A STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR ON INFORMAITON AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE ACADEMIC OF SECONDARY SCHOOL

Abstract

The purposes of this research study are 1) to study the information and communication technology consumption behaviors of the high school students affecting the academic achievements in the education area 1, and 2) to present the structural relationships between the consumption behaviors and the academic achievements of the students. This study is a quantitative research study selected 400 samples with the simple sampling method. The statistic software package was used. The qualitative data were studied by interviewing the personnel and students of the schools in the education area.

            The findings are as follows:

1. Regarding the information and communication technology consumptionconditions of the high school students in the terms of social context, community culture and school atmosphere, the behaviors in the overall terms are at the high levels. There are academic achievements more than the other terms. By comparing the distributions of the variables, it can be observed from the co-efficient of the variances of the behavior levels for all variables are not different (23.15-42.41). The variable with the highest co-efficient of variance is family background, and the variable with the lowest co-efficient of variance is information and communication technology consumption behavior.

1. The structural relationships between the information and communication technology consumption behaviors and the academic achievements of the students after analyzing the confirmative components of the academic achievements consist of main factors: 1) family background, 2) social context and community culture, 3) school atmosphere, 4) information and communication technology consumption behavior, 5) information and communication technology consumption condition, 6) information and communication technology basics, 7) information and communication technology availability, 8) high school students’ studies, 9) information and communication technology skills, 10) information and communication technology knowledge,11) information and communication technology consumption average score and 12) information and communication technology acceptance.