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The Malaysian government hopes to introduce computers in schools on a wider scale. Success will be determined by teachers’ attitudes towards working with computers. A study was conducted to determine the computer attitudes among a group of teacher education students in Malaysia. The group consisted of 360 teacher education students at the Faculty of Education, University of Malaya. The Computer Attitude Scale (CAS) was used. The study also investigated relationships between selected independent variables (gender, frequency of computer use, length of computer use) and four types of computer attitudes (anxiety, confidence, liking and usefulness).
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- Computer Liking
- Computer Confidence
- American Educational Research Association
- Computer Attitude
- Teacher Training Programme
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Abas, Z.W. (1995). Attitudes towards using computers among Malaysian teacher education students. In: Tinsley, J.D., van Weert, T.J. (eds) World Conference on Computers in Education VI. WCCE 1995. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34844-5_16
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