Pixels and Pedagogy: MISTT’s Insights into Evolving Teacher Identities When Technology Comes to Play

The anticipated educational transformation through technology integration remains largely unrealised. Research reveals that technology’s impact on learning depends heavily on teachers’ skills, values, and dispositions - core elements of teacher identity. The study introduces the Multiple Contexts Influencing Student Teachers’ Identities with Technology (MISTT) instrument, designed to explore how student-teachers perceive their professional identities across four contexts - personal, university, internship school, and school system - with and without digital tools. Using semantic differential data from 621 student-teachers in a teacher preparation program, analysis uncovered correlations between general and digital teacher identity and revealed mismatches in teacher identity expectations which may hinder effective technology integration in education.