BAŞER, Mustafa Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi, Turkey , DİNÇER, Serkan Çukurova Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi, Turkey

DEVELOPING SCALE FOR MESAURING STUDENTS ATTIDUDES TOWARD LINUX

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The aim of this research was to develop attitude scale to identify students’ attitudes toward Linux operating system. While developing the scale we started to adapt items in the Fennema and Sherman (1976) likert type scale which was previously adapted by other studies. The scale was administered to 237 students who previously took Linux course. Factor analysis was run to test validity of the scale and found that there were three sub-scales which were named as “Value of Linux”, “Linux Self Efficacy”, and “Outcome Expectations”. These three sub-scales explain 42.96% of the variance of the result. This is evidence that the scale has strong factor structure. Overall validity of the scale was found to be as 0.90. Based on the results it is found that students do not have positive attitude toward Linux. Low success on the courses dealing with Linux subject may be attributed to this result. It was found that there was no different between male and female students’ attitudes toward Linux.

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Unix , Linux , Attitude , Attitude Scale , Gender Difference

Mustafa Kemal University Journal Of Graduate School Of Social Sciences

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