Publication Type : Journal Article
Thematic Areas : Learning-Technologies
Publisher : Education and Information Technologies.
Source : Education and Information Technologies volume 23, pages1919–1932 (2018)
Campus : Coimbatore
School : School of Business
Center : Amrita Center For Research in Analytics, AmritaCREATE
Department : Business
Year : 2018
Abstract : Within the context of Rogers theory of perceived attributes, authors propose a framework that can predict students’ motivation to adopt programming contest like ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). In this paper we investigate the attributes for adoption of programming contest in a social group comprising of (N = 1245) undergraduate engineering students from the regional finals of the contest held in India over a period of 3 years. The results revealed that student motivations are strongly associated with attributes like relative advantage, compatibility, ease of use, peer influence, perceived enjoyment and perceived usefulness. Overall, students expressed positive attitude towards adopting programming contests as it helped improve their problem solving and programming skills and overall employability. Both gender was in agreement that joining and winning programming contests is a status symbol. © 2018 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
Cite this Research Publication : Raman, R., Vachharajani, H. & Achuthan, K. Students motivation for adopting programming contests: Innovation-diffusion perspective. Educ Inf Technol 23, 1919–1932 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-018-9697-3