Promotion focus, but not prevention focus of teachers and students matters when shifting towards technology-based instruction in schools.

ABSTRACT: Implementing technology-enhanced learning and teaching in schools causes major changes for both teachers and students. Research in other fields shows that individuals' regulatory orientation (i.e., promotion and prevention focus) predicts how people deal with such fundamental changes. Our research ties in with a school trial where classes were equipped with tablets, yielding a shift from predominantly analog to technology-enhanced learning and teaching. In this context, we investigated whether the regulatory orientation of teachers (N = 109) and students (N = 1,127) related to how they dealt with this change. As expected, teachers with a stronger promotion focus were more likely to perceive the changing teaching situation as a (positively connotated) challenge and to intend to use the tabl

SUBMITTER: Hoch E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11424645 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature