Is there an attitude problem? Reconsidering the role of attitude in the TAM
British Journal of Educational TechnologyPublished 25 November 2008
Timothy Teo
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The author found that the preservice teachers' attitudes were not a contributing factor in the total variance of technology usage, and concluded that the attitude construct is not needed in the TAM.
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Introduction Among the models that were developed to explain and predict technology usage, the technology acceptance model (TAM) (Davis, Bagozzi & Warshaw, 1989) is arguably one of the most widely adopted and tested across organisational contexts, technologies and cultures. The main goal of the TAM is to describe the influence of users’ beliefs and attitudes on their intention to use technology and, subsequently, the usage of technology itself. ...
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