THE INFLUENCE OF OWNERSHIP AND USING OF PC ON THE ATTITUDES TOWARD GEOGRAPHY

Abstract

The influence of information and communication technologies (ICT) is investigated in the present days on the attitudes toward different school subject by the relatively high number if investigators in the whole world. The research is focused on the finding of the influence of the ownership of ICT and using of ICT on the attitudes toward geography. The sample size was created by 351 czech lower secondary school pupils. The research tool was questionnaire, where demographic variables were ownership of PC, ownership of internet, gender, residence and class of pupils. Last demographic variable was how often pupils use ICT in the geography lessons. The attitudinal part was created by 23 5-point Likert type items. The reliability was determined by the using of Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. The construct validity was determined by the using of exploratory factor analysis. From the next analysis was used analysis of variance to find out the influence of using and ownership of ICT on the attitudes toward geography. Key words: attitudes toward geography, information and communication technologies, lower secondary school pupils, questionnaire.