The purpose of this study was to identify the nature of concerns of post-secondary business education teachers arising from the entry of word processing systems into the business education curriculum and assess the level of the concerns caused by the entry of word processing systems into the business education curriculum as measured by the Stages of Concern instrument. / The Stages of Concern instrument was mailed to a random sample of 136 Florida business education teachers in community colleges and vocational-technical schools in order to gather information relative to teacher concerns regarding adoption of word processing systems in the curriculum. / Results of the analyses indicated that the greatest concerns were those of a personal nature and those relating to collaboration. The most intense concerns according to the percentile distribution were Stage 1 (informational) at the 95th percentile and Stage 2 (personal) at the 70th percentile. / An analysis of the stages of concern was conducted on the variables age, sex, educational preparation, teaching experience, and user status. Statistical significance was found at the .05 level on age (individuals 20-39 years) and refocusing concern; educational preparation (individuals holding undergraduate degrees) and informational concerns; and sex (male respondents) and collaboration concerns. An association was also found between the novice user of word processing systems and personal and informational concerns; consequence and collaboration and the intermediate user. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-09, Section: A, page: 2736. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1984.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75385 |
| Contributors | JOHNSON, GWENDOLYN., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 153 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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