Computer attitude, statistics anxiety and self-efficacy on statistical software adoption behavior: An empirical study of online MBA learners.
Educators need to know how to motivate business students (i.e., future business practitioners) to learn and use statistical software, which can provide the practical skills necessary for business professionals to analyze data and make informed decisions. Using a sample of 207 online MBA students fro...
| Published in: | Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 412 - 421 |
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Elsevier Science
March 2009
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