The development and factorial validity of an instrument to measure the attitudes of students toward the use of computers are described. A factor analysis of the intercorrelations of responses to 30 items for a sample of 233 seventh- and eighth-grade students in a white middle-class school revealed one identifiable factor dimension entitled General Attitudes Toward Computers with an estimated alpha internal consistency reliability of .87.
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