Influencing Factors and Relationships between them to enhance the Usage of Digital Technologies by Primary and Mathematics Teachers

Integrating digital technologies in teaching and learning processes is a universal phenomenon which is often recommended by governments, universities, education faculties and schools in order to improve educational systems.  In spite of the capabilities of digital tools, their usage is new in classrooms and restricted to primary grades. Therefore, the present study with an exploratory sequential mixed method approach in two steps was conducted to extract influential factors that enhance the use of digital technologies. To do so, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 6 groups of from 3 to 5 primary and mathematics high school teachers, respectively. In addition, influencing factors were extracted, through the quantitative approach, survey method participating 457 people using path analysis, and the relationships amongst factors were examined and several recommendations were proposed. The main findings showed that school readiness contributed to teacher readiness and these two had statistical signification effect on student’s use of digital technologies.