学术资格

毕业生- 69%

研究生- 31%

使用电脑的经验

2年或更少- 30%。

3-5年- 30%。

超过5年- 40%。

工作经验

最多5年- 6.7%。

6-10年- 17.4%

11-20年- 41.0 %

克伦巴赫的alpha;

克伦巴赫的alpha;基于标准化项目

数量

0.786

0.821

23

PU1

0.773

PU2

0.784

PU3

0.783

PU4

0.77

PU5

0.778

PU6

0.775

PU7

0.778

PU8

0.771

PEOU1

0.774

PEOU2

0.774

PEOU3

0.787

PEOU5

0.768

PEOU5

0.773

PEOU6

0.801

PEOU7

0.782

PEOU8

0.765

ATT1

0.797

ATT2

0.767

ATT3

0.816

ATT4

0.772

ATT5

0.779

ATT6

0.763

ATT7

0.772

克伦巴赫的alpha;

克伦巴赫的alpha;基于标准化项目

数量

0.829

0.848

21

chi;²

DF

P

Normed chi;²

GFI

496.10

186

.000

2.667

.794

AGFI

NFI

TLI

CFI

SRMR

.744

.653

.7

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International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 – 8887)

Volume 42– No.2, March 2012

Using Technology Acceptance Model to assess teachersrsquo; attitude towards use of technology as teaching tool : A SEM Approach

Indu Nair

Ph.D. Scholar,

Dr. MGR Educational and

Research Institute, Chennai , India

ABSTRACT

To supplement the traditional teaching , in the last few years a steady growth of ICT applications and IT courseware development has taken place in India. Only a few studies have evaluated acceptance of such new technologies among teachers. An attempt is made to understand the attitude of mathematics teachers towards IT as an instructional tool in the State Schools of Kerala (India) , using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) framework. Results suggested that TAM being a robust model can be effectively used in this context too and a good fit for the proposed model for the data was found. The sample consisted of only the high school mathematics teachers, who seem to agree about the usefulness of computers in teaching mathematics, but were found not very conversant in using these as teaching tools. This factor leads to the finding of the study showing Teachersrsquo; Perceived Ease of Use having significant impact on their perception about Usefulness and Attitude towards use of IT in teaching.

Keywords :

Attitude towards use, SEM , AMOS, TAM, ICT use in education, Perceived ease of use , Perceived Usefulness

1. INTRODUCTION

Various studies conducted across the globe indicate many advantages of using IT tools in teaching and learning process , but in India the conviction to use technology in teaching by teachers seems to be an area not studied much. In the State of Kerala (in India), where this study is conducted , seeing the potential of new teaching and learning practices which can promote modern thinking and learning skills among students, a lot of initiatives are taken up by the State Govt. thru a project called IT@School . The state govt. schools in Kerala have had worldrsquo;s largest simultaneous deployment of Open Source Software based Information and Communication Technology educational initiatives claims the project website . Tremendous efforts are put in for the infrastructure upgradation of schools under the ICT scheme by way of setting up computer labs , providing Broadband internet connectivity , Content development for teachers and students , creating a School wiki for collaborative content development and providing a educational channel called ViCTERS targeting students, teachers and parents . There is no research required to see a whole hearted support and usage by student community for all

V. Mukunda Das

Director, CIMP-Patna ,

Patna, India

such initiatives but there seems to be a gap between these benefits and the actual use by teachers. In this context , to further investigate and predict the teacherrsquo;s acceptance of technology as a teaching tool , the researchers have attempted to use the most widely applied theoretical model in Information Systems field , the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). The study aims at evaluating the attitude of teachers towards use of technology as a teaching tool to enhance teaching and learning process.

1. TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL- A FRAMEWORK USED

Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) been used by the researchers as it the most widely researched theoretical model used to explain adoption of new systems and other information technologies. TAM , based on the Theory of Reasoned Action [Fishbein and Ajzen, 1980], is a simple model of IT adoption that claims that the Overall IT acceptance or utilization is based on usersrsquo; beliefs like (a) systemrsquo;s perceived usefulness (PU) and

1. systemsrsquo; perceived ease-of-use (PEOU) , which are the major impact factors for their (c) attitude towards use (ATT) and also (d) Behavioural Intentions to use (BI).

Thus usually TAM studies can have three hypotheses associated with these fundamental constructs - First, PEOU is expected to influence variables Attitude to use the system and PU . PEOU and PU taken as independent variables can both together influence Attitudes toward use chosen as Dependent Variable. [1]

Though a long literature review and discussion of TAM research is not required here , the data gathering and measurement tool descriptions are relevant . The Figure 1, given below illustrates the basic research model showing the causal linkages in TAM .