med were examined to test the study's first hypothesis that: Attitudes toward computers will be significantly more positive for students who receive Computer Aided Instruction than for students who did not receive Computer Aided Instruction. In this regard, a series of Analyses of Variance were conducted, the first of which was performed to compare the total attitude scores observed for the two student groups. The value observed for this analysis (F=2.863; df=1;33; p=.100) was not significant indicating that the group of students exposed to CAI (Mean=112.316) evidenced relatively the same degree of positiveness of attitude as did the group of students not exposed to CAI (Mean=106.500). However, it should be pointed out that the observed probability level of .10, while not significant in itself, was sufficiently small to verify the claim that it might indicate a trend in the direction of computer assisted instruction improving attitudes.
In order to get a complete understanding of the overall attitudinal findings, a series of analyses of variance were conducted to compare student groups on each attitude questionnaire item. The means, F-scores, and probability levels observed for each of these analyses is presented in Table 2. As can be seen from inspection of this table, eight of the conducted analyses were observed to be significant. As can be seen from inspection of Table 2, eight of the conducted posttest analyses were observed to be significant. Specifically, the significant
Findings Observed For Posttest Analyses of Variance
(Higher Scores Show More Disagreement)
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ITEM Exp. Control F-score p
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1) Students receiving CAI disagreed significantly more
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