PRE-UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ATTITUDES TOWARD COMPUTERS - AN INTERNATIONALPERSPECTIVE

This study investigates the attitudes of school students toward comput ers using the Bath County Computer Attitudes Scale and a sample of 644 students in Lebanon. The properties of the scale were explored in rel ation to a cultural environment that was not investigated before. The reliability and factor analysis of the scale were reported and compare d with the findings of other studies that were conducted in other coun tries using the same scale. In addition, factorial analysis of varianc e procedure was conducted to investigate the effect of gender and home ownership of computers on students' attitudes. Differences in the mea ns of students' attitudes who used computers differently or received d ifferent computer training were compared.