PLSpath Modelling of Various Factors' Influence on Students' Knowledge of Informatics
نویسنده
چکیده
The article presents results of the national survey on teaching and studying informatics at Grades 11 and 12 in the Lithuanian secondary school. This study explores the influence of different factors on students’ achievements in informatics. The purpose of this work is to study the interaction between various characteristics of student, teacher and school, and factors of studying and teaching informatics and their joint influence on students’ achievements in informatics. In addition, the article explores and contrasts the casual influence structures on the students’ knowledge of two different branches of informatics: computer application and programming. To explore these interrelations, PLSpath analytic procedure has been used.
منابع مشابه
Examining the factors that influence early adopters' smartphone adoption: The case of college students
The influence of early adopters on potential adopters’ decisions of whether or not to adopt a product is known to be critical. In this paper, we examine the factors that influence the adoption behavior of smartphone early adopters by looking at smartphone adoption behavior of college students, because a large portion of the early adopters of smartphones are college students. Our focus is on the...
متن کاملInfluence of education on knowledge, attitude and practices of students of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences to traffic light inserted on food labeling
Background: Nutrition education and introduction of procedures for choosing healthier food have an important role to reduce the rate of non-communicable diseases. It was shown the amount of risk factors of non-communicable diseases such as energy, salt, sugar, fat and trans fatty acid on the traffic light of food labelling. The status of risk is presented through three colors of red, yellow and...
متن کاملA framework for knowledge: Analysing high school students’ understanding of data modelling
The discursive interaction both with teacher and fellow students plays an important role for each student’s construction of knowledge. The teacher’s understanding of the students’ mental models is essential for the outcome of this interaction. This paper discusses epistemological aspects of using students’ verbal explanations as measure of mental models. A framework of different types of knowle...
متن کاملAdoption and implementation of information technology in Bali's local government: A comparison between single level path analyses using PLSPATH 3.01 and AMOS 4 and Multilevel Path Analyses using MPLUS 2.01
Recent advances in information technology have aroused much interest among policy-makers, the business sector, the media and the academic world in developed countries. However, very little is known about the obstacles to accessing information technology (IT) and the diffusion and use of information technologies in developing countries, particularly the low-income economies. This research stems ...
متن کامل“An Investigation into Factors Influencing Students’ Attitude toward using Social Media as a Recruitment Tool”
It is of no doubt that social media sites have become the most dominated subject in today life. However, the effect of those websites has widely disseminated not only into social life but into the business world as well. Recruitment is one of the topics that have influence by social networking sites. Previous studies have shown growing use of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter an...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید
ثبت ناماگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید
ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Informatica, Lith. Acad. Sci.
دوره 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001