The Relationship between Acceptance and Usage of Information and Communication Technology and Educational and Research Performance of Faculty Members of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in 2008-2009

Soleymani, Shila; Mosavi, Seyed Yaghub; Parirokh, Mehri

The Relationship between Acceptance and Usage of Information and Communication Technology and Educational and Research Performance of Faculty Members of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in 2008-2009

Authors

Shila Soleymani

Seyed Yaghub Mosavi

Mehri Parirokh

Abstract

The present research studied the relationship between
acceptance and usage of information and communication
technology with educational and investigative performance of
faculty members of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad.
Investigating unknowns and educational challenges was one of the
reasons for conducting this research .This research was application
research and descriptive survey from aim perspective and was
based on correlation analysis. The sample consisted of 274 of
faculty members of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and
questionnaire and interview have been used as data collection
tools. Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to calculate the
reliability of different parts of questionnaire. The following
results using Pearson correlation coefficient, there was a positive
relationship (direct) between usage rate of information and
communication technology by faculty members of Ferdowsi
University of Mashhad and their educational and research
performance.ı

Keywords

Information and communication technology

faculty members

Educational performance

Research Performance

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad