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Reports on IT Usage at UVA

1998 Measures of Information Technology Usage

Source: 1998 Survey of ITC Customers by the Center for Survey Research

Spring 1998

Faculty

Graduate Students

Undergraduate Students

Staff
Personally own a computer 87.0% 87.7% 84.6% 72.2%

How respondent uses computers
Word processing 90.4% 96.5% 98.1% 74.0%
Spreadsheets 51.4% 40.7% 45.2% 41.1%
Database 24.8% 15.1% 8.7% 26.4%
E-Mail 94.3% 96.0% 98.6% 76.2%
Usenet news 30.5% 30.2% 24.5% 30.6%
Course assignments 16.3% 23.6% 44.2% 3.8%
Statistical analysis 19.9% 16.6% 11.1% 4.9%
Programming languages 9.6% 6.5% 22.1% 1.5%
Graphics, CAD, etc. 4.6% 5.0% 7.7% 2.6%
Specially licensed packages 13.5% 11.1% 7.7% 4.5%
University admin packages 8.5% 3.0% 2.4% 15.1%
Presentation graphics 49.3% 32.2% 21.6% 20.0%
Desktop publishing 12.4% 9.5% 7.7% 10.9%
Internet view/browse 88.4% 88.4% 93.3% 64.5%
Other Internet Uses 30.2% 30.2% 36.5% 15.1%
Creating web pages 12.8% 7.0% 12.5% 8.3%

Faculty

Graduate Students

How respondent uses in teaching
Word processing 21.6% 14.1%
Spreadsheets 8.9% 5.0%
Database management 3.5% 0.5%
E-mail 23.0% 12.1%
Usenet news 7.4% 1.5%
Internet view/browse 22.0% 10.6%
Other Internet Uses 3.9% 2.0%
Course-specific applications 12.4% 2.5%
Statistical analysis 4.6% 1.5%
Programming languages 2.5% 0.0%
Computer-aided design 2.5% 1.1%
Presentation graphics 16.3% 3.0%
Desktop publishing 0.7% 0.5%
Specially licensed packages 2.5% 1.0%
Simulation/teaching games 2.5% 1.5%
Web authoring tools 5.7% 1.5%
Other 5.3% 4.0%

Additional information on this survey (and its previous annual versions dating back to 1993) are available from the Office of Information Technologies. Also, the Office of Institutional Assessment has conducted longitudinal studies that explore computer usage as well as faculty and student attitudes toward the use of computers.

Last Updated on 10/7/98