• 제목/요약/키워드: research on computer attitudes

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A Theoretical and Empirical Survey of Computer Attitudes

  • JUNG, Sei-Hwa
    • Educational Technology International
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    • 제9권2호
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    • pp.57-77
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    • 2008
  • For years, research on the impact of students' attitudes on learning has maintained a spot amongst the most highly discussed topics in education. Particularly, over the past decades, researchers have made great strides in better understanding attitudes toward computers. This article presents a critical review of the current state of research by re-examining how attitudes toward computers have been studied. First, the review introduces an overview of the theoretical foundations and the origins of research on attitudes toward computers. Then, the article summarizes previous literature and knowledge about computer attitudes and provides a review of major findings from research on the effects of some factors affecting the formation of computer attitudes. The discussion reveals a number of major issues and challenges, which include unclear characterization of computer attitudes, problems with measurement tools, and the lack of studies using methods other than brief questionnaires. The unsolved problems cause conflicting, inconsistent and inconclusive results and affect interpretation in the study of computer attitudes. The article also suggests the main recent and future directions of research on attitudes toward computers. Finally, it concludes by providing implications for educators.

소비자의 유행혁신성과 기술혁신성이 스마트 의류에 대한 태도와 구매의도에 미치는 영향 (Influences of Consumers' Fashion Innovativeness and Technological Innovativeness on Attitudes and Buying Intention toward Smart Clothing)

  • 강경영;진현정
    • 한국의류산업학회지
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    • 제9권1호
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    • pp.35-40
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    • 2007
  • Smart Clothing is digital wear progressed from wearable computer that the function of clothing is unified with that of a computer to extend human ability in everyday life. To study consumers' perception and responses toward the Smart Clothing, this study tested the influence of fashion innovativeness and technological innovativeness on attitudes and buying intention related to the Smart Clothing. Data were collected through a survey with 256 male and female adults in age from 18 to 45 year old. The results of Pearson correlation analysis revealed that there was not a positive relationship between fashion innovativeness and technological innovativeness. Multiple regression analysis indicated that fashion innovativeness was a significant predictor of attitudes and buying intention regarding the Smart Clothing. In addition, respondents were classified into four groups according to the scores of their fashion innovativenss and technological innovativeness. A series of ANOVA and Duncan test were used to determine if significant differences existed among four groups. The group having high level of innovativeness on both fashion and technology had the most positive attitudes toward smart clothing. The individuals having cognitive experiences of the Smart Clothing had higher level of fashion innovativeness and more positive attitudes to it. Based on these findings, recommendations for the developer of Smart Clothing and future research are offered.

정보기술 수용 후 주관적 지각 형성: 사용 경험에서 형성된 습관, 기대일치, 자기효능감의 역할 (What happens after IT adoption?: Role of habits, confirmation, and computer self-efficacy formed by the experiences of use)

  • 김용영;오상조;안중호;장정주
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • 제18권1호
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    • pp.25-51
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    • 2008
  • Researchers have been continuously interested in the adoption of information technology (IT) since it is of great importance to the information systems success and it is also an important stage to the success. Adoption alone, however, does not ensure information systems success because it does not necessarily lead to achieving organizational or individual objectives. When an organization or an individual decide to adopt certain information technologies, they have objectives to accomplish by using those technologies. Adoption itself is not the ultimate goal. The period after adoption is when users continue to use IT and intended objectives can be accomplished. Therefore, continued IT use in the post-adoption period accounts more for the accomplishment of the objectives and thus information systems success. Previous studies also suggest that continued IT use in the post-adoption period is one of the important factors to improve long-term productivity. Despite the importance there are few empirical studies focusing on the user behavior of continued IT use in the post-adoption period. User behavior in the post-adoption period is different from that in the pre-adoption period. According to the technology acceptance model, which explains well about the IT adoption, users decide to adopt IT assessing the usefulness and the ease of use. After adoption, users are exposed to new experiences and they shape new beliefs different from the thoughts they had before. Users come to make decisions based on their experiences of IT use whether they will continue to use it or not. Most theories about the user behaviors in the pre-adoption period are limited in describing them after adoption since they do not consider user's experiences of using the adopted IT and the beliefs formed by those experiences. Therefore, in this study, we explore user's experiences and beliefs in the post-adoption period and examine how they affect user's intention to continue to use IT. Through deep literature reviews on the construction of subjective beliefs by experiences, we draw three meaningful constructs which theoretically have great impacts on the continued use of IT: perceived habit, confirmation, and computer self-efficacy. Then, we examine the role of the subjective beliefs on the cognitive/affective attitudes and intention to continue to use that IT. We set up a research model and conducted survey research. Since IT use implies interactions among a user, IT, and a task, we carefully selected the sample of users using same/similar IT to perform same/similar tasks, to exclude unwanted influences of other factors than subjective beliefs on the IT use. We also considered that the sample of users were able to make decisions to continue to use IT volitionally or at least quasi-volitionally. For each construct, we used measurement items recognized for reliability and widely used in the previous research. We slightly modified some items proper to the research context and a pilot test was carried out for forty users of a portal service in a university. We performed a full-scale survey after verifying the reliability of the measurement. The results show that the intention to continue to use IT is strongly influenced by cognitive/affective attitudes, perceived habits, and computer self-efficacy. Confirmation affects the intention to continue indirectly through cognitive/affective attitudes. All the constructs representing the subjective beliefs built by the experiences of IT use have direct and/or indirect impacts on the intention of users. The results also show that the attitudes in the post-adoption period are formed, at least partly, by the experiences of IT use and newly shaped beliefs after adoption. The findings suggest that subjective beliefs built by the experiences have deep impacts on the continued use. The results of the study signify that while experiencing IT in the post-adoption period users form new beliefs, attitudes, and intentions which may be different from those of the pre-adoption period. The results of this study partly demonstrate that the beliefs shaped by the behaviors, those are the experiences of IT use, influence users' attitudes and intention. The results also suggest that behaviors (experiences) also change attitudes while attitudes shape behaviors. If we combine the findings of this study with the results of the previous research on IT adoption, we can propose a cycle of IT adoption and use where behavior shapes attitude, the attitude forms new behavior, and that behavior shapes new attitude. Different from the previous research, the study focused on the user experience after IT adoption and empirically demonstrated the strong influence of the subjective beliefs formed in the post-adoption period on the continued use. This partly confirms the differences between attitudes in the pre-adoption and in the post-adoption period. Users continuously change their attitudes and intentions while experiencing (using) IT. Therefore, to make users adopt IT and to make them use IT after adoption is a different problem. To encourage users to use IT after adoption, experiential variables such as perceived habit, confirmation, and computer self-efficacy should be managed properly.

Impact of Environmental Attitudes on the Judgment of Non-Professional Investors in Saudi Arabia

  • Abdullah, Pr.;Alutaibi, T.
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • 제21권2호
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    • pp.93-102
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    • 2021
  • This paper aims to study the influence of environmental attitudes on the choice of non-professional investors. It highlights the role of environmental performance assurance on investment judgments. This choice is due to the motivation and importance that investors place on the disclosure of environmental information. The main purpose of the research is focused on the empirical approach justified by the use of a questionnaire addressed to 200 non-professional investors. The results show that attitudes towards the environment do not correlate with the importance that gives this category of investors to the environmental information.. Subsequently, the results prove that the disclosure of an environmental assurance report has a positive impact on investment judgments independently of their appreciation of the environmental information concerning that of financial order.

Mainstreaming of Students with Intellectual Disability in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Special Education Teachers' Perceptions

  • Bagadood, Nizar H.;Sulaimani, Mona F.
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • 제22권3호
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    • pp.183-188
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    • 2022
  • Educators have been making strides in the research into and practices supporting the policy of mainstreaming students with disability. A move towards including students with intellectual disability in community schools with all the other students can be seen in many countries' education systems, including that of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The 'rights of the child' has been the main argument put forward by advocates of this policy in an attempt to move from the medical to the social model. This study argues that, although mainstreaming can be viewed as a positive trend toward effective education, its implementation remains somewhat problematic. It is believed that more investigative research into professionals' attitudes is needed to improve service provision and inform the administration of mainstreaming practices. The attitudes of special education teachers on the policy of mainstreaming are examined and emerging key themes discussed. Furthermore, challenges that continue to inhibit mainstreaming practices in Saudi Arabia are identified.

교사의 개인배경 및 이해수준이 스마트교육 태도에 미치는 영향 (Effects of Teachers' Personal Backgrounds and Understandings on Attitudes towards "Smart Education")

  • 박성열;김재훈;임걸
    • 컴퓨터교육학회논문지
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    • 제15권5호
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    • pp.43-53
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    • 2012
  • 본 연구는 정부주도하에 2015년부터 본격적으로 수행될 스마트교육 계획에 비추어 볼 때, 교육의 주요한 주체인 교사관련 변인들에 대한 선행연구의 미비 및 연구의 필요성을 인식함으로써 수행되었다. 이에 따라 2012년 현재 시점에서 교사들의 성별, 연령, 기기 보유여부 등의 개인변인과 스마트교육 이해수준이 스마트교육에 대한 태도에 미치는 영향에 대해 확인하였다. 연구대상으로는 서울 및 경기권 중등교사가 참여하였으며, 최종적으로 264부의 설문결과가 분석되었다. 연구결과 교사들의 전반적인 스마트교육 이해수준은 상당히 낮은 편이었으며, 태도 역시 비교적 긍정적이지 않았다. 스마트교육 태도에 미치는 영향을 분석한 결과로는 이해수준을 비롯하여 연령이 주요한 변인으로 확인된 한편, 교사의 성별 및 기기 보유여부는 유의미한 변인이 아니었다. 이 같은 결과에 기반하여 향후 스마트교육의 성공적 수행을 위해 교사들의 스마트교육 이해 및 태도수준의 향상, 교사의 연령을 고려한 탄력적 교육 등이 요구되었으며, 학생 및 학부모 등으로 확대된 스마트교육 관련 후속 연구의 필요성이 제기되었다.

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Computer Assisted Instruction 성교육과 강의식 성교육이 여중생의 성지식과 성태도에 미치는 효과비교 (A Comparative Study on the Effects of Sex Education between Computer Assisted Instruction and Lecture: Focused on Middle School Female Students)

  • 김한나;김정남;박경민
    • 보건교육건강증진학회지
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    • 제22권2호
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    • pp.1-17
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    • 2005
  • Objectives: The propose of this study was to compare the effects of sex education methods between CAI and Lecture on to improve sex related knowledge and attitudes of middle school female students. Methods: The subjects were selected from one of the Kyoungbuk province's girls middle school. Out of 9 classes of first grade, 2 classes were selected as experimental group and 2 classes were selected as control group. This research was conducted from September 1st to October 1st, 2004. 8 lessons of CAI sex education program was given to experimental group and 8 lessons of sex education lectures was given to control group. To measure the level of sex related knowledge and attitudes of the subjects, the researcher used the modified Kye's, Sung's and Jung's sex related knowledge and attitudes scale. SPSS/Win 10.0 program was used to analyse the data along with Frequency, Percentage, $x^2$-test, t-test, and paired t-test. Results: 1. Sex related knowledge score in the experimental group educated by CAI program will be different from the control group using lecture education(t=3.49, p=0.001). 2. Sex related attitudes score in the experimental group educated by CAI will be different from the control group using lecture education(t=2.94, p=0.004). Conclusions: From the above results, CAI sex education program showed as more effective than lecture method to improve sex related knowledge and attitudes.

컴퓨터교과에서의 효율적인 수행평가 적용 방안 (The Method of Applying Performance Assessment to Computer Education)

  • 안베티;김현철;이원규
    • 컴퓨터교육학회논문지
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    • 제4권1호
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    • pp.35-42
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    • 2001
  • 컴퓨터 교육은 지식의 이해 정도뿐만 아니라 사고력, 판단력, 문제 해결 능력 등이 강조되기 때문에 실천적인 태도와 기술적인 활동의 체험이 중요시되므로 학습자에 대한 평가는 학습내용의 기술적인 실기 능력, 적용 능력, 적극적인 태도 등이 균형있게 평가되어야 한다. 따라서 본 연구는 컴퓨터교육에서 지향해야 할 평가의 방향으로 문제해결 과정 중심의 평가와 학생 참여적인 객관적인 평가를 제시하고 그것을 평가할 수 있는 방법을 제안하였다. 그리고 평가 실험을 통하여 제안된 방법이 기존의 수행평가 방법으로는 얻을 수 없었던 학생의 수행능력을 평가할 수 있음을 보였다.

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한국 부엌의 작업대와 수납장의 표준 칫수 설정을 위한 연구 III -소비자의 의식 및반응조사와 실측조사를 중심으로 - (Standardization of measurements for Korean kitchen work centers and cabinets for future design criteria III - Survey of Consumer Attitudes and Actual Measurements -)

  • 윤복자
    • 대한가정학회지
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    • 제23권3호
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    • pp.103-135
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    • 1985
  • This is the third consecutive study on the 'Standardization of Measurements for Korean Kitchen work cneters and cabinets for future design criteria I, II'. The present research consisted of two studies 1) the examination of attitudes and responses of consumers toward kitchen work centers and cabinets, and 2) comparision of actual measurements with the models suggested in study II. Homemakers of upper and middle class residing in Seoul were selected for the survey: 1,096 survey questionaires on consumer attitudes and 95 questionnaires on actual measurements were used. Data were analyzed using the SAS computer package.

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Influence of Capacity Building and Attitude to Work of librarians in Edo State Public Libraries, Nigeria

  • Omigie, Christopher Agbeniaru;Bosah, Gabriel Ejiobi
    • International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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    • 제10권1호
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    • pp.35-45
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    • 2020
  • This study is on capacity building and attitude to work of librarians in Edo State public libraries, Nigeria. Investigation was on the capacity building programs in the Edo State public libraries, the levels of librarians' awareness and participation in the programs, methods of building the capacity programs, influence on the librarians' attitudes to work and factors militating against the programs. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study and the entire population of 23 librarians were used. Results indicate that the capacity building programs in the library include computer literacy skills, online public access catalogue (OPAC), Internet collection management and general trends in librarianship. The methods used in building the capacity programs in the library include conferences, workshops/seminars, on-the-job and internally organized courses. Respondents indicated very low level of participation in the programs and a negative influence of the programs on their attitudes to work. Various problems were identified as militating against the capacity building programs and solutions were suggested.