ROLE OF SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER TRAINING IN USAGE OF TECHNOLOGY WITH PROFESSIONAL EXCELLENCE: STAKEHOLDERS PERSPECTIVES

Abstract

This study was conducted to find out the role of special education teacher training in usage of technology with professional excellence. The specific objectives of the research was (1) To investigate the role of special education teachers’ training in usage of technology with professional excellence (2) To investigate the opinion of teachers regarding the current status of assistive technology usage in special education institutes (3) To ascertain the difference between teachers’ opinion regarding the role of special education teachers’ training in usage of technology with professional excellence on the base of demographics i.e. gender, age, qualifications, district, no of in-service trainings, designation, school level, area of teaching, and teaching experience. To achieve the objectives, this study used quantitative cross sectional survey design.

All the male and female 489 special education teachers (137 male and 352 female) from Multan and DG Khan divisions were considered as population for this study. As the population of the special education teachers in Multan and DG Khan Divisions was small, therefore, the researcher used census sampling technique to select the all population as sample. A 52-item questionnaire, self-structured was used to investigate role of special education teacher training in usage of technology with professional excellence: stakeholders’ perspectives. Four hundred and eighty nine (489) questionnaires were distributed among the special education teachers and 455 finally were returned with response rate of 93.04%. The researcher used both the descriptive and inferential statistical techniques to analyze the collected data of 455 participants by using SPSS (25 Version). It was concluded on the base of findings that teacher training play vital role in usage of technology with professional excellence.