Predicting the secondary school students’ intention to use e-learning technologies

Abstract

Technology acceptance studies are interesting because they are practical and theo-retically helpful in explaining the adoption and intention to use a particular tech-nology. There is a large amount of research on e-learning and other technologies in the literature, but there is limited evidence to explain why secondary school stu-dents’ intention to use e-learning. This study explains secondary school students’ intentions to use e-learning with an extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). TAM is a useful theory to explain how people adopt new technologies in different fields. Data were collected from 2739 secondary school students in Turkey (Mage = 11.95). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modelling (SEM) were used to test the conceptual model. The results are consis-tent with the original TAM model. The most critical variable affecting secondary school students’ intention to use e-learning technologies is enjoyment. The results show that there may be differences in the intention to use e-learning technologies for secondary school students in different cultures and contexts.