Comparing the Amount of Faculty Members and University Students Familiarity with ICDL Skills in Islamic Azad Universities of Mazandaran

Subject Areas : Infomartion Technology

Reza Yousefi ¹ ( )
Mojtaba Rezaee Rad ² ( )

Received: 2013-07-22 Accepted : 2010-10-07 Published : 2010-10-01

Keywords: Information and communication technology, Islamic Azad University, ICDL Skills, faculty members, University students,

Abstract :

The purpose of present research was to compare and rank the amount of  familiarity of faculty members and university students with ICDL skills in the Islamic Azad Universities of Mazandaran province. The research was a survey- descriptive and the statistical population included 2150 faculty members and 68091 students of the very large Islamic Azad branches. The statistical sample was determined by the Krejcie and Morgan table, and 327 faculty members along with 384 students were examined as a sample. To select the sample, the multi-stage clustering random sampling method was used. A researcher-made questionnaire was used for gathering the data. The  Mann- Whitney U test was used to compare the amount of familiarity with information and communication technology and ICDL skills between two groups of faculty members and students. Freedman test was used to rank them. The results showed that there was a difference between the faculty members and students in all subgroups of ICDL skills, and faculty members had more familiarity with ICDL skills than the students. The results also showed a difference between the faculty members and the students in familiarity with different subgroups of ICDL skills.