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Adoption and use of statistical software support in higher education: a cross-national analysis

Sebian, Ben; Ghaviferkr, Simin; Yildirim, Atila

Authors

Simin Ghaviferkr

Atila Yildirim



Abstract

The databases’ information and associated analytical approaches are gaining an ever-greater role in making business decisions, thus increasing the need for highly educated employees with good expertise of statistical support software that provides support for analysis of complex databases. This article presents a cross-national analysis regarding the adoption and use of statistical support software SPSS in higher education among students from Slovenia, Malaysia and Turkey. We present a conceptual model, based on TAM (Technology Acceptance Model) and we compared it in different national contexts. The conceptual model was tested using SEM (structural equation modeling). Despite different cultural and geographical differences, we found that the three models as a whole do not significantly differ, however, vary considerable differences between individual constructs by countries were identified. Students from Malaysia and Turkey are perceiving greater benefits of using of SPSS in future, show greater compatibility of SPSS with the academic needs, and have more positive attitude towards the use of SPSS as well as higher perceived usefulness of statistics as students from Slovenia.

Citation

Sebian, B., Ghaviferkr, S., & Yildirim, A. (2023). Adoption and use of statistical software support in higher education: a cross-national analysis. Quality and Quantity, 57, 4633-4656. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-022-01571-x

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Oct 26, 2022
Online Publication Date Nov 14, 2022
Publication Date 2023-10
Deposit Date Jul 5, 2024
Print ISSN 0033-5177
Electronic ISSN 1573-7845
Publisher Springer
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 57
Pages 4633-4656
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-022-01571-x
Keywords TAM, SPSS, Statistics, Technology acceptance, Cross-national analysis
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3704046