Relational analysis of medical students’ Internet attitudes and online Information commitments

Abstract

The Internet has become the most widely used resource of information, it influenced the mediation of teaching and learning .Therefore, this study attempted to investigate whether Internet attitude affect the university medical students’ Information commitments. Furthermore, the relationships between Internet attitudes and medical students’ Information commitments were examined as well. This paper explored 405 medical university students (148 males and 311 females) from 6 medical universities in Taiwan. This study utilized two questionnaires to respectively survey the medical students’ information attitudes and their online information commitment. Exploratory factor analyses revealed that both the questionnaires are adequately reliable and valid for medical students. In addition, the regression analyses revealed that medical students’ Internet attitudes were viewed as predictors to explain their standards of judging online information and their search strategies on the Web.