Using the UTAUT Modell to Assess the Factors Influencing the use of ICT in Ghanaian Pre-Tertiary Mathematics Education

Abstract

As the demand for the adoption and use of 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 modells that could be used to explain and predict humans’ acceptance and use of these technologies as they are been released in the markets. The present study adapted one of the powerful modells for 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. The study adopted a quantitative research design with a questionnaire 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 analysing 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 within the school environment was also a positive and significant predictor of facilitators' ICT use behaviour. It was concluded from the findings that facilitating condition was the better predictor for mathematics teachers’ ICT use behaviour than teachers’ intention. Hence, the researcher recommended that more government expenditure must be allocated to infrastructures that would improve the use of ICT as well and frequent ICT training must be undertaken to enrich teachers’ knowledge in the affordance of using ICT in mathematics classrooms.