Attitude of students and teachers of the Department of Pediatrics towards information and communication technology (ICT)

• Autores: Reátegui Guzmán, Luis Américo, Izaguirre Sotomayor, Manuel Hernán, Mori Ramírez, Hallder, Castro Tamayo, Raquel Susana, Aguedo Sussan, Nattaly
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2015
• Institución: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.csi.unmsm:article/11236
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/anales/article/view/11236
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Information and communication technology – ICT; Attitude.; Tecnologías de la información y comunicación – TICs; actitud.

Introduction: Information and communication technology (ICT) has influence in education as it is an access tool to wealth of information. Though use in the teaching-learning process in educational institutions has not been significant. Objective: To determine attitude of students and teachers to use of ICT. Design: Non-experimental cross-sectional, correlational, quantitative study. Setting: Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Participants: Students and teachers. Interventions: Likert scale was implemented. Analysis of descriptive statistics, frequency distributions and central tendency measures were used. Results: Teachers attitude towards ICT was more favourable (86%) compared to students’ (76%). Conclusions: Teachers attitude to ICT was more favourable than students’. It is expected that this study will contribute to improvement in ICT-use decision, teachinglearning process and students’ attitude towards use of ICT.