MEASURING ATTITUDE TOWARDS COMPUTER OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS- AFFECTIVE DOMAIN

The present study examines Cognitive and Affective Computer Attitudes of Secondary Teachers 300 teachers (170 male and 130 female – belonging to Urban area – 160 and Rural area – 140) were randomly selected from Colleges of Education affiliated to North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon. Computer attitudes scale (Cognitive and Affective) developed by D.Kumaran and K. Selvaraju was used for data collection. The result indicate that – (a) Teachers have a favourable computer attitude. (b) Sex and subject of specialization (faculty) have no significant influence on cognitive computer attitude, affective computer attitude and computer attitude. (c) Urban teachers have more favourable cognitive computer attitude, affective computer attitude and computer attitude than Rural teachers. (d) In urban group, male teachers have more favourable affective computer attitude and computer attitude than those of female teachers, whereas both male and female teachers do not differ in respect of cognitive computer attitude.