INSIGHTS INTO ICT CAPABILITY ON A TEACHER-MENTORED PGCE COURSE

The study examines the development of ICT capability by associate-trai nees on a postgraduate certificate of education course. The course inv olves the promotion of ICT use during three classroom placements by in -school teacher-mentors. Data for the study were collected by a survey of mentors, four surveys of associate-trainees, and by the collation of associate-trainees' profiles. The study considers the perceived eff ects upon the trainees development of ICT capability by the course gen erally and the examples of ICT use provided by teacher-mentors in part icular. The study indicates the beneficial effects upon the attitudes of trainees who observe ICT use by teacher-mentors on early school pla cements, and the coincidence of impoverished ICT use by teacher-mentor s on early school placements with restricted use of ICT by associate-t rainees on later placements. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.