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IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 20102. METHOD2.1 Study GroupThe study group comprised of 191 students attending teacher education programs in 2009-2010 springsemester of a public university, Faculty of Education in Ankara.Table 1. Genders accross to the education programsFemale Male TotalEducation Programs Elementary Mathematics Education f 37 15 52% 29,8% 22,4% 27,2%Primary School Education f 66 47 113% 53,2% 70,1% 59,2%Elementary Science Education f 21 5 26% 16,9% 7,5% 13,6%Total f 124 67 1912.2 Data Collection ToolsThe data has been collected by means of 2 scales developed by the researchers. The content validity of thescales is based on expert opinion while the construct validity was provided by exploratory factor analysis.2.2.1 The Scale of Innovativeness:10 likert-type scale of Innovativeness consisted of 7 questions to measure innovativeness/being skeptical(Cronbach α = .697); the 2-factor innovativeness scale explained 55,4% of the total variance.Mean points of the factors have been considered while grouping participants. In order to determine theinnovators and skepticals in terms of mean points, a minimum ½ standard deviation difference between meanpoints has been taken into consideration. Table 2 presents the explanatory factor analysis result ofinnovativeness scale.Table 2. Explanatory factor analysis results of the innovativeness scaleInnovators Question Factor Loading Skepticals Question Factor Loading2 ,825 1 ,7823 ,810 9 ,7717 ,601 10 ,6938 ,5162.2.2 The Scale of Perceived Attributes of Innovation:Perceived attributes of innovation scale was consisted of 27 questions in 10 likert-type (Cronbach α= .929),as a result of the factor analysis, 27 items have been grouped under 5 factors and these 5-factor of perceivedattributes of innovation scale explained 66,78 % of the total variance.The result of this scale which was designed to distinguish meaning difference of relative advantage andperceived usefulness, showed that these two structure put forward different results when compared to thedefinitions of Davis (1989) and Rogers (2003). Examining the results of the factor analysis, the perceivedusefulness could be described with concepts such as increase in prestige, being economical, increase inperformance, productivity while relative advantage could be described as the individual’s personal opinionthat he finds it useful to employ, and that the innovation equips him with the ability to do something in amore swift and convenient fashion. Table 3 present the factors and the factor loadings of scale.305