For today’s societies trying to cope with the
current globally increased competition, existence of individuals who can take
risks, solve problems and adopt changes an innovation has gained more
importance when compared to the past. This situation brings responsibility to
educational institutions for increasing the number of innovative individuals
and the qualifications of these individuals. Therefore, in the process of designing
and developing any kind of in-class activities which will contribute to innovativeness,
it is important to determine the technology usage characteristics that can be
used to define individuals who have high levels of innovativeness. The purpose
of the present study was to determine the variables related to technology which
will be used to discriminate between individuals who have high and low levels
of innovativeness. In the study, which was carried out using the
causal-comparative design, a logistic regression model was formed by using
technology-related variables, and which technology-related variables managed to
predict high level of innovativeness was tested. In the logistic model, the
technology budget (purchases, internet, and phone bills), technology ownership
(smart phones, tablets, laptops, personal computers, internet, websites,
blogs), technology renewal/update time (smart phones, computers), the number of
utilized internet applications and internet usage habits were analyzed as
predictors. The study was conducted with 244 university students from different
class grades at a state university in Turkey. The results revealed that among
the variables examined, only the variables of Internet usage habit, the number
of Internet applications used, blog ownership and the money spent on technology
use were significant predictors. In addition, the model in which these
variables were used was found to classify high and low levels of innovativeness
with accuracy of 71%. Implications are discussed.
Emerging technology Innovativeness Technology usage habits Preservice teachers
Birincil Dil | İngilizce |
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Bölüm | Makaleler |
Yazarlar | |
Yayımlanma Tarihi | 16 Temmuz 2018 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2018 |