Abstract
The primary aim of this study was two-fold: 1) to identify information communication technology (ICT) acceptance of kindergarten parents that influence parents’ deliberative belief and empowerment by applying the socio-technical systems theory as theoretical framework; and 2) to examine the mediated effect of deliberative belief between ICT acceptance and empowerment. A total of 949 elementary school and kindergarten parents in Taiwan were asked to complete questionnaire about their ICT acceptance, deliberative belief, and empowerment. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was utilized to evaluate the validity of structural/ latent model. The results revealed that deliberative belief, mediate the relationship between the ICT acceptance and empowerment among parents. ICT acceptance had effect on deliberative belief, and deliberative belief had the effects on empowerment. According to this information, it is recommended that school administrators should encourage parents and teachers together to improve and enhance their deliberative belief, ICT acceptance that may lead to more positive parents’ empowerment in school governance.
Highlights
Information and communication technology (ICT) has become tools of a majority of businesses in order for them to maintain a competitive edge
The main purpose of this study was to examine the effects of ICT acceptance and deliberative belief on parent empowerment
We focused on only the most uncommonly used contributing factor deliberative belief in the literature as mediator
Summary
Information and communication technology (ICT) has become tools of a majority of businesses in order for them to maintain a competitive edge. Because ICT has to be accepted by its intended users to be successful, many ICT acceptance models were proposed for further research. There is Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), generally considered as the most influential and plays a signified issue in the area of information systems. With the greater innovation and advances of ICT, many school shaved taken the opportunity to apply technology in raising the student academic success, so the rapid changes in ICT products have influenced the development of technology used in the educational field. Students' ICT competencies were the best predictor of their technology use (Charles & Yidana, 2015)
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