The attitudes of students towards the use of ICT during their studies

Lazar Stošić,Samson O. Fadiya

doi:10.21702/rpj.2017.1.9

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine attitudes of students towards the use of ICT during their studies. The survey included 285 students from Girne American University, Turkey. The sample consists of the students from first to fourth grade. The scale consists of 45 claims and is intended for determining students’ attitudes towards the use of ICT during their studies. Questionnaires were utilized to gather information on the attitudes of students towards the use of ICT during their studies. Information was broke down using SPSS statistical package (IBM SPS Statistics Version 20) and with Monte Carlo program for the parallel examination. The study established that students towards the utilization of ICT made the significant commitment to the students' academic performance. It is advanced that the discoveries of this study will be valuable to students to acquire knowledge into the ICT variables that influence students' scholastic execution and consequently enhance their academic performance.Results indicate that after one year of the intervention, there were statistically significant differences between the two groups only in sight vocabulary (at kindergarten and grade 1) and in alphabet (kindergarten). In all other areas of language development, there were no statistically significant differences between the achievement scores of the two groups. Results show that students appear to react to the prerequisites of their courses, programs, and universities. In all cases, there is a reasonable relationship between the students' view of handiness on certain ICT assets the critical quantities of understudies are quick to see ICT misused in the educating and learning process. There is positively scope for further research to examine how ICT interfaces crosswise over various areas and how the cross-connection application impacts its utilization.

Highlights

Students constitute an outstanding group inside this social framework, and their viewpoints have essential influence in encircling the movement that happens in school settings
There is a reasonable relationship between the students' view of handiness on certain ICT assets the critical quantities of understudies are quick to see ICT misused in the educating and learning process
There is positively scope for further research to examine how ICT interfaces crosswise over various areas and how the cross-connection application impacts its utilization

Summary

Introduction

Students constitute an outstanding group inside this social framework, and their viewpoints have essential influence in encircling the movement that happens in school settings. From an early age, young people are equipped for insightful and valuable investigation of their experience of learning in school and can remark on teaching methodologies and settings that are useful in their learning [5, 7]. Developed student, who are or may have been an invocation, are very prone to comprehend the significance of innovation for their future profession and will progressively hope to experience its utilization over all subjects in advanced education. Be that as it may, the locus of control lies somewhere else; accentuation is on learning exercises managed by the educator, metered by timetable imperatives, intended to meet educational modules criteria and accomplishment targets required utilization of ICTs. There are two aspects to the improvements in the use of ICT at colleges in Turkey. How one ought to coordinate ICT into a current up close, and the private course is in some cases hard to reply [1, 3]

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