The Bath County Computer Attitude Survey was developed originally in the U.S.A. For use among a school aged population. The present study explores the properties of this instrument among a different age group and in a different culture, employing a sample of 387 undergraduate students in the United Kingdom. The data support the reliability and validity of the scale. Tentative scale norms are presented separately for male and female students, but no gender differences were found.
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