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A study of the factors that influence industrial education instructors to use computers

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  • The purposes of this study were to identify factors that influence industrial education teachers to use computers in their instruction and to explain the relationships among these factors. For the purposes of this study, the term "to use computers" meant use of computers in one or more of the following aspects: computer-assisted instruction, computer-managed instruction, a utility, and/or as course content. Based on a theory proposed by Fishbein and Ajzen, the subjects' intentions to use computers were regarded as indicators of actual use. This factor was in turn predicted by four other factors: attitude, subjective norm, belief, and normative belief. Two additional factors, computer literacy and accessibility, were suggested as influencing the belief and normative belief toward using computers. A causal model was presented to indicate these relationships. Questionnaires were mailed to 210 randomly selected Oregon secondary industrial education teachers during March of 1986 . The response rate was 80.1 percent. The internal consistency reliability coefficients of factors ranged from .82 to .92. Multiple regression and partial correlation were employed to verify the proposed causal model. It was concluded that industrial education teachers' intentions to use computers were influenced by their attitudes and their perceptions of the opinions of others (subjective norms) toward their using computers. Their attitudes were influenced by subjective norms and their beliefs toward using computers; and their subjective norms were influenced by related normative beliefs. Their beliefs and normative beliefs toward using computers were influenced by their knowledge of computers and the perception of accessibility to computer systems. Changing computer literacy, accessibility and opinions of significant others were found to be three means for encouraging industrial education teachers to use computers. In this study, the most influential significant others were educational experts. Computer hardware was perceived accessible only if located in the teachers' office, laboratory or classroom.
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