The relationship between the age of music teachers in Andalucía and the development of the IT program Escuela TIC 2.0

Abstract

The object of this paper was to discover if there was a relationship between the age of music teachers in compulsory secondary education (ESO) and the development of the Andalusian ICT school program Escuela TIC 2.0 [ICT School 2.0]. For this investigation a sample composed of 207 secondary education music teachers participated fulfilling a questionnaire on the different aspects of the program in connection to their area, such as their training in ICT, the technology available in the classrooms, the attitude towards ICT and competencies, digital resources and the ties between the families and the ICT School. This questionnaire was subjected both to a statistical validation of its principal components and at the same time to a validation by judges, and to reliability procedures using Cronbach’s Alpha and the Split-half methodology. A contingency analysis was applied and the results showed that the lower the age, the higher was the use and the evaluation of ICT, and vice versa. This study demonstrated that the age of music teachers in secondary schools in Andalusia is directly related to the determination to incorporate ICT and to the development of the Escuela TIC 2.0 program.