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DIFFERENCES IN PERCEPTION OF PERSONAL COMPUTER AS A LEARNING AND LEISURE INSTRUMENT BY UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND POLAND
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The paper describes the results of a research study focusing on the perception of personal computer by university students in the Czech Republic and Poland. The objective was to find out whether they use it more as a learning instrument or leisure instrument and how often and how long they use it for these individual activities. The research methods were questionnaire and an optimised version of the ATER semantic differential. The research study was performed in autumn of 2014 and involved students from the Faculty of Education, Palacky University, Olomouc in various fields of study, and students of teaching at the University of Rzeszow. The respondents were presented with a questionnaire that investigated the purpose and frequency of using a personal computer and other identification data. To identify their attitude to the issue, the students were presented with (using the semantic differential) the following concepts: Colleagues – students, Personal computer, Future, Money, I, My relationships with people, Interpersonal communication, My future success at work, Physical activity, Dependence on technologies (PC, mobile phone, internet), My professional preparation, Friendship. The data obtained from both groups of respondents from the Czech Republic and Poland were statistically analysed using the Student’s t-test. The semantic differential data were used to develop a semantic space to observe selected concepts in various groups of respondents. We also investigated whether the concept of personal computer (and other related concepts) is perceived differently by various students according to their individual PC activities.
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