Effective Use of Computer Aided Instruction in Secondary Schools: A Causal Model of Institutional Factors and Teachers' Roles

Abstract

The use of Computer-Aided Instruction (CAI) in schools has become an important topic of research among educators with the widespread availability of microcomputers to aid teachers and students in their teaching and learning process. While many past studies have been carried out to gauge the effectiveness of CAI in enhancing students' performance, this research seeks to unravel factors that would contribute to the successful implementation of CAI in classroom. This research study adopts a path modeling approach, whereby the various factors during different stages of the teaching and learning are examined before the final outcome, the student's learning effectiveness. A survey approach was taken and Partial Least Square (PLS) was used in assessing the psychometrics properties of the construct and the testing of the proposed path model. Results showed strong support for our proposed path model. These findings have important implications for introducing educational technologies successfully in schools.