Adoption of innovations online tutoring apps on high school students

Abstract

This study aimed to discover the adoption of innovations online tutoring apps on high school students. This study used the diffusion theory of innovation with an innovation-decision process model approach with indicators of knowledge, persuasion, decision, implementation, and confirmation. The research was conducted in Pekanbaru City, Riau Province, Indonesia. Data collection used a survey method on 120 respondents from state and private senior high school students representing public schools, vocational schools, and religious schools. This study found that most of the respondents were users of online tutoring apps (71%). The decision of adoption has gone through the stages of knowledge, persuasion, decision, implementation, till confirmation, with a moderate to high score average. The score of using online tutoring apps to support learning activities and support achievement was relatively high. At the confirmation stage, the score of the desire to continue adopting the online tutoring apps was high (71%), it indicated that most of them will continue to adopt online tutoring apps. These findings illustrated that high school students are adopters of online tutoring apps innovation. As a post-millennial generation, they are an important generation for realizing Society 5.0 in Indonesia.