Acceptance of verificator by information science students

Author

Orehovacki, Tihomir ; Radosevic, Danijel ; Konecki, Mladen

Author_Institution

Fac. of Organ. & Inf., Univ. of Zagreb, Varazdin, Croatia

fYear

2012

fDate

25-28 June 2012

Firstpage

223

Lastpage

230

Abstract

Verificator is an educational tool for teaching introductory programming at the university level. This study integrates programming anxiety and computer self-efficacy into the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) with an aim to examine the factors that affect the acceptance of Verificator by information science students. Data were collected using an online survey questionnaire while the hypothesized relationships in the research model were tested employing the variance-based Partial Least Squares (PLS) technique. Theoretical and practical implications as well as future research directions are presented and discussed.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer science education; least squares approximations; TAM; Verificator; educational tool; information science students; introductory programming; technology acceptance model; variance-based partial least squares technique; Computational modeling; Computers; Programming profession; Reliability; Syntactics; Testing; Educational Tool; Partial Least Squares (PLS); Teaching Programming; Technology Acceptance Model (TAM); Verificator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology Interfaces (ITI), Proceedings of the ITI 2012 34th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cavtat, Dubrovnik

ISSN

1334-2762

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1629-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.2498/iti.2012.0451

Filename

6308009