Toward Technology Distribution of mean attitudes toward technology scores. The Attitudes Toward Technology scale consisted of 42 items which subjects rated on a scale from 1 to 6, where a high number represented positive attitudes.
Bars represent the number of students and their mean scores.
Usable responses were received from 47 students. As displayed in Figure 11, the distribution of mean attitudes across the 47 respondents ranged from 3.81 to 5.76, indicating considerable variation but a tendency toward the favorable end of the scale with a mean of 4.8 and a standard deviation of .5. Individual item means for the Attitudes Toward Technology scale at Time 1. The items differed considerably in the degree to which these respondents had favorable attitudes. The means for the items are shown in Table 7, sorted from the item receiving the most favorable evaluation to the item receiving the least favorable rating.