Computer Attitude Questionnaire (CAQ)

Instruments

The Computer Attitude Questionnaire is a 65-item Likert instrument for measuring middle school students' attitudes on all Young Children's Computer Inventory subscales plus computer anxiety. The 4-point Likert scale version is recommended for grades 4-8; the 5-point Likert scale version is recommended for high school students. This questionnaire is part of a series of six instruments developed to assess youth attititudes towards information technology. The link includes links to the instrument and links to two technical reports about the CAQ as well as documentation of reliability testing and

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Self-Efficacy in Technology and Science (SETS)

Instruments

The Self-Efficacy in Technology and Science (SETS) is a specific measure of self-efficacy in science inquiry and technology for middle school students. The SETS consists of six independent sections on self-efficacy in science inquiry and technology (science inquiry, using the Internet to find information, general computer usage, synchronous chat use, videogaming and computer gaming). The linked and attached paper provides the instrument and instrument documentation for the SETS. Diane Ketelhut's chapter regarding the SETS begins on page 14. Authors provide instrument validity and/or

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The ITEST Learning Resource Center's Online Evaluation Database: Examples from the Collection

Publications

The ITEST Learning Resource Center at EDC developed an online database of instruments developed by ITEST project evaluators and researchers from 2003 to 2007. This 2007 article details the purpose and development of that database and highlights three instruments from it that represent the kind of evaluation tools archived there. While the database is no longer available, the three instruments described in the article provide useful examples of project-developed evaluation tools. More information about the database and the instruments can be obtained by emailing stelar@edc.org.

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