واكاوي سازه هاي موثر بر كاربرد فناوري اطلاعات (IT) توسط آموزشگران مراكز آموزشي علمي-كاربردي

Factors Affecting Information Technology Usage in by Trainers Applied Scientific Educational Institutes of Agriculture

The purpose of this study was to determine the factors effecting IT usage by instructors in applied scientific educational institutes of agriculture. The statistical population in this study was comprised of instructors of applied scientific centers of agricultural eduation. The method of sampling wasa Multi Random Steps one. Questionnaires were used for datacollection. Thevalidity of questionnaires was approved by an Agricultural Extension and Education Committee. For determining the reliability of questionnaires, 30 ones were tested. Cronbachʹs Alpha wascalculated and shown to be appropriate for different parts of the questionnaire. The datawere analyzed using SPSS software. The results indicated that, there was a significant and positive correlation between the number of instructors using IT with their level of English proficiency, computer and internet skills, environmental factors, context of using IT as well as technical factors. Results of regression analysis indicated that the effective factors in instructors application of IT were introduced in four variable steps including: skill rate in working with internet, context of using IT, skill rate working with computer andthe instructorsʹ proficiency inEnglish.These variables accounted for63/4 percent of variations in the pendent variable. The results of mean comparisions showed that there is variatien in IT usage among instructors of different majors, anddifferent employment standings.