described using computers during their courses to prepare
reports, search the web, and present their work.
The science pre-service teachers who participated in the
study were made up of 24 females and 8 males. They had an
average age of 19.6 and an averageGPAof 2.92. Science preservice
teachers’ experience with the computer ranged from
2 to 11 years, with an average of 6.6. They used computers an
average of 9.1 h/week; similar to the mathematics pre-service
teachers, science pre-service teachers used computers to
search the internet and prepare and present their work.
A total of 38 literacy pre-service teachers (25 females,
13 males) participated in the study. Their ages averaged
20.7, and their GPAs had a mean of 2.93. They had been
using computers from 1 to 10 years (M = 5.4 years). The
demographic results showed that the average computer use
of literacy pre-service teachers was 9.7 h a week. During
their academic training, literacy teachers’ also used computers
to search the web and present their work.