| Summary: | 碩士 === 中華大學 === 工業管理學系碩士班 === 101 === As our society moves to the information age, improving students’ reading competencies has become one of the major issues in today’s education. Many schools have actively implemented “The Reading Certificate System for the Elementary Schools in Taichung City”, aiming to assess and enhance students’ reading competencies by using system-generated timely feedback. Prior research found that 89.4% of elementary students in Taichung indicated their satisfaction to the system, which implies that the system was implemented successfully in Taichung city. However, whether the system could be implemented as successfully for children in the lower socioeconomic areas (Educational Priority Areas or EPA) remained questionable.
Therefore, this study surveyed EPA students in Changhua County to investigate these children’s acceptance of The Reading Certificate System for the Elementary Schools in Taichung City. The researcher used TAM2 to study the relationship between the variable--personal background and each dimension of the model. The findings show that children’s behavioral intentions were affected by gender, frequency of using the system, the existence of a reward system in class, and other background factors. Moreover, the perceived usefulness, the perceived ease of use, and the perceived playfulness also greatly impacted on children’s behavioral intentions. These EPA children’s overall acceptance rate was 82.2%. It means that the acceptance of this system was not affected by the urban-rural gap, and, therefore, worth future implementation in more areas.
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