A fluência em tecnologia da informação entre estudantes de administração

• Autor(a) principal: Diniz, Cládice Nóbile
• Data de Publicação: 2005
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional do IBICT - RIDI
• Texto Completo: http://ridi.ibict.br/handle/123456789/688
• topic: Tecnologia da informação; Alfabetização digital; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::CIENCIA DA INFORMACAO

The concept of Fluency with information technology (FIT) is focused in this study which also tries to measure aspects of this type of capacity among Business School students. A discussion of the literature that deals with this concept reveals that it has several meanings and involves multiple and complex qualifications. The characteristics of FIT as applied to Management, both in work and school environments, are also considered. The empirical study was applied to students enrolled in the third year of two large Rio de Janeiro universities that offer Business Courses in different localities of the metropolitan area; a total of 320 pupils were surveyed. Data analyses undertaken show that students have relatively high performance in certain basic skills and aspects of IT, but lack fluency in other dimensions, including some that seem relevant to business professionals. Analyses that try to identify differences in FIT that might be due to the student social and economic background do not indicate strong relationships. Among the aspects that suggest a more consistent relation with FIT are early access to computer, fluency in English, and the student s gender. The identification of these factors seem to show that family values and strategies in education might be fundamental to FIT acquisition. These findings seem to give support to approaches that stress the complexity and the multiple dimensions involved in FIT