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How Teachers' Practices and Students' Attitudes towards Technology Affect Mathematics Achievement: Results and Insights from PISA 2012
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Tourón, Javier; Navarro-Asencio, Enrique; Lizasoain, Luis; López-González, Emelina; García-San Pedro, María José – Research Papers in Education, 2019
The present work seeks to deepen the impact of factors linked to the characteristics of teaching practices and students' attitudes towards the use of technology on their performance in mathematics in the process of teaching-learning in the Spanish context. In this sense, this study is a secondary analysis of the PISA 2012 data. Therefore, it is an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes, Educational Technology
Student Computer Attitudes, Experience and Perceptions about the Use of Two Software Applications in Building Engineering
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Chiner, Esther; Garcia-Vera, Victoria E. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to examine students' computer attitudes and experience, as well as students' perceptions about the use of two specific software applications (Google Drive Spreadsheets and Arquimedes) in the Building Engineering context. The relationships among these variables were also examined. Ninety-two students took part in this…
Descriptors: Computer Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Experience, Computer Software
Factors that Influence the Perceived Advantages and Relevance of Facebook as a Learning Tool: An Extension of the UTAUT
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Escobar-Rodríguez, Tomás; Carvajal-Trujillo, Elena; Monge-Lozano, Pedro – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2014
Social media technologies are becoming a fundamental component of education. This study extends the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) to identify factors that influence the perceived advantages and relevance of Facebook as a learning tool. The proposed model is based on previous models of UTAUT. Constructs from previous…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Networks, Models, Student Attitudes
User Acceptance of a Proposed Self-Evaluation and Continuous Assessment System
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Robles-Gómez, Antonio; Ros, Salvador; Hernández, Roberto; Tobarra, Llanos; Caminero, Agustin C.; Agudo, José M. – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
The WWW nowadays enables faculty to develop new Internet-based applications that can be used to enhance classroom instruction. There is a clear evolution towards the implementation of new service-oriented learning/teaching systems, which can be considered as the latest generation of Internet-based platforms. This work first describes a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Information Technology, Distance Education
Needs, Interests, and Limitations for the Promotion of Health and Exercise by a Web Site for Sighted and Blind Elderly People: A Qualitative Exploratory Study
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Gusi, Narcis; Prieto, Josue; Forte, David; Gomez, Ignacio; Gonzalez-Guerrero, Jose-Luis – Educational Gerontology, 2008
The purpose of this study was to identify needs, interests, and obstacles related to obtaining health education by means of a Web site for elderly people who do not use the Internet. A total of 34 participants were divided into five discussion groups, one of which was made up of blind people. An analysis of the semantic content of the…
Descriptors: Exercise, Semantics, Discussion Groups, Interests
Creating Computer Literate Teachers in a Foreign International School Via Individualized Instruction.
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Elwell, John – 1997
This practicum paper describes a program implemented at an international school in Spain. The program's objectives were to create positive attitudes concerning technology, increase the participants' computer knowledge and usage, and decrease the amount of time the school's computer coordinator spent solving computer related problems. The target…
Descriptors: Computer Anxiety, Computer Attitudes, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education