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A central and necessary task of teachers is the promotion of responsible conduct regarding the ethical use of ICT among their students. This is not something which is the exclusive responsibility of informatics and media education teachers, it needs to be carried out by all teachers. This point is discussed in the literature under the concept of ethical leadership behavior and can be seen as a dimension of ICT competence. Based on Çoklar (ICT ethical leadership scale (ICTELS): a study of reliability and validity on Turkish preservice teachers. Int J Human Sci 9(1): 82–101, 2012), a three-dimensional instrument for empirical assessment of teachers’ ICT responsibility has been developed: (a) Behavior towards unethical conduct with ICT, (b) Awakening and strengthening of ethical sensitivities in the conduct with ICT and (c) Cultural embedment of ethical ICT principles. As part of the IEA’s International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS), 659 Swiss secondary school teachers were asked about their ICT-responsibilities. The results of an exploratory factor analysis confirm the three-dimensional model of teachers’ ICT-responsibility. The findings of multiple regression models support the explanation of variance in all three areas of teachers’ ICT-responsibility. In particular, the aspects of teachers’ ICT self-efficacy and the collaboration of teachers in the field of ICT are significant.
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The internal consistency of the ICTELS scale (Information and Communication Technologies Ethical Leadership Scale), which consists of 24 items in total, lies at a Cronach’s alpha of .93. The study group that was formed for the construct validity of the scale consists of 305 pre-service teachers in the computer teaching departments in 9 different universities in Turkey in the 2008–2009 academic year. 60.7% of the students were male (185) and 39.3% were female (120).
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Cohen (1988) differentiates between the following effect sizes: small effect: d = .20; medium effect: d = .50; large effect: d = .80.
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Biedermann, H., Nagel, A. (2021). Teachers’ Professional Information and Communications Technology Responsibility: Further Development of a Scale to Measure the ICT Ethos of Teachers. In: Oser, F., Heinrichs, K., Bauer, J., Lovat, T. (eds) The International Handbook of Teacher Ethos. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73644-6_13
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