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A STUDY OF ATTITUDE OF COLLEGE STUDENTS TOWARDS COMPUTER EDUCATION

    1 Author(s):  MS. PRATIBHA

Vol -  7, Issue- 9 ,         Page(s) : 5 - 9  (2016 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

The revolution in education will alter not just the lives of students, but the entirety of modern society; computer is an eminent innovation of twentieth century. Attitude and interest of use computer develop more positive attitude towards computer use for own services. The Main objective of the study was examined the attitude of college students towards computer education. The hypothesis was formulated that the attitude of college students having optional computers is significantly higher than those not having optional computers, for this examine 800 students were to be selected from undergraduate college students for survey. Computer Attitude Scale (2012) developed by Tahira Khatoon & Manika Sharma was used for data collection. Mean, S.D. and t-test statistical techniques were used for interpretation and analysis of data. Major findings: There is significant difference in computer attitude’s all dimensions having optional computer subject and having not optional computer subject students. As shown mean value of both group have given; optional computer subject students scored more than having not optional computer subject students of college level, it indicated that optional computer subject students have more computer anxiety compare to having not optional computer subject.

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