The Relative Importance of Computer anxiety and Attitude toward Computer in predicting University students' Computer achievement

Abstract

This study aimed at investigating the relationship between computer achievement and computer anxiety and attitude toward computer for university students. Also this study aimed at investigating the relative importance for each of these variables in predicting students' computer achievement. The sample consisted of (162) males and (138) females. The results indicated significant correlations between computer achievement and independent variables (computer anxiety and attitude toward computer). The results also indicated that the computer attitude explained most of the variance in all samples of the study and it worked differently for males and females, for Males this variable explained (36%) of the variance and explained only (25%) for females.

Key words: Computer Anxiety, Attitude towards computer, Achievement in computer course, Relative importance.