Assessing the intention to use technology among pre-service teachers in Singapore and Malaysia: A multigroup invariance analysis of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)

Computers and Education

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1000-1009

  Teo, Timothy ^a   Lee, Chwee Beng ^a   Chai, Ching Sing ^a   Wong, Su Luan ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Intention to use; Invariance; Multigroup; Pre service teachers; Technology Acceptance Model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER USE; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; INTENTION TO USE; LOADING PATTERNS; MALAYSIA; MALAYSIANS; METHOD OF ANALYSIS; MULTIGROUP; PERCEIVED EASE OF USE; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; PRE-SERVICE TEACHER; PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS; SEM; SINGAPORE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING; STRUCTURAL MODELS; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL;

LOADING; MODEL STRUCTURES; SURVEYS; TEACHING;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 67650251247     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2009.05.017     Document Type: Article

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