SHS Web of Conferences (Jan 2021)
Psychological factors of ICT competence formation in part-time students of the specialty “Preschool education”
Abstract
The transience of time and the use of information and communication technology (ICT) have led to the urgent necessity – the formation of the educational process subjects’ ICT competence. In today’s educational sector in Ukraine and foreign countries, the studied phenomenon has acquired special significance. The goal: a) theoretical analysis of various aspects of the individual’s ICT competence formation, clarification of the essential content of the concept and offer its working definition; b) figuring out psychological factors of influence and their constructs on the ICT competence formation; determination of criteria, indexes and levels of the studied phenomenon formation; c) empirical study of the influence of psychological factors on the ICT competence formation in applicants for educational services of higher education institutions (part-time students of 2 Ukrainian universities). Conceptually psychological factors which have an influence on the ICT competence formation were characterized. The main criteria of ICT competence were offered, their indexes were defined and the description of levels of formation was given. According to the results of the empirical study the dependence of the influence of various psychological factors on the ICT competence formation in accordance with the pedagogical experience of 187 respondents was found out.