NDLI: Changes in the basic ICT skills of freshmen between 2005 and 2009: Who’s catching up and who’s still behind?

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Author	Wit, Kurt Heerwegh, Dirk Verhoeven, Jef C.
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	In the last decade, ICT use has expanded enormously in most Western countries. In line with this development, we hypothesised that freshmen at university would not only have mastered more ICT skills, but would also use computers more often than their counterparts of 5 years previously. To compare students’ opinions and behaviour between 2005 and 2009, responses to two online questionnaires (N = 714 in 2005 and N = 1529 in 2009) offered at a large university were compared. The main variables of the Technology Acceptance Model (as well as facilitating factors, study motivation and some contextual variables) were used as predictors to explore the possible changes between 2005 and 2009 in the mastering of 19 ICT skills, and the frequency of the use of computers for six different tasks. The results of the study show that freshmen became more proficient in some ICT skills, while proficiency in other skills did not change or even dropped. Gender is still an important factor to predict ICT skills and the frequency of using computers, but it is shown that for some skills female students have caught up with their male counterparts.
Starting Page	205
Ending Page	231
Page Count	27
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13602357
Journal	Education and Information Technologies
Volume Number	17
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15737608
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2011-03-29
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	ICT skills Computer use Freshmen Universities Change of computer use Change of ICT skills Technology acceptance model TAM Survey Longitudinal analysis Computer Application in Social and Behavioral Sciences User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction Education (general) Educational Technology Computers and Education Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Library and Information Sciences E-learning

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