Comparing computer anxiety of humanistic, basic science, and technical and engineering students in the University of Tehran regarding gender

Abstract In the last decade, there has been emphasis on computer technology usage in everyday life, and even more, in universities. Multimedia classes with computer related technologies have vastly become norm in university space. Students are increasingly required to provide their tasks on computers and apply computer hardware and software for class projects. In the present study, in order to investigate the amount of computer anxiety of humanistic, basic science, and technical and engineering students, 384 (211 female and 173 male) people were selected through stratified ratio sampling and answered to Becker & Schmidt's (2001)