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Peer reviewedKay, Robin H. – Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 1989
Describes study that compared differences in computer attitudes, degree of computer literacy, locus of control, and commitment to computers between male and female student teachers at the University of Toronto. A literature review of previous studies on gender differences is presented, and the statistical methodology of this study is detailed. (31…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Literacy, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Download full textBohlin, Roy M. – 1992
This investigation of the relationship of computer anxiety reduction to instructional strategies and learner characteristics used multiple repeated measures in a 2x2x2 quasi experimental design with arousal-seeking tendency, coping style, sex, computer skill mastery, and locus of control as the independent variables. Discrete dependent variables…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Anxiety, Attitude Change, Computer Literacy
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
Peer reviewedGriswold, Philip A. – AEDS Journal, 1985
This study evaluated the degree to which college major (education or business) and student individual differences (sex, age, mathematics ability, and locus of control) are related to attitudes about computers. Results indicate education majors have less favorable attitudes about computers than business majors even with individual differences taken…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Business Administration Education, Comparative Analysis, Computer Literacy
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
Northern Illinois Univ., De Kalb. Coll. of Continuing Education. – 1984
These proceedings consist of 28 presentations. They include, in alphabetical order by author, "Data Collection Methods Used to Determine Training Needs of the Organization and the Adult Learner in Business and Industry" (Bart P. Beaudin), "Sex and the Split Brain: Does the Sex of the Mind Matter?" (Anne A. Bowbeer),…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Agency Cooperation
