Pre-Service Teachers' Attitudes Toward ICT Use and ICT Integration Self-efficacy Beliefs

In this modern world, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is an effective teaching tool. To effectively incorporate technology into the curriculum, teachers need to have the necessary skills, a positive attitude towards technology, and an understanding of how to integrate it into their teaching. This study, thus, aimed to investigate the pre-service teachers' attitudes towards ICT use for teaching, scrutinize their ICT integration self-efficacy beliefs, and examine the association between the teachers' attitude towards ICT use and ICT integration self-efficacy beliefs. A descriptive survey design was adopted to guide the research process and achieve the objectives of study. Data was collected through a 5 Point-Likert scale questionnaire from eighty-nine pre-service teachers at Arba Minch University. A one-sample t-test and Pearson product-moment correlation statistics were employed for data analysis. The findings of the study indicate that the pre-service teachers had a favorable attitude to ICT use and low to moderate ICT integration self-efficacy beliefs. Keywords: Attitude to ICT use, ICT integration, pre-service teachers, self-efficacy beliefs