Computer attitudes and learning performance: issues for management education and training

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Previous research findings suggest that positive attitudes toward computers help students learn more quickly in computer courses. A study was conducted with a group of computer students to find out the relationship between respondents' computer attitudes and gender, computer ownership and learning performance. The results show that an overly positive attitude about computers is an obstacle to learning performance.

Psychological aspects, Research, Usage, Computers, Digital computers, Management training, Learning, Psychology of, Learning theory (Psychology), Computer literacy

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Design conditions for learning in community service contexts

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Research investigating the role of community service schemes in improving knowledge of the economic, social and cultural aspects of the community, as well as self-awareness of skills and abilities is presented. Ways in which project design influences action-learning achievements are examined.

Education, Influence, Community service, Community services, Action research

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Beliefs about 'improvability' of career-relavant skills: relevance to job/task analysis, competency modelling, and learning orientation

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The nature of implicit theory of skill malleability and improvability beliefs within a nomological network is explored. The potential practical value of improvability beliefs is discussed.

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