An empirical study of pupils' attitudes to computers and robots*

Abstract

A 64‐item Likert type instrument assessed seven scales of pupils' attitude toward computers and robots. Scale scores were investigated as functions of pupils' sex, Piagetian stage, chosen course of study, home use of a microcomputer and experience of computer‐assisted learning (CAL). More favourable attitudes were held by boys and by pupils choosing Computer Studies. Amongst pupils not choosing Computer Studies, those reporting experience of CAL or high use of a home microcomputer showed smaller declines of attitudes over a 1‐year period.

Advanced Manufacturing Technology and Shopfloor Work Organisation

“…This implicit multidimensionality has also emerged in research studies of the attitudes of school children (Page, Orr & Nash, 1981;Moore, 1985;Fife-Schaw et al, 1986), undergraduate students (Morrison, 1985;Breakwell, et al, 1986) and white-collar employees (Maculay, Fowler & Porteous, 1986 The above studies, however, were based on a very broad view of new technology, encompassing computer applications varying in nature from manufacturing systems through to office and commercial systems. Consequently, it can be assumed that the majority of respondents had little direct personal involvement with most of the technologies in question, and were thus responding largely on the basis of popular stereotypes.…”

Control and Interaction in Computerized Simulations

“…This view is partially supported by Moore (1985), who argues that ... the learning environment in which ... microcomputer activity takes place ... plays a decisive role in attitude formation. This view is partially supported by Moore (1985), who argues that ... the learning environment in which ... microcomputer activity takes place ... plays a decisive role in attitude formation.…”

Children's opinions of educational software

“…There have, it is true, been numerous attempts to construct, validate and apply various instruments designed to assess specific or general 'attitudes' (for example Moore, 1985). But since the seminal work of Malone (1980) in the USA, there has been insufficient attention to the putative motivational effects of computers and their classroom application.…”