This study investigated the factors influencing pre-service teachers' digital teaching competence in China, focusing on technology attitudes, operations, ethics, and data literacy, and their mediating effects. A structural equation model (SEM) was used to analyze data from 244 pre-service teachers. Results showed that technology attitudes, technology ethics, and data literacy directly influenced digital teaching competence. Data literacy fully mediated the relationship between technology operations and digital teaching competence and partially mediated the relationships between technology attitudes/ethics and digital teaching competence. Technology ethics also partially mediated between technology attitudes and data literacy/digital teaching competence. These findings suggest that fostering positive technology attitudes, enhancing technology operations, and promoting technology ethics can improve pre-service teachers' data literacy and digital teaching competence.

Juan Chu, Ruyi Lin, Zihan Qin, Ruining Chen, Ligao Lou, Junfeng Yang