An Analysis of the Effects of Internet on the Educationaand Research Data Acquisition Behavior of Universityl
Subject Areas : Education
اصغر Razavieh
1
(استادیار دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد گرمسار)
مهسا Fayazi
2
(کارشناس ارشد مدیریت آموزشی)
Keywords: Graduate students, Internet users, Internet non-users, Undergraduate students, Data acquisition behavior, Data retrieval,
Abstract :
The present study examined the effect of internet on the educational and research data acquisition behavior of Shiraz University students. More specifically, it aimed to answer questions concerning data acquisition behavior of two groups of internet users and non-users and factors affecting it, the way students access information, examining and comparing the amount of internet and data banks usage taking into consideration their educational degree and gender, the purpose and usage problems, and comparing the users’ and non-users’ research activities. To this end, 500 undergraduate and graduate students were sampled from ten Shiraz University faculties using stratified sampling method. They replied to a thirty-item questionnaire. The results of the study showed that the number of users exceeded the number of non-users and that the users’ gender and educational degrees had no effect on the amount of internet usage. Further, it was revealed that there was a significantly meaningful difference between the number of research activities in two groups of users and non-users. The reason to use internet was stated to be the ease and speed of data retrieval. The problems in using internet were divided into two classes of individual and general pertaining to the information system.