A comparative study of student's attitudes among IT and non-IT students in Information Technology education
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Author list: Sathapornvajana S., Watanapa B., Jungcharoensukying E.
Publisher: Hindawi
Publication year: 2014
Start page: 365
End page: 370
Number of pages: 6
ISBN: 9781479937042
ISSN: 0146-9428
eISSN: 1745-4557
Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)
Abstract
This paper proposes a two-fold study: (1) to investigate the factors affecting behavior intention of Thai students for choosing Information Technology (IT) program and (2) based on the findings in (1), to make comparison analyses on the IT students versus those of other professional programs. The web-based questionnaire was employed to collect data from a focused set of 200 1styear students, studying in public universities in Thailand. The result of (1), using factor analysis, points out that the factors affecting students' behavioral intention to choose IT program can be categorized into three dimensions: personal characteristics, social influence and IT intention. The result of statistical analyses, incl. ANOVA, show that IT students hold some distinctive values of attitudinal attributes when choosing the program of study. Based on the findings, IT schools are suggested common strategies to attract targeted students and adjust the program's attributes to suit the students. ฉ 2014 IEEE.
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IT students, non-IT program
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