Exploring factors influencing pre-service teacher’s digital teaching competence and the mediating effects of data literacy: empirical evidence from China

Juan Chu, Ruyi Lin, Zihan Qin, Ruining Chen, Ligao Lou () and Junfeng Yang ()
Additional contact information
Juan Chu: Hangzhou Normal University
Ruyi Lin: Hangzhou Normal University
Zihan Qin: Hangzhou Normal University
Ruining Chen: Hangzhou Normal University
Ligao Lou: Hangzhou Normal University
Junfeng Yang: Hangzhou Normal University

Palgrave Communications, 2023, vol. 10, issue 1, 1-11

Abstract: Abstract The development of pre-service teachers’ digital teaching competence is crucial for effectively infusing technology into teaching. With the growing importance of data in education, it is imperative to explore the influencing factors of digital teaching competence and the potential role of data literacy in facilitating competence. Thus, this study focused on investigating the factors influencing pre-service teachers’ digital teaching competence, namely technology attitudes, technology operations, technology ethics, and data literacy. Additionally, it examined the potential effect of data literacy on digital teaching competence. The study involved 244 Chinese pre-service teachers, and a Structural Equation Model (SEM) was created using SPSS and SmartPLS for analysis. The findings highlighted that technology attitudes, technology ethics, and data literacy directly influenced pre-service teachers’ digital teaching competence. Data literacy fully mediated the relationship between technology operations and digital teaching competence, and partially mediated the relationships between technology attitudes and digital teaching competence, as well as between technology ethics and digital teaching competence. Moreover, technology ethics acted as a partial mediator between technology attitudes and both digital teaching competence and data literacy. These results indicated that fostering positive technology attitudes, technology operations, and technology ethics could enhance pre-service teachers’ data literacy and improve their digital teaching competence.

Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1057/s41599-023-02016-y Abstract (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palcom:v:10:y:2023:i:1:d:10.1057_s41599-023-02016-y

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/palcomms/about

DOI: 10.1057/s41599-023-02016-y

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Palgrave Communications from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().