Attitudes towards digital gap among university students, and its relationship with educational progress and socioeconomic status
Introduction: Digital gap may exist in national scale, among organizations and other groups of society, since it is an indicative of inequality in information technology ground and communication. This study aims to investigate the attitude towards digital gap among students, and its relationship wit...
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| description | Introduction: Digital gap may exist in national scale, among organizations and other groups of society, since it is an indicative of inequality in information technology ground and communication. This study aims to investigate the attitude towards digital gap among students, and its relationship with educational progress and socio-economic status (SES) of university students at Alborz University of Medical Sciences.
Methods: This was a cross sectional analytic study. students were randomly selected according to multistage cluster method. The tools for collecting data were Davis (1989) questionnaire on attitude towards internet, and a researcher made questionnaire. The formal validity of the questionnaires is confirmed by a panel of experts, Cronbach's alpha's coefficient was also calculated. Pearson coefficient were calculated andindependent T- test was used for analyzing the data.
Result: The analysis of data indicates that there is a meaningful relationship between the attitude towards digital gap and educational progress, and also SES of the students. Furthermore, there was adifferences between the attitudes of males (48.7) and felames (46.5) toward digital gap (p=0.01).
Conclusion:There is an attitude towards digital gap in university students. Interventions are needed to close the digital gaps in studnets. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d2ba7117bbad40fda62e7d0a214d863b2022-12-22T00:31:36ZfasShahid Sadoughi University of Medical SciencesJournal of Medical Education and Development2251-70652251-82662017-03-01114310318Attitudes towards digital gap among university students, and its relationship with educational progress and socioeconomic statusZ Derikvandi0A Derikvandi1 Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, Arak University, Arak, Iran Teacher Imam Reza, Andimesk, Iran Introduction: Digital gap may exist in national scale, among organizations and other groups of society, since it is an indicative of inequality in information technology ground and communication. This study aims to investigate the attitude towards digital gap among students, and its relationship with educational progress and socio-economic status (SES) of university students at Alborz University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This was a cross sectional analytic study. students were randomly selected according to multistage cluster method. The tools for collecting data were Davis (1989) questionnaire on attitude towards internet, and a researcher made questionnaire. The formal validity of the questionnaires is confirmed by a panel of experts, Cronbach's alpha's coefficient was also calculated. Pearson coefficient were calculated andindependent T- test was used for analyzing the data. Result: The analysis of data indicates that there is a meaningful relationship between the attitude towards digital gap and educational progress, and also SES of the students. Furthermore, there was adifferences between the attitudes of males (48.7) and felames (46.5) toward digital gap (p=0.01). Conclusion:There is an attitude towards digital gap in university students. Interventions are needed to close the digital gaps in studnets.http://jmed.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-715-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1Digital gap socio-economic status educational progress |
| spellingShingle | Z Derikvandi A Derikvandi Attitudes towards digital gap among university students, and its relationship with educational progress and socioeconomic status Journal of Medical Education and Development Digital gap socio-economic status educational progress |
| title | Attitudes towards digital gap among university students, and its relationship with educational progress and socioeconomic status |
| title_full | Attitudes towards digital gap among university students, and its relationship with educational progress and socioeconomic status |
| title_fullStr | Attitudes towards digital gap among university students, and its relationship with educational progress and socioeconomic status |
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| title_short | Attitudes towards digital gap among university students, and its relationship with educational progress and socioeconomic status |
| title_sort | attitudes towards digital gap among university students and its relationship with educational progress and socioeconomic status |
| topic | Digital gap socio-economic status educational progress |
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