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@article{194198,
        author = {Ms Ratna Singh and Dr Mukta Sinha},
        title = {Professional Development and Digital Literacy: Addressing Technological Challenges among Secondary School Teachers with Special Reference to Patna District},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {10},
        pages = {3324-3330},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=194198},
        abstract = {Digital literacy is a recent competence that has taken up a vital role in contemporary education especially to the teachers who are a key factor in incorporating technology in teaching learning process. Teachers in most developing areas, however, still struggle with technology in terms of insufficient training and digital resources. The research question of the current study is the following: How do professional development and access to digital tools contribute to the effectiveness of teaching and digital literacy among teachers in Patna district secondary schools? In particular, the study investigates how professional development and teaching effectiveness are related and how ICT training and access to digital resources affect the digital literacy of teachers. Mixed-method research design was used based on a structured questionnaire that was used on 148 teachers in secondary schools who were sampled by adopting stratified random sampling. The analysis of the data was conducted with the help of the descriptive statistics, correlation, and regression methods with the assistance of the SPSS 27. It can be found that there is a significant positive correlation between professional development and teaching effectiveness (r = 0.321, p < 0.05) and that access to digital resources and ICT training is a significant predictor of digital literacy in teaching. The study finds that sustained professional learning and enhanced technology infrastructure are essential to enhancing the digital skills of the teachers. But the study is restricted to one district and a rather small sample. Further researchers in the future should cover the wider geographical situations and consider other institutional and behavioral variables that affect digital literacy in education.},
        keywords = {Digital literacy, Professional development, ICT training, Teaching effectiveness, Secondary school teachers},
        month = {March},
        }