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Technology Adoption in Cambodia: Measuring Factors Impacting Adoption Rates
Author(s) -
Richardson Jayson W.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.1661
Subject(s) - information and communications technology , linear discriminant analysis , demographics , set (abstract data type) , psychology , medical education , marketing , business , sociology , political science , medicine , demography , computer science , statistics , mathematics , law , programming language
This study was conducted to investigate which factors were most influential on Cambodian teacher trainers' decision to adopt the use of a spceific set of ICT skills. Discriminant analysis was used to study differences among five groups of teacher trainers. Group membership was determined based on the theory of the diffusion of innovations. The discriminant analysis indicated that after controlling for demographics (i.e., age, gender, experience, and type of training college) the choice to adopt use was most significantly influenced if use of the ICT skills was perceived to be easy and mandatory. Findings for future ICT in education initiatives in less developed countries are discussed. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.