An investigation of office management and executive assistant lecturers’ attitudes towards information technology

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the attitudes of office management and executive assistant department lecturers working at a vocational school towards information technology and the extent to which they use technology tools in their life. Research population consists of 455 office management and executive assistant department lecturers working at a vocational school in Turkey and the sample consist of 100 lecturers who returned the survey. Data were collected with “Office Management and Executive Assistant Lecturers’ Attitudes Towards Information Technology Survey Scale”, which was published in “Computers in the Schools” journal in 2014 and named “Measuring Teacher Attitude Towards Instructional Technology: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of TAC and TAC”. The score of the reliability check, done with Cronbach Alpha, was 0.858 for the questionnaire. In order to ensure the accuracy of the data mixed methods research was used combining both quantitative and qualitative research methods. The results of the data analysis yielded positive findings regarding office management and executive assistant lecturers towards information technology and their use of the computer, e-mail, multi-media, world wide web (www) correlating with their positive attitudes (p<0.05)

Keywords

• Office management,information technology,technology usage,education technology

Büro yönetimi ve yönetici asistanlığı öğretim elemanlarının bilgi teknolojilerine olan tutumlarının belirlenmesine yönelik bir alan çalışması

Abstract

Bu çalışma, Meslek Yüksekokullarının Büro Yönetimi ve Yönetici Asistanlığı programında görev yapmakta olan öğretim elemanlarının bilgi teknolojilerine olan tutumlarını ve teknoloji kullanımlarını araştırmayı amaçlamaktadır. Araştırmanın evrenini Türkiye’de bulunan Meslek Yüksekokullarının Büro Yönetimi ve Yönetici Asistanlığı programında görev yapmakta olan 455 öğretim elemanı oluşturmaktadır. 455 öğretim elemanına anket verileri ulaştırılmış fakat yalnızca 100 öğretim elemanı anket verilerine geri dönüş yapığı için, araştırmanın örneklemini 100 öğretim elemanı oluşturmuştur. Bu araştırmanın verileri “Büro Yönetimi ve Yönetici Asistanlığı Öğretim Elemanlarının Bilgi Teknolojilerine Olan Tutumları Ölçeği” ile toplanmıştır. Ölçek 2014 yılında “Okullarda Bilgisayar: Disiplinlerarası Uygulama, Teori ve Uygulamalı Araştırma Dergisinde (Computers in the Schools: Journal of Practice, Theory and Applied Research)” yayınlanmış olan “Öğretmenlerin Öğretim (bilgi ve bilgisayar) Teknolojilerine Olan Tutumları: Doğrulayıcı Faktör Analizi (Measuring Teacher Attitudes Toward Instructional Technology: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the TAC and TAT)” makalesinden Türkçeye uyarlanılarak kullanılmıştır. Yapılan güvenilirlik analizi sonucunda cronbach alfa değeri 0.858 olarak bulunmuştur. Araştırmada nitel ve nicel yöntemlerin birarada kullanıldığı karma araştırma modeli kullanılmıştır. Bu araştırma sonucunda, Büro Yönetimi ve Yönetici Asistanlığı programında görev yapmakta olan öğretim elemanlarının bilgi teknolojilerine olan tutumlarının pozitif düzeyde olduğu ve tutumlarındaki bu pozitifliğin teknoloji kullanımlarıyla (bilgisayar kullanımı, internet kullanımı (www), e-mail kullanımı, çoklu-mesya kullanımı) parelellik gösterdiği saptanmıştır.

Keywords

• Büro yönetimi,bilgi teknolojileri,teknoloji kullanımı,eğitim teknolojileri

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