TY - GEN
T1 - Information commitments and Internet attitudes of nutritional science students and in-service dietitians in Taiwan
AU - Wang, Ching Yeh
AU - Tsai, Meng Jung
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This study aimed to explore nutritional science students' and in-service dietitians' information commitments and Internet attitudes toward online nutritional information. The subjects were 340 nutritional science students and in-service dietitians in Taiwan. Two instruments, Information Commitments Survey (ICS) and Internet Attitude Scale (IAS), were used in this study. Results of the study showed that, although students and dietitians with more Internet experience perceived more positively toward Internet's usefulness, they tended to utilize less advanced information commitment standards and less advanced online information searching strategy. No gender difference was found in this study. Significant relations were found between information commitments and attitudes toward Internet. Finally, the in-service dietitians demonstrated more searching strategy than did the nutritional science students.
AB - This study aimed to explore nutritional science students' and in-service dietitians' information commitments and Internet attitudes toward online nutritional information. The subjects were 340 nutritional science students and in-service dietitians in Taiwan. Two instruments, Information Commitments Survey (ICS) and Internet Attitude Scale (IAS), were used in this study. Results of the study showed that, although students and dietitians with more Internet experience perceived more positively toward Internet's usefulness, they tended to utilize less advanced information commitment standards and less advanced online information searching strategy. No gender difference was found in this study. Significant relations were found between information commitments and attitudes toward Internet. Finally, the in-service dietitians demonstrated more searching strategy than did the nutritional science students.
KW - Information commitments
KW - Internet attitudes
KW - Nutritional science
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84860497955
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84860497955
SN - 9786161201883
T3 - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2011
SP - 628
EP - 633
BT - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2011
T2 - 19th International Conference on Computers in Education, ICCE 2011
Y2 - 28 November 2011 through 2 December 2011
ER -