Correlates of Senior High School Students’ Attitude and Internet Usage

Abstract

This study examined the relationship between Senior High School students’ attitudes towards internet and their actual usage in the Cape Coast Metropolis of Ghana. A correlational research design was used to examine 200 students’ internet usage and their attitudes: perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and subjective norms guided by the Technology Acceptance Model. Data was analyzed using correlation, linear regression and independent samples t-test. Although, the results showed a positive linear relationship between all the attitudinal dimensions of internet usage: the strongest predictor of internet usage reported by the students was their perceived ease of use of the internet. It was also evident from the findings that female students reported higher internet usage than their male counterparts. One of the implications of these findings is that instructional designers and researchers should design instructions that integrate ICT and internet into the teaching and learning processes as the internet is source endowed with rich materials for teachers’ teaching and students’ conceptual development.