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With the expansion of computer technology, it is important
to prepare individuals for success in our increasingly
computerized society. Therefore,factors that impact decisions
regarding attitude and literacy of computer should be expored.
Several factors should be considered: (1) individual
characteristics, (2) computer experience, (3) computer resource,
(4) cognitiveneed, (5) mathematics anxiety, and (6) mathematics
achievement. The purposes of this study were : (1) To find
out the situation of information education in junior
secondaryand primary school at present; (2) To find out the
situation of the computer attitude and literacy in junior
secondary and primary school students at present; (3) To
examine the relationship and effects toward computer attitudes
and literacy of many factors. 1251 junior secondary and 1201
primary school students were measured by (1)individual
characteristics and computer experience questionnare, (2)
Cognitive Need Scale , (3) Mathematics Anxiety Scale , (4)
Computer Attitude Scale, and(5) Computer Literacy Test. The
mainly statistical methods are chi-square, pearson product
moment correlation, t-test, canonical correlation analysis,
multiple(stepwise) regression analysis and path analysis.
The results of the analysis of data indicated the following :
(1) There were significant sex and school level differences of
attitude and literacy toward computer. Boys were better than
girls. Primary school students were better than junior secondary
school; (2) There were significant correlations between computer
experience, computer resource, cognitive need, mathematics
anxiety, mathematics achievement, and computer attitude; (3)
There were significant correlations between computer
experience, computer resource, cognitive need, mathematics
anxiety, mathematics achievement, and computer literacy; (4)
Computer experience, computer resourse, cognitive need and
computer attitude were significant predictors for computer
literacy. Computer attitude was the best significant predictor.
Recommendations were made for information education , school ,
family,educational organization and future additional research ,
to improve the attitude and literacy toward computer of junior
secondary and primary school students.
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