Essays on Computer Anxiety

Introduction

The Computer Anxiety Scale, popularly known as SCALE is a psychological test. It is used by industrial and organizational psychologists to assess and measure the levels of anxiety as a result of using computers. The test can also be used to measure anxiety in people who do not interact directly with computers but spend a lot of time in computer environments. The test was designed and authored by E. R. Oetting. It was published in 1983 by the Rocky Mountain Institute of behavior Science. The publisher’s postal address is Box 1066, Fort Collins and the postal code is 80522. The publisher’ ...

Test Development, Part One

Test Development, Part One Test Plan for Measuring Knowledge of validity and Reliability Test format: multiple choice test Test Length: 20 items (30 Minutes)

Test Universe: This test is designed to measure the knowledge the participant possesses in reliability and validity of testing. KNOWLEDGE OF TERMS AND CONCEPTS TYPES OF RELIABILITY Test-retest method

Internal consistency method

Scorer reliability method

Subtotal: 15% RELIABILITY COEFFICIENTS

Cohen’s kappa

Correlations in two test administrations

Standard error of measurement

Confidence interval

Subtotal: 25% EVIDENCE OF VALIDITY Test content

Response process

Internal structure

Relations to ...

Statistics

Assumptions I. The level of computer anxiety among students is dependent on whether or not they own computers and the student’s age. II. The relationship between the dependent variable, which is the level of computer anxiety among students, and the independent variables, which are whether or not they own computers and the student’s age, is linear.

Hypothesis statement

T-tests are normally performed to determine whether the linear relationship between the variables is significant .If the linear relationship between the dependent variable and the independent variables is significant; the slope cannot be equal to zero.

The null and alternate hypothesis will be;

H0: The slopes ...