Abstract
Many educational institutions have been using lots of technologies in classrooms to increase the effectiveness of learning activities. In recent years, tablet PC (TPC)'s have been the primary of these technologies. Technology especially comes to exist in busy environments and gets even more important in the environments where students defined as "digital native" can use technology effectively. However, there have been no sufficient studies about the acceptance, readiness and use of tablet PC's in secondary schools. In this research, secondary school students' acceptance of tablet PC was examined with technology acceptance model, and readiness variable was also added. As a result of the research, it was found that secondary school students' acceptance level of tablet PC is explained at a good level. It was also found that readiness is an important variable for intention to use tablet PC. Also it was found that self-efficacy and anxiety in acceptance of tablet PC are important external variables.
Keywords: Technology acceptance, Tablet PC, Readiness, Anxiety, Self-efficacy
Copyright and license
Copyright © 2014 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
How to cite
Horzum, M., Öztürk, E., Bektaş, M., Güngören, Ö., & Çakır, Ö. (2014). Secondary School Students Tablet Computer Acceptance and Readiness: A Structural Equation Modelling. Education and Science, 39(176). https://doi.org/10.15390/EB.2014.3500