INVESTIGATION OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS' COMPUTER ATTITUDES IN TERMS OF CERTAIN VARIABLES

Abstract

The aim of this study is to research the role played by various factors (such as gender, the parents' level of education, level of income, the presence or not of a computer inside of the household, the type of school and class attended) in the attitudes towards computer of the students of different types of highschools. In order to do this, 340 pupils studying at the general high school, professional high school, scientific high school and Anatolia high school of the city of Hakkari were, during the course of the 2010-2011 school year, submitted to a Computer Attitude Scale test along with a form destined to gather personal information. The data thus collected was then analysed using the SPSS 15.0 program. Descriptive analysis, t-test and one-way variance analyses were also performed on the data. The results of the study demonstrate that, statistically speaking, the attitudes of students towards computer vary significantly according to the type of high school they attend. However, factors such as gender, the parents' level of education, the level of income, the presence of a computer in the household and the class attended were shown to not cause significant variation.