User Acceptance Study On Academic Information System in University XYZ
User Acceptance Study On Academic Information System in University XYZ
Abstract—Impact advancement of Information Technology information system that was developed to reflect the quality of
and Communication (ICT) has changed the work culture of the the management of a college. Implementation of academic
organization including universities. The management of the information systems at XYZ University has been running more
academic process in higher education becomes very important than 5 (five) years but had never done an evaluation related to
because the core competencies that must be owned for ensuring user acceptance. This study aimed to evaluate the extent of the
the quality of education provided. ICT is believed to be able to environmental acceptability of the user in the organization with
provide support in managing academic processes effectively and the approach of TAM (Technology Acceptance Model). The
efficiently, one through the existence of academic information results showed the perceived ease of use (perceived ease of use)
systems has become a necessity for college and even academic and usefulness (perceived usefulness) positive significant effect on
the interest the usage behavior (behavioral intention) where the negligent in the process of academic registration will be subject
perceived ease of use is more dominant than the perception of to sanctions such as academic leave, etc.
usefulness.
The largest users of academic information systems are
Keywords—academic information system; user acceptance; students, so the largest data that is also used as an evaluation
ease of use; usefulness; TAM material is students. Students have a high level of
intellectuality and curiosity and tend not to be afraid to try new
I. INTRODUCTION things including trying technology (academic information
system). They also have the knowledge and willingness to
Impact of advances in Information and Communication learn to use technology. Based on the explanation, the students
Technology (ICT) has changed the work culture of should have no difficulty in receiving academic information
organizations including universities. The management of system, especially at XYZ University.
academic process in universities becomes very important
because it is the core competence that must be owned to Assessment of user acceptance of academic information
guarantee the quality of education provided. The utilization and system is necessary because the technology without
integration of ICT in the academic process is believed to accompanying user acceptance will cause the utilization rate
improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the academic will be low [1].
process itself [10]. In order to improve the quality of education, These conditions lead to information and communication
ICT has proven able to provide support in managing academic technology will not provide benefits, but instead even lead to
process effectively and efficiently [7,15]. Academic inefficiency, disintegration, and complexity, both at the
information system has become a necessity for universities and individual level or organizational level. In addition, academic
even academic information system developed can reflect the information system that high acceptance of course can provide
quality of management of a college. quality services to users (students) which in turn have an
University must have an information system prepared to impact on increasing the value of the organization. The
support the management and improvement of academic acceptance of users of academic information systems can be
program quality. The information system of a university used as an evaluation of the implementation of ICT is able to
consists of data collection, analysis, storage, retrieval, provide more value for the organization or vice versa.
presentation of data and information as well as communication Thus this study aims to evaluate the extent to which user’s
with interested parties that are built centrally at the university acceptance of academic information system (SIAKAD) is
level known as integrated information system. In other words implemented. The evaluation results can be input and
can be said systematic academic information systematic, recommendations for the organization to improve the quality of
accurate, valid, effective, and efficient indicate that the college its services based on technology.
is managed professionally. Assessment of good and bad an
academic information system provided by users (students,
lecturers, education personnel). II. THEORY
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in this research is student in XYZ university with criterion at TABLE I. OPERATIONAL VARIABLES OF TAM RESEARCH
least in semester 2 (two) because assumed the respondent have No Variables Indicators
used academic information system (SIAKAD) for example for 1 Perceived Usefulness (X1) Work Accelerate (X1.1)
academic registration, course schedule information, study Performance Accelerate (X1.2)
result card, etc. Productivity Increase (X1.3)
Effectiveness (X1.4)
Respondents were asked to give their level of agreement to Work Simplify (X1.5)
any statement regarding user acceptance to academic Beneficial (X1.6)
information system consisting of 4 Likert scales ie 1 = 2 Perceived Ease of Use (X2) Easy to Learn (X2.1)
"strongly disagree", 2 = "disagree", 3 = "agree" and 4 = Controlled (X2.2)
"strongly agree". Clear and Understandable (X2.3)
Flexibility (X2.4)
The TAM model as mentioned previously consists of five Easy to be Skilled (X2.5)
constructs: perception of ease of use, perception of expediency, Easy to Use (X2.6)
attitudes toward usage, interest in usage behavior and actual 3 Behavioral Intention (Y1) Use Motivation (Y1.1)
Addition of IT Support Software
system usage [6]. But over time TAM models are widely used (Y1.2)
and developed by other researchers. Gahtani (2001) modified Encouraging Other Users (Y1.3)
the TAM model by combining the behavior interest interest
variable with the actual use of the system into the acceptance
variable. Therefore in this study TAM model that will be Hypothesis testing in this study using multiple linear
studied following [8] is as follows: regression analysis with the help of SPSS tool to process data
from respondents who provide an assessment of the
questionnaire in Likert scale. The general equation of multiple
linear regression can be presented as follows:
Y = a + b1X1 + b2X2 + e ……….. (1)
Where, Y is Acceptance (acceptance); a is Direct relation of
independent and bound variable; b1 is Perceived usefulness
towards perceived behavior; b2 is Perceived ease of use against
behavioral interests; e is Residue error
The purpose of multiple linear regression technique is to
estimate the magnitude of parameters a, b1 and b2 as
regression coefficients of the above research model [9].
Fig. 2. Research Model
V. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Based on the above research model then there are several
hypotheses to be tested are: A. Instrument Validity and Reliability
H1: Perceived usefulness has a significant positive effect on At the data collection stage, the questionnaire was
behavioral intention. distributed to 168 respondents but there were only 150
H2: Perceived ease of use has a significant positive effect questionnaires that could be used for the analysis phase. This is
on behavioral intention. because there are some incomplete data or missing data in the
questionnaire filling. Thus only complete questionnaire data
H3: Perceived ease of use has a significant positive effect were used in this study. Before the questionnaire data is
on perceived usefulness. processed and analyzed, the validity and reliability of the
instrument must be tested first to test the instrument used has
H4: Perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use
been feasible and meets the specified requirements.
together have a significant effect on behavioral intention.
The results of validity test questionnaire in this study can be
The TAM model in this study consists of two independent
seen from the coefficient of validity of the instrument that is
variables namely perceived usefulness and perceived ease of
the value of rhitung (corrected item-total correlation), where if
use and one dependent variable namely acceptance. Perceived
rhitung larger than rtabel then the indicator (statement) is said
usefulness has 6 indicators of measurement, perceived ease of
valid [3] which can be presented in Table II Test Results
use also consists of 6 indicators while the acceptance variable
Validity of the following Instruments.
has 4 indicators which can be seen in Table I as follows:
Based on the Table II can be seen that each indicator / item
of measurement has a value rhitung greater than rtabel (0.3).
Thus the overall indicator or item of measurement can be said
to be valid because it has met the requirements (> 0.3).
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TABLE II. INSTRUMENT VALIDITY TESTING RESULTS In this study there are five hypotheses tested first, whether
Corrected Item- perceived usefulness (influence perceived usefulness) influence
No Indicators Total Correlation Explanation significant positive effect on behavioral interest of use
(result) (behavioral intention); second, whether perceived ease of use
Perceived Usefulness (X1) has a significant positive effect on behavioral intention; third,
1 Work Accelerate (X1.1) 0.376 Valid whether perceived ease of use has a significant positive effect
2 Performance Accelerate 0.435 Valid
(X1.2)
on perceived usefulness and fourth, whether perceived
3 Productivity Increase (X1.3) 0.577 Valid usefulness and perceived ease of use have a significant effect
4 Effectiveness (X1.4) 0.620 Valid simultaneously on interest in behavioral use (behavioral
5 Work Simplify (X1.5) 0.603 Valid intention).
6 Beneficial (X1.6) 0.590 Valid
Perceived Ease of Use (X2)
1 Easy to Learn (X2.1) 0.508 Valid TABLE IV. INDIVIDUAL SIGNIFICANCE TEST RESULTS (T TEST)
2 Controlled (X2.2) 0.577 Valid
3 Clear and Understandable 0.461 Valid Standardize
(X2.3) Unstandardized d
4 Flexibility (X2.4) 0.641 Valid Coefficients Coefficients
5 Easy to be Skilled (X2.5) 0.636 Valid
6 Easy to Use (X2.6) 0.510 Valid Model B Std. Error Beta t Sig.
Behavioral Intention (Y1) 1 (Constant
.916 .301 3.046 .003
1 Use Motivation (Y1.1) 0.588 Valid )
2 Addition of IT Support 0.583 Valid Usefulnes
Software (Y1.2) .339 .083 .317 4.080 .000
s
3 Encouraging Other Users 0.611 Valid Ease of
(Y1.3) .453 .081 .436 5.597 .000
use
a.
Reliability testing questionnaire in this study was a. Dependent Variable: Behavior_Intention
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scholarships to assessment. Students who will attend the significant effect on behavioral intention interest (behavioral
lecture must register academic, financial and guardianship intention) together.
before the relevant member is declared active. Therefore,
academic information system is perceived as beneficial by the TABLE VI. SIMULTANEOUS SIGNIFICANCE TEST RESULT
respondents because the academic preparation process must be (UJI F) ANOVAA
done through academic information system (sia SIAKAD kad).
For perceived ease of use variable has probability significance
0.000 (<0.05) and tcount price is 5.597 (<ttabel). This means
that the second hypothesis (H2) can be supported that
perceived ease of use has a significant effect on behavioral
intention because it meets the requirements. The results of the
analysis show academic information system (SIAKAD) in the
university is also considered easy to be studied and operated by
the respondents. Web-based SIAKAD is very familiar to use by
students, plus the socialization held by the university to provide
c.
knowledge and skills to the user so that students more easily Dependent Variable: Interests_ Behavior
b.
a. Dependent Variable: Benefit
VI. CONCLUSION
Based on the research that has been done can be drawn
Based on Table V can be seen that perceived ease of use some conclusions as follows:
variables significantly and positively influence perceived
usefulness (perceived usefulness). This can be shown with a 1. Perceived usefulness has a significant and positive effect
probability value of significance of 0.000 (<0.05) and on behavioral intention. It is shown from result of t test
regression coefficient 0.616 (positive). This is in line with with significance 0.000 with regression coefficient equal
Davis's research (1989) where perceived ease of use will affect to 0339.
perceived usefulness. Benefit according to Davis (1989) is 2. Perceived ease of use has a significant and positive effect
consideration of profit (benefits) and cost (cost) in using the on behavioral intention. It can be shown from result of t
system. Ease of use can be seen as part of cost (cost) based on test with significance 0.000 with regression coefficient
user perspective. Therefore, if the system is considered easy by equal to 0453.
the user, it means the cost (cost) or effort of use in using the
system can be said to be low so it will also determine its 3. Perceived ease of use has a significant positive effect on
usefulness (perceived usefulness). perceived usefulness. It can be shown from the result of t
test with significance 0.000 with regression coefficient
The fourth hypothesis test (H4) is done through value that is equal to 0.616.
simultaneous significance test (F test) to find out whether all
independent variables simultaneously affect the dependent 4. Perceived usefulness (perceived usefulness) and perceived
variable that is behavioral interest of use (behavioral intention). ease of use together significantly influence behavioral
interest intention (behavioral intention).
Based on Table VI it can be seen that the probability of
significance is obtained at 0.000 (<0.05) and the Fcount is 5. Interest in behavioral use (behavioral intention) can be
69.931. Thus it can be concluded that the fourth hypothesis explained by perceived usefulness (perceived usefulness)
(H4) is acceptable i.e. perceived usefulness variables and ease of use (perceived ease of use) of 45.8%. Thus the
(perceived usefulness) and perceived ease of use have a remaining 54.2% is influenced by other variables outside
the model.
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