Teacher Education Students’ Attitudes Toward Using Computers
- 1 June 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Research on Computing in Education
- Vol. 25 (4) , 487-497
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08886504.1993.10782068
Abstract
This paper reports on a research study conducted to determine the entry attitudes of students enrolling in educational computing classes. Key finaings included that students enter these classes with a wide range of experience using computers and that these previous experiences are the best predictors of student attitudes. A finding of particular importance to teacher educators was that these students generally agreed that the ability to use computers was a useful skill for living in today’s society and they had positive attitudes toward using computers; however, many did not see that they needed a “firm mastery” of computers for their future work.Keywords
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