Predicting the secondary school students’ intention to use e-learning technologies

BAHÇEKAPILI E.

RESEARCH IN LEARNING TECHNOLOGY, cilt.31, 2023 (ESCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 31
  • Basım Tarihi: 2023
  • Doi Numarası: 10.25304/rlt.v31.2881
  • Dergi Adı: RESEARCH IN LEARNING TECHNOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, EBSCO Education Source, Educational research abstracts (ERA), ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Psycinfo, Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: e-learning, TAM, technology acceptance, perceived enjoyment, second-ary school students, K-12, ACCEPTANCE MODEL 3, BEHAVIORAL INTENTION, PRESERVICE TEACHERS, SELF-EFFICACY, ADOPTION, INDONESIA
  • Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Technology acceptance studies are interesting because they are practical and theo-retically helpful in explaining the adoption and intention to use a particular tech-nology. There is a large amount of research on e-learning and other technologies in the literature, but there is limited evidence to explain why secondary school stu-dents' intention to use e-learning. This study explains secondary school students' intentions to use e-learning with an extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). TAM is a useful theory to explain how people adopt new technologies in different fields. Data were collected from 2739 secondary school students in Tur-key (Mage = 11.95). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modelling (SEM) were used to test the conceptual model. The results are consis-tent with the original TAM model. The most critical variable affecting secondary school students' intention to use e-learning technologies is enjoyment. The results show that there may be differences in the intention to use e-learning technologies for secondary school students in different cultures and contexts.