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Research reveals that teachers' attitudes towards technology use foster the didactic and effective use of technology at school (Ocak & Akdemir, 2008; Pelgrum, 2001). In fact, this attitude correlates with the level of trust (Atkins, Vasu, 2000) and beliefs, which are to be regarded as antecedents of attitudes towards behavior. The competence and the level of confidence in the use of ICTs are important factors for student learning, as well as learning how they support and improve learning tasks (Baggott La Velle, McFarlane, & Brawn, 2003). Convergence is that the beliefs of an individual (or cognitive responses) have a significant effect on intentional use and perceived competence about the attitude to the use of ICT (Agarwal & Karahanna, 2000; Venkatesh et al., 2003). In this regard, evaluating student attitudes towards technology (Bostock, 1998) plays an important role in removing obstacles and facilitating the acquisition process to structure goals, approach to the task, and course content in various ways.
Starting from the idea that, in order to improve the quality of teaching, beliefs, values, attitudes and perceptions of teachers should be taken into account, considered as intervening factors facilitating or preventing the didactic action, a research has been designed to provide an explanation of the motivations and the sense of using technologies within teaching and learning processes in a context of training for primary and secondary school teachers and to explore skills, attitudes and beliefs that guide the use of ICTs in these realities to understand how these factors can affect the didactic use of the future teachers. Therefore, the present work first focused on analyzing those research models aimed at exploring the motivation and inhibitory factors of ICT use in teacher training, and to tackle the relationship between general attitudes towards ICT, attitudes of use, and their practical use (Jackson, Ervin, Gardner, & Schmitt, 2001), as well as frequency of use, perceived importance, and use abilities (Sorgo, Verckovnik, & Kocijancic, 2010).
On the other hand, it is well known that the lack of appropriate ICT teaching-related training is a barrier to using technology in the school. Teachers justify the lack of use of ICT in the school by adducing reasons such as lack of time, which is often linked to factors such as the perception of scarce competence in the use of technologies. One of the main reasons often stated for not to employ the technologies in the teaching is in fact the one that such use takes a long time to plan and practice with the ICT, and try to integrate them into lessons. Literature shows that there is a significant relationship between attitudes towards ICT and their use in the educational system (Jackson, Ervin, Gardner, & Schmitt, 2001).
On the other hand, it is well known that the lack of appropriate ICT teaching-related training is a barrier to using technology in the school. Teachers justify the lack of use of ICT in the school by adducing reasons such as lack of time, which is often linked to factors such as the perception of scarce competence in the use of technologies. One of the main reasons often stated by teachers for not to employ the technologies in the teaching is in fact that such use takes a long time to plan and practice with the ICT, and try to integrate them into lessons. Literature also shows that there is a significant relationship between attitudes towards ICT and their use in the educational system (Jackson, Ervin, Gardner, & Schmitt, 2001).