Abstract:
With the advent of the computer technologies, we are increasingly encountering these technologies in every
field of life. The fact that the computer technology is so much interwoven with the daily life makes it necessary
to investigate certain psychological attitudes of those working with computers towards computers. As this study
is limited to the impact of technology on education, anxiety, out of certain psychological attitudes, was
investigated within it. The investigation was on the vocational high-school students’ computer-related anxiety,
and as a data collection instrument, the Computer Anxiety Scale was used. The Computer Anxiety Scale was
conducted on 265 students receiving education at various departments in the Tunceli Vocational School of
Tunceli University. It was observed as a result that gender is a variable that did not make any meaningful
difference for the computer anxiety, while the type of education received, grade, receiving computer education
and having a computer may mean meaningful differences in terms of various sub-factors and the whole scale
itself. It is necessary to determine the level of computer anxiety, and keep it under control while receiving
computer education or while learning with computers.
