Self-Efficacy Expectations as a Predictor of Computer Use: A Look at Early Childhood Administrators.

Y

19

Administrator Attitudes; Adoption (Ideas); Computer Uses in Education; Correlation; Early Childhood Education; Educational Innovation; Microcomputers; Multiple Regression Analysis; Predictor Variables; Questionnaires; Self Concept; Self Efficacy; Sex Differences; Tables (Data); Use Studies

Discussion of self-efficacy as a predictor of acceptance of innovative practices focuses on a study of early childhood administrators in Illinois and their use of microcomputers for administrative and instructional purposes. Dependent and independent variables are described, including gender differences, attitudes about computer technology, and self-perception of innovativeness. (32 references) (LRW)

1989

EJ385757