An investigation of office management and wxecutive assistant lecturers' attitudes towards information technology.

This study aims to investigate the attitudes of office management and executive assistant department lecturers working at a vocational school towards information technology and the extent to which they use technology tools in their life. Research population consists of 455 office management and executive assistant department lecturers working at a vocational school in Turkey and the sample consist of 100 lecturers who returned the survey. Data were collected with "Office Management and Executive Assistant Lecturers' Attitudes Towards Information Technology Survey Scale", which was published in "Computers in the Schools" journal in 2014 and named "Measuring Teacher Attitude Towards Instructional Technology: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of TAC and TAC". The score of the reliability check, done with Cronbach Alpha, was 0.858 for the questionnaire. In order to ensure the accuracy of the data mixed methods research was used combining both quantitative and qualitative research methods. The results of the data analysis yielded positive findings regarding office management and executive assistant lecturers towards information technology and their use of the computer, e-mail, multi-media, world wide web (www) correlating with their positive attitudes (p<0.05). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]