Students' attitudes toward computers: validation of a computer attitude scale for 16--19 education

  • Authors:
  • Neil Selwyn

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Computers & Education
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

There is a strong need for both educators and researchers to beaware of students' attitudes toward using and interacting withcomputers in 16-19 education (i.e. year levels 12-14)--but as yetlittle work has been carried out in this area. This articletherefore describes the development of an instrument for measuringthe attitudes toward computers of students aged 16-19 years.Initial item selection produced a pilot scale consisting of 49items which was administered to 266 students. Subsequent factoranalysis revealed four structurally independent attitude constructsand justified retention of 21 of the original items. The revisedscale was then administered to 87 Year 12-14 students for formalvalidation. The full instrument was found to have both a highinternal reliability coefficient (0.90) and test-retest reliability(0.93), and significant construct validity (P