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The Semantic Differential scale has 7 options. The sixth and seventh options are the
ones that evaluate Internet as Agree and Strongly Agree. If one adds the sixth and
seventh options from this table , the attributes most positively evaluated are the
following: Easy to use (70%); Practical (66%); Accessible ( 61%); Trustworthy
(60%); Fast (58%); Complete (57%). Table 14.
Number of Term Papers in which the students use Internet. Thirty percent used
Internet in 1 to 2 term Papers: 28% in 3 Term Papers; 42% in 4 or 5 Term Papers.
Table 15.
Percentage of the use of Internet for last semester’s Term Papers. Thirty two percent
used Internet for 2% to 35% of their Term Papers; Thirty six percent used Internet for
40% to 50% of their Term papers; Thirty three percent used Internet for 60% to 100%
of their Term Papers.
2. Relationships found using the Chi square test of independence among
variables.
The age of the subjects is related to the evaluation of Internet as being trustworthy
in its information. The age was recoded as 17 years old through 19 for the young; 20
years old for the middle; and 21 years old through 27 for the older student group. The
older the students (21 to 27) the less they found the information in Internet to be
trustworthy. (Sig. .03) *
Age and percentage of the term papers where Internet was used as a source was not
related . (Sig. .69)*. Percentage of term papers where Internet was used as a source
Convention