The Effect of Using a Home Computer on Students' Educational Use of IT.

Selwyn, Neil

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ERIC Number: EJ577862

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Publication Date: 1998

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The Effect of Using a Home Computer on Students' Educational Use of IT.

Selwyn, Neil

Computers & Education, v31 n2 p211-27 Sep 1998

Analysis of questionnaires/focus-group-interviews with students 16-19 years old to examine the nature and extent of students' domestic use of computers and the relationship with their use of information technology (IT) in schools/colleges. Suggest students with home computers have more positive attitudes toward computers but make little use of school/college-based IT. Discusses effect of gender on home IT use. (PEN)

Descriptors: College Students, Computer Attitudes, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, High School Students, High Schools, Higher Education, Information Technology, Sex Differences, Use Studies

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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