The Psychological structure of computer literacy and the development of curriculum for computer literacy education

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Purpose: Analyzing the psychological structure of computer literacy sand acquiring the knowledge requested for developing the curriculum for computer literacy education were main purposes.Method: Computer Literacy Test Which contains 33 items were developed, and 1867 high school and college students were tested by this new test.Findings: 1. There are four factors of which compose the computer literacy. They are knowledge of computer, skill in operating microcomputer, expectancy to computer and negative attitude to computer. 2. The students who can write programs have a great deal of knowledge and positive attitude to computer. But, the students who are indifferent/avoidant to computer have little knowledge and strong negative attitudes. These students do not like studying math and science and they are less adapted to school life and activities. 3. These facts suggest us that in teaching computer literacy to secondary school students, we should pay special regard to the indifferent/avoidant students. 4. There are many teachers who are indifferent/avoidant to computer. Therefore, same regards are necessary in the in-service education for computer.