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Adoption and use of statistical software support in higher education: a cross-national analysis

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The databases’ information and associated analytical approaches are gaining an ever-greater role in making business decisions, thus increasing the need for highly educated employees with good expertise of statistical support software that provides support for analysis of complex databases. This article presents a cross-national analysis regarding the adoption and use of statistical support software SPSS in higher education among students from Slovenia, Malaysia and Turkey. We present a conceptual model, based on TAM (Technology Acceptance Model) and we compared it in different national contexts. The conceptual model was tested using SEM (structural equation modeling). Despite different cultural and geographical differences, we found that the three models as a whole do not significantly differ, however, vary considerable differences between individual constructs by countries were identified. Students from Malaysia and Turkey are perceiving greater benefits of using of SPSS in future, show greater compatibility of SPSS with the academic needs, and have more positive attitude towards the use of SPSS as well as higher perceived usefulness of statistics as students from Slovenia.

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Appendix A: Measurement scale for conceptual research model

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Attitude toward using SPSS

1. [AT1]: Overall, I have a positive opinion about the use of SPSS

2. [AT2]: I believe it is a good idea to use SPSS in while studying

3. [AT3]: I like the idea about the use of SPSS

4. [AT4]: I support the use of SPSS

Perceived compatibility with needs of study

1. [C1]: SPSS is appropriate in all aspects of my study program

2. [C2]: Working with SPSS fits well with my field of study

3. [C3]: Usage of SPSS complies with my study and work habits

Perceived usefulness of statistics (US)

1. [US1]: Use of expertise in statistics enables me to accomplish learning activities and obligations more quickly

2. [US2]: Use of expertise in statistics is improving my study grade average

3. [US3]: Use of expertise in statistics improves my study efficiency

4. [US4]: Expertise in statistics is useful

5. [US5]: Expertise in statistics makes my study obligations simple

6. [US6]: In my opinion is expertise in statistics useful in general

Perceived usefulness of SPSS (U)

1. [U1]: Using SPSS enables me to accomplish learning activities and obligations more quickly

2. [U2]: Using SPSS helps me accomplish my studying effectively

3. [U3]: Using SPSS enables me to accomplish learning obligations more easily

4. [U4]: In my opinion is expertise obtained of SPSS at faculty useful in general

5. [U5]: In my opinion usage of SPSS should be learned in all schools of higher education

Perceived SPSS ease of use (EU)

1. [EU1]: Using SPSS is simple and easy to understand

2. [EU2]: Learning SPSS is simple

3. [EU3]: Working with SPSS does not require much thinking

4. [EU4]: I think it is easy to get SPSS to do what I want it to do

5. [EU5]: General using SPSS is simple in understand

Intention to use SPSS in the future (IU)

1. [IU1]: I intend to use SPSS more in the future

2. [IU2]: I will use SPSS for analysis more than other statistical information support

3. [IU3]: I will share my knowledge of SPSS and recommend others to use the SPSS

  1. We used the following scale: 1 = strongly disagree, 2 = disagree, 3 = mildly disagree, 4 = neither agree nor disagree, 5 = mildly agree, 6 = agree, 7 = strongly agree.

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Sebian, B., Ghaviferkr, S. & Yildirim, A. Adoption and use of statistical software support in higher education: a cross-national analysis. Qual Quant 57, 4633–4656 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-022-01571-x

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