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Peer reviewedMassey, Tom K., Jr.; Engelbrecht, James W. – Computers and Education, 1987
This study of college students in business administration classes compares attitudes toward office computer use of students with typing or word processing skills to those of students without those skills. Results show typing and/or word processing skills were associated with greater degree of conceptual understanding of future office computer use.…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Comparative Analysis, Computer Literacy, Concept Formation
Download full textKirby, Elizabeth; Schick, Jo-Anne – 1998
This study examined recent (1995-1998) education students' exposure to a variety of instructional technologies prior to taking a required instructional technology course. The purpose was to identify how frequently students had used various technologies before entering the required course and to identify longitudinal changes and/or trends in…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedWoodrow, Janice E. J. – Computers and Education, 1991
Describes a study of student teachers that examined determinants of achievement in a computer literacy course. Correlations with measures of computer attitudes, perceived locus of control, gender, age, and prior word processing and computer experience are discussed, and the computer literacy model on which the analysis of data was based is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Computer Literacy, Correlation
The Influence of Programming Training on the Computer Literacy and Attitudes of Preservice Teachers.
Peer reviewedWoodrow, Janice E. J. – Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 1992
This pretest/posttest study measured the change in computer literacy and attitudes toward computers among 36 preservice teachers enrolled in an introductory computer training course that was focused on developing programing skills. Independent variables included age, gender, locus of control, final grade in the course, and prior experience in word…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Attitude Change, Computer Literacy
