Summary of two evaluation studies in educational technology

Study(1)

Title:

Evaluating Effectiveness of E-Blackboard System Using TAM Framework: A Structural Analysis Approach

Aims of the Study:

This study aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of e-Blackboard instructional tools to enhance the e-learning process. Based on a target sample of undergraduate students, four factors were considered to assess effectiveness:

1.     Ease of use.

2.     Perception of usefulness.

3.     Student’s attitude.

4.     Student’s behavior.

Instruments:

The questionnaire was distributed by hand to students while they were sitting for the final Fall-semester (January 5, 2005) examination. The participants were requested to stay for a longer time, after finishing their exam, to complete the questionnaire on their perception of the effectiveness of e-Blackboard. In addition to the demographic information part, the participating students were asked to indicate their perception and level of agreement with a number of measures that have been acknowledged by previous research studies as having an influence on the effectiveness of web-based learning.

The measures that were considered in this study included student’s perception

Regarding:

1. E-Blackboard eases of use.

2. Usefulness.

3. Attitude.

4. Cognitive behavior.

A multistage sampling approach was used to sample students at random.

Reference:

Abdalla; “Evaluating effectiveness of e-blackboard system using TAM framework: A structural analysis approach”,(2007), AACE Journal , http://tinyurl.com/848rho4

Study(2)

Title:

Evaluating Effectiveness of E-Blackboard System Using TAM Framework: A Structural Analysis Approach

Technology name:

E-blackboard

Features of technology:

According to the result of this study E-blackboard has these two main features:

1. Ease of use.

2. Usefulness

Here some explanations about the result:

Both Perceived ease of use (PEOU) and perceived usefulness (PU) positively affected students’ attitude towards e-Blackboard. Moreover, the students’ attitude positively influenced students’ perception regarding effectiveness of e-

Blackboard in terms of interactions between students’ behavior and within ICT-rich learning environment. Perception of e-Blackboard usefulness also influences positively on students’ perception regarding the effectiveness of e-Blackboard.

Reference:

Abdalla; “Evaluating effectiveness of e-blackboard system using TAM framework: A structural analysis approach”,(2007), AACE Journal , http://tinyurl.com/848rho4

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