilitators’ intentions and actual use of ICT for mathematics instructions in Ghana. This study adopts a quantitative research approach with a questionnaire as a survey instrument for collecting 185 valid data from both junior and senior high schools’ mathematics facilitators. Descriptive statistics and an enter multiple regression were deployed to validate the proposed research questions. Using SPPS v.23 as a statistical software for analyzing the data, the result reveals that, performance expectancy, and effort expectancy had a positive and significant effect on mathematics facilitators’ intentions toward ICT adoption. Moreover, social influence was significant but had a negative impact on facilitators intentions. The impact of mathematics facilitators’ intention to use ICT and the facilitating conditions (FCs) within the school environment was also a positive and significant predictor of facilitators’ ICT use behavior. It was concluded from the findings that FCs were the better predictor for mathematics teachers’ ICT use behavior than intention. Hence, the researchers recommended that more government expenditure must be allocated to infrastructures that would improve the use of ICT as well as frequent ICT training must be undertaken to enrich teachers’ knowledge in the affordance of using ICT in mathematics classrooms.
Keywords: Ghanaian pre-tertiary education, instructional technologies, mathematics education, pre-tertiary mathematics facilitators, unified theory of acceptance and technology use

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Bandoh, S. O., Akweittey, E., Lotey, E. K., Gordon, J. F., & Appiagyei, E. (2024). Using UTAUT model to assess the factors influencing the use of ICT in Ghanaian pre-tertiary mathematics education. Journal of Digital Educational Technology, 4(1), ep2407. https://doi.org/10.30935/jdet/14297

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