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Computer Literacy Learning Emotions of ODL Teacher-Students
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Esterhuizen, Hendrik D.; Blignaut, A. Seugnet; Els, Christo J.; Ellis, Suria M. – Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2012
This paper addresses the affective human experiences in terms of the emotions of South African teacher-students while attaining computer competencies for teaching and learning, and for ODL. The full mixed method study investigated how computers contribute towards affective experiences of disadvantaged teacher-students. The purposive sample related…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Attitudes
Affect and Acceptability: Exploring Teachers' Technology-Related Risk Perceptions
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Howard, Sarah K. – Educational Media International, 2011
Educational change, such as technology integration, involves risk. Teachers are encouraged to "take risks", but what risks they are asked to take and how do they perceive these risks? Developing an understanding of teachers' technology-related risk perceptions can help explain their choices and behaviours. This paper presents a way to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Integration, Risk, Educational Change
Mathematics Teaching for the Future
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Pavlekovic, Margita, Ed.; Kolar-Begovic, Zdenka, Ed.; Kolar-Super, Ruzica, Ed. – Online Submission, 2013
The universities and faculties which educate teachers of mathematics for teaching pupils/students of any age group from pre-school age to higher education carefully monitor and compare valuable results of this research, detect the areas in which the mathematical achievements of pupils should be improved at the national level and propose the ways…
Descriptors: Operations Research, Geometric Concepts, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction
Students' Attitudes toward Computer Use in Slovakia
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Fancovicova, Jana; Prokop, Pavol – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2008
ICT has a very short history in Slovakia. A majority of Slovak schools accessed computers and internet only after 2000. Different financial support and schools' participation in various projects resulted in non-random distribution of computers across Slovakian elementary schools. We examined whether 1) attitudes toward computers could be affected…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Computer Attitudes, Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries
An Analysis of Attitudes toward Computer Networks and Internet Addiction.
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Tsai, Chin-Chung; Lin, Sunny S. J. – 1999
The purpose of this study was to explore the interplay between young people's attitudes toward computer networks and Internet addiction. After analyzing questionnaire responses of an initial sample of 615 Taiwanese high school students, 78 subjects, viewed as possible Internet addicts, were selected for further explorations. It was found that…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Affective Behavior, Attitude Measures, Computer Attitudes
Developing an Internet Attitude Scale for High School Students.
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Tsai, Chin-Chung; Lin, Sunny S. J.; Tsai, Meng-Jung – Computers & Education, 2001
Discussion of students' computer attitudes focuses on the development of an Internet attitude scale for Taiwanese high school students that considered gender differences and Internet experience. Includes four subscales: perceived usefulness; affection, including feelings and anxiety; perceived control; and behavior, including actual practice and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Attitudes, Foreign Countries