Assistant Professor, BLDEA's JSS College of Education, P. G. Dept. of Studies and Research Centre in Education, Vijayapur, Karnatak, India
Online published on 24 April, 2018.
In this study the use of ICTs Competency Framework for Teachers (ICT-CFT), to identify the strengths and weaknesses of ICT-CFT in evaluating ICT use in Colleges of Education and to improve the ICT-CFT to meet evaluation needs of ICTs in teacher education as it is input for the study. The competency framework for teachers was then used to evaluate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) used in pre-service teacher education that is B. Ed. to enable the investigator to identify its strengths and weaknesses. The framework is then improved towards a new framework that can be effectively used to evaluate information and communication technology use in pre-service teacher education. In this study the independent variables are derived from computer use within the institution, some other extraneous factor may have impact on the results. Those factors may be computer use at home, friends home and cyber or internet centers by the respondents. It is an attempt has been made to hold these extraneous variables, but it is very difficult to determine at what extent which affect the result.
