Teacher beliefs and use of New Technologies of Information and Communication in professors from five elementary and secondary Chilean schools [Creencias docentes y uso de Nuevas Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación en profesores de cinco establecimientos chilenos de educación básica y media]

This study explore the relation between five types of teacher’s beliefs – constructivism, teacher self-efficacy, computer self-efficacy, self-efficacy for teaching with computers and beliefs about technology’s effectiveness on education – and the frequency and variety of use for computer’s ins- tructional purposes. A questionnaire was completed by 112 teachers from five Chilean schools. Using correlation analysis, it was found that compu- ter self-efficacy, self-efficacy for teaching with computers and beliefs about technology’s effectiveness on education show greater effects on frequency and variety of use of technologies for instructional purposes over teacher self-efficacy, and constructivism.