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Individual Characteristics Influencing Teachers' Class Use of Computers.
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van Braak, Johan – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2001
Describes a study of Belgian secondary school teachers that investigated the relationship between computer use in the classroom and influencing factors on an individual level. Considers age, gender, teaching a technology-related subject, computer attitudes, and innovativeness; and uses stepwise logistic regression to analyze the strongest…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Older Adults' Acquisition of Word Processing: The Contribution of Cognitive Abilities and Computer Anxiety.
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Dyck, Jennifer L.; Smither, Janan Al-Awar – Computers in Human Behavior, 1996
Describes a study that examined relationships between computer attitude, computer experience, gender, cognitive abilities, and the acquisition of word processing by older adults. Highlights include results from computer attitude questionnaires, spatial scanning, inductive and deductive reasoning as predictors of word processing knowledge, and the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Computer Anxiety, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Attitudes
Toward Understanding Student Differences in a Computer Skills Course.
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Houle, Philip A. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1996
Describes a study that examined various characteristics of undergraduate students enrolled in a computer skills course. Variables considered include gender, college major, high school computer courses, other prior computer experience, computer self-efficacy, computer attitude, computer anxiety, and cognitive style. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis, Computer Anxiety, Computer Attitudes