The Attitudes towards ICT and the Internet Usage of Teachers of Secondary Education: Case in TRNC

The research study examined the attitudes towards Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the internet usage of the teachers of secondary education in the case of TRNC. In this research, data adopted was gathered via both quantitative and qualitative method. For collecting data via quantitative method, a questionnaire instrument is distributed to the selected 252 teachers of secondary education. In addition, interview method was also adopted during the collection of data phase, by administering a purposive interview questions to 25 teachers in order to elicit useful responses regarding to their attitudes towards ICT and internet usage. Analysis was carried out on gathered data using ANOVA, t-test, standard deviations and percentages. Significant differences were also conducted on the variable factors based on the demographic characteristics of each participant. The findings of this study showed that, majority of the respondents hold a high response on their attitudes towards ICT and also have higher responses in their level of the internet usage. Moreover, it was also observed that there is no significant difference between the male and the female respondents' attitudes toward ICT tools and level of internet usage. It is worth to mentioned that, the analyzed data showed that no significant difference exists regarding to the teachers' attitudes towards ICT and their level of internet usage whether the teachers have attended any computer classes or not, participated to a computer certificate or not, their years of experiences and the purpose of their daily computer usage. Keywords: Information and Communication Technology, Internet usage, secondary education, teachers' attitudes