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Gullerud, Ernest N. Pittman, Sharon Weaver 2011-05-07T13:00:51Z 2011-05-07T13:00:51Z 10000-01-01 1994 Instructional computing applications are increasingly being diffused throughout social work higher education. For this study, graduate faculty ($N=330$) nation-wide were surveyed about their use and perceptions of computers as instructional tools. Rogers' (1983) Diffusion Theory was used to identify variables hypothesized to be correlated with the innovational adoption process. The findings suggested that the innovational attributes of trialability (r =.459, $p<.001$) and observability (r =.363, $p<.001$) surfaced as moderate predictors of instructional computing innovation adoption levels. Perceptions of complexity (r =.358, $p<.001$) as they pertained to computer anxiety and perceptions of relative advantage (r =.361, $p<.001$) were also moderately correlated with innovational adoption levels. Vital to social workers, perceptions of compatibility with values also moderately predicted adoption levels (r =.342, $p<.001$). Past experiences with computers did not appear to correlate with adoption levels. Finally, institutional and individual variables were not significant in predicting instructional computing innovation adoption levels among graduate faculty. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:00:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9416427.pdf: 5186589 bytes, checksum: 2cdbd95b89b3b6f5cf6003283b38c544 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1994 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:49:02Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:22:16-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9416427 (UMI)AAI9416427 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/21182 eng Copyright 1994 Pittman, Sharon Weaver Social Work Education, Technology of Education, Higher An exploratory study of the diffusion of instructional computing innovation among social work faculty text Social Work Social Work University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.