A Study on Digital Divide and Self-Efficacy on the Internet among Outlying Islands Students

• Main Authors: Tzu-Hao Wu, 吳子豪
• Other Authors: Chia-Chun Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/66ab56

碩士 === 義守大學 === 資訊管理學系 === 105 === In the age of information, computers and networks have become very crucial in our life. Accordingly, the lack of relevant equipment or technical capability will become the disadvantaged in the technological era. Like the students of outlying islands in Taiwan, some of them have grown up in this environment for a long period of time, where digital learning and culture deprivation. The students obtain less stimulation from the external cultural influences; moreover, some of them are educated in the unfavorable learning environment like Grandparent-Raised or new resident-Raised circumstances. These learning settings for students stated above lead to more disadvantaged factors than Main Island of Taiwan. This study was based on questionnaires, and distributed to high school students as the subjects. After the process of literature reviews, the subjects aim in the vocational high school first grade students in Penghu. The purposes of the study were to evaluate the relationship among information access, digital content access, information literacy and the abilities using computer networks by high school students in Penghu and to find out the obstacles and difficulties in their digital learning. Major conclusion of the research showed that firstly, the digital divide influenced the self-efficacy on the Internet significantly. Secondly, in the performance in digital divide of high school students in Penghu, Information Literacy received the highest score; Digital Content Access came second. Personal factors of high school students , family-related factor and regional factors related to digital divide differ significantly; Thirdly, computer or a network access to students or not, the education level of their father’s, and the place of residence related to Internet self-efficacy differ significantly; Fourthly, only in new immigrant students factors or the education level of their mother’s had no significant difference related to Internet self-efficacy. Finally, According to the findings, several suggestions for relevant organizations and future research were proposed.