Changes in the basic ICT skills of freshmen between 2005 and 2009: Who's catching up and who's still behind?

Education and Information Technologies

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 205-231

  de Wit, Kurt ^a   Heerwegh, Dirk ^b   Verhoeven, Jef C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Business and Decision Life Sciences ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Change of computer use; Change of ICT skills; Computer use; Freshmen; ICT skills; Longitudinal analysis; Survey; TAM; Technology acceptance model; Universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856549864     PISSN: 13602357     EISSN: 15737608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10639-011-9154-z     Document Type: Article

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