Development of a Technology Readiness Scale for Junior High School Teacher

• Main Authors: Chih-Hsun Huang, 黃志燻
• Other Authors: Hung-Jen Yang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/91023406063828799734

碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 工業科技教育學系 === 91 === Since lead the high-Tech knowledge and technology in, the environment, society, economy and individual are impacted. Do People prepare themselves well to face the challenge of new technology? The purpose of the study was to development of a technology readiness scale for junior high school teacher in Taiwan, R.OC. The methodology of this study included a literature review and standard process of scale’s development. According to the literature review, the definition of technology readiness is the preparing status on psychology before he/she engaged in technology action. The draft of high-tech measuring scale was developed based on the standard data collected from junior high school. The result of this study demonstrated that technology readiness scale consist of three aspects of technology readiness, they are technology procedure readiness, technology knowledge readiness and technology context readiness. The main finding of the study were as follows: A. After modified by LISREL, the technology readiness scale owns high reliability and validity. B. The technology readiness scale has three functions on classing the technology readiness status, predicting the behavior potential, measuring self-efficacy of technology action. C. Technology knowledge readiness is a key in technology readiness. It has high correlation in technology procedure readiness and technology context readiness.