A cross-cultural examination of the intention to use technology between Singaporean and Malaysian pre-service teachers: An application of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 265-280

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

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Pre service teachers; Structural equation modeling; Technology acceptance

Indexed keywords

EID: 67651060670     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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