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Sheppard, Michael; Vibert, Conor – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
The technology acceptance model, and extensions of it, suggests a causal relationship between the perceived ease of use and usefulness of an information technology system. Using a dataset based on the responses from 247 undergraduate business students in relation to their use of an educational technology system, we compared competing structural…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Adoption (Ideas), Information Technology, Computer Attitudes
Aquino, Cesar A. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study represents a research validating the efficacy of Davis' Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) by pairing it with the Organizational Change Readiness Theory (OCRT) to develop another extension to the TAM, using the medical Laboratory Information Systems (LIS)--Electronic Health Records (EHR) interface as the medium. The TAM posits that it is…
Descriptors: Validity, Computer Attitudes, Information Technology, Organizational Change
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Berkowsky, Ronald W.; Cotton, Shelia R.; Yost, Elizabeth A.; Winstead, Vicki P. – Educational Gerontology, 2013
Much literature has been devoted to theoretical explanations of the learning processes of older adults and to the methods of teaching best utilized in older populations. However, there has been less focus on the education of older adults who reside in assisted and independent living communities (AICs), especially with regards to information and…
Descriptors: Computer Attitudes, Older Adults, Information Skills, Internet
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Lau, Siong-Hoe; Woods, Peter C. – Computers & Education, 2009
Prior empirical studies in the implementation of general information technologies (IT) have revealed that IT adoption and usage were determined by user beliefs and attitudes. However, little is known about how user beliefs and attitudes form and change over time. To address these issues, this paper reports a study of 481 inexperienced and 120…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Attitudes, Attitude Change, Longitudinal Studies
Christensen, Rhonda; Knezek, Gerald; Tyler-Wood, Tandra; Gibson, David – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
The purpose of this paper is to determine whether the changes that were found to occur pre- to post intervention in students' cognitive structures (Mills, 2013; Knezek, Christensen, Tyler-Wood, & Periathiruvadi, 2013) continued to persist two years later. Major findings were: a) semantic perception of science and STEM as a career became more…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Hands on Science, Science Instruction, Cognitive Processes
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Katic, Elvira K. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2008
Due to the variety of text forms that are being created as a result of improving information technologies, understandings of literacy must be broadened to include a variety of meaning-making modes in order to include different social, cultural, and material contexts. The following case study examined the conceptions of technology held by two…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Information Technology, Educational Technology
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Wong, Su Luan; Hanafi, Atan – Educational Technology & Society, 2007
This article presents a quantitative study on gender differences in attitudes toward the usage of Information Technology (IT) related tools and applications. The study was conducted at Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia, with 73 female and 29 male student teachers involved as participants. They were each presented with a questionnaire to relate…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Information Technology, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences