Ebenezer Anohah

Work place: University of Eastern Finland/School of Computing, Joensuu, 8101, Finland

E-mail: anohah@gmail.com

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Research Interests: Applied computer science, Computer systems and computational processes, Theoretical Computer Science

Biography

Ebenezer Anohah is a doctoral student at the University of Eastern, Finland with computer science major and a passion for using mobile technologies to enhance teaching and learning in computer science education. His doctoral work involves the use of indigenous cultural approaches to learn computer science education and explore the underlying learning models at high school level in developing country context.

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Using Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology Model to Predict Students’ Behavioral Intention to Adopt and Use E-Counseling in Ghana

By Emmanuel Awuni Kolog Erkki Sutinen Marjatta Vanhalakka-Ruoho Jarkko Suhonen Ebenezer Anohah

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmecs.2015.11.01, Pub. Date: 8 Nov. 2015

The urge to progressively motivate e-counseling in schools is somewhat dependent on students’ behavioral intention towards the use of counseling technologies. This paper presents an empirical approach of using Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology model to ascertain students’ behavioral intention to adopt and use e-counseling in Ghana. Questionnaires were used to collect data from two hundred and fifty (N=250) randomly selected students from Ghana. Cronbach alpha (α) was first employed to validate and ascertain the reliability of the data. Subsequently, Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) was performed in analysing the data. After that, a follow-up interview was conducted to explore the variance in our findings from the collected data through the questionnaires. In the end, the reliability of the test items contained in the questionnaire yielded strongly at 87.6 %. Also, whereas the outcome of the research suggests Performance Expectancy (PE) (B = .511 , p= .000) and Social Influence (SI) (B = .165 p = .001) as the influencing constructs (factors) towards students’ behavioral intention to adopt and use e-counseling, Facilitation Condition (FC) (B= .014, p= .723) and Effort Expectancy (EE) (B= .086 p= .080) had no significant effect on the behavioral intention of students to adopt and use e-counseling in Ghana.

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