Abstract:
For several years, researchers and educators have focused on establishing and testing
models that could help in predicting the use of technology in education. The technology
acceptance model )TAM( developed by Davis )1989( is one of the commonly applied
models. This study was conducted in Bahrain to examine the structural relationship
of pre-service teachers’ attitudes to using technology. The hypothesized model
included perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, attitude towards technology
use, behavioural intention to use technology, facilitating conditions, and subjective
norm. Structural equation modelling analysis was conducted to test the hypothesized
relations between the variables in the model based on the data collected from 203
Bahraini pre-service teachers. The results indicated that attitude towards technology
use was significantly predicted by perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use.
Furthermore, perceived usefulness highly and significantly predicted behavioural
intention to use technology. Besides, perceived ease of use significantly predicted
perceived usefulness. This research has validated TAM on a sample of pre-service
teachers in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
