A wide variety of technologies is currently used in educational settings (Mitchell & Paprzycki
1993, Paprzycki & Mitchell, 1991, Vidakovic & Paprzycki, 1993). However, within the last
couple of years, most of these technologies are being used (and enriched) in a computer-
based environment. It is obvious that it will be teachers (present and future) who will play a
decisive role in how successful the technology will be in education. At the same time, there
seems to linger a widespread belief that teachers are more hesitant and less likely to …

… We have decided to investigate the validity of this belief on a population of prospective
teachers and examine students’ attitudes toward computers in relationship to gender, age
and academic major. We developed a survey to examine the level of computer anxiety. The
aim of this paper is to present the preliminary results of our study. … We found no significant
difference between prospective teachers and the rest of the student body in the overall
attitude toward computers and on question by question basis. When comparing all five groups …