The Acceptability of Generative AI Tools of Selected Senior High School Teachers in Schools Divisions Office-Manila, Philippines

Abstract

This study focuses on the acceptability of selected Senior High School teachers on the use of generative AI tools, particularly Microsoft Bing Chat. A one-shot case study design was conducted on schools across six (6) districts in Manila Philippines. Both the voluntary response sampling method and Slovin’s formula were used to determine the sample from the population. This study involved 125 senior high school teachers, 54 or 43% of whom were males and 71 or 57% of whom were females from both private and public senior high schools in Manila City. The data were recorded first in an MS Excel program and later transferred to SPSS for analysis and visualization. The research instrument was administered online using Google Forms and then transferred to SPSS for data analysis and statistical treatment. It was revealed that all factors were statistically significant on the acceptability of generative AI tool by senior high school teachers. Furthermore, self-efficacy (SE) has the highest of 0.824 coefficient value followed by the factor perceived ease of use (PE) of 0.812 indicating their influence on Bing Chat behavioural intention of use (BI), leaving attitude (AT) the lowest among five (5) factors with 0.762 coefficient value. This implies that senior high teachers in Manila are much willing to abreast the idea of including generative AI tools in promoting their productivity in the workplace.