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Results also reveal a relationship between computer use frequency and innovativeness, with daily Internet users displaying higher innovativeness. 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As a result of the study, it was found out that the educational administrators considered themselves as early adaptors . It was also revealed that professional seniority was not important in terms of individual innovativeness and those educational administrators with professional experience of 10 years or over had the same level of innovativeness as those with experience below 10 years did. The results also demonstrated that educational administrators with experience below 10 years had the same level of individual innovativeness . In addition, the results obtained revealed a difference between the computer use frequencies of educational administrators and their individual innovativeness . In other words, it was found out that educational administrators using the Internet everyday were more innovative than those using the Internet a few times a week or a month. Depending on the results obtained in the study, various suggestions were put forward for applied and future studies .  \nKeywords  \nEducational administrators; individual innovativeness; new technologies in education; education and control.  \nA. N. Coklar  \nDigital Education Review-Number 22, December 2012-[http://greav.ub.edu/der/](http://greav.ub.edu/der/ 100)[ 100](http://greav.ub.edu/der/ 100)  \nI. Introduction  \nIn today’s world, a new technology penetrates into our daily lives every new day. Technological innovations force individuals to renovate themselves . In order to be successful in business life, institutions and individuals should keep up with these innovations (Sabherwal, Hirscheim and Goles, 2001) . Administrators directing especially the institutions are also supposed to keep up with the innovations . Among administrative processes, innovation is another important factor besides alignment and culture (Vishwanath and Chen, 2006) .  \nIt is especially important for educational administrators to become innovative so that innovations can be spread throughout institutions in educational industry expected constantly to have a dynamic and innovative structure . Administrators’ innovativeness in educational institutions will help such sharers of the educational process as teachers, students and parents to adopt and follow innovativeness . Depending on this importance, the present study investigated educational administrators’ levels of innovativeness with respect to different dimensions .  \na. Individual Innovativeness Theory  \nRogers gave inspiration to a number of studies regarding innovation and individual innovativeness (Brandon, 2008;Gillard, Bailey and Nolan, 2008; Jackson, Yi and Park, 2010; Janssen, Van De Vliert and West, 2004; Kilicer and Odabasi, 2010; Yuan and Woodman, 2010) . Rogers defines innovation as “an idea, practice, or object that is perceived as new by an individual or other unit of adoption” (Rogers, 2003) . Individual innovativeness is defined as developing, adopting or implementing an innovation (Yuan and Woodman, 2010) . Rogers (2003) states that in individual innovativeness theory, there is always new information within the social system and that this new information is processed by adopters (Rogers, 2003) .  \nIn the process of adaptation, adopters act upon their perceptions regarding the characteristics of the innovation . Although there are a number of contextual factors, some findings are influential on adopters’decisions regarding adaptation to innovation . In other words, individuals are likely to have certain perceptions regarding a new technology that they have met in their social environments . These perc","cbCaiaxDwQUFygLo","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaxDwQUFygLo","pdf",370911,11,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Individual Innovativeness Theory\n## Categories of adopters’ individual innovativeness","[{\"question\":\"How many educational administrators participated in the study?\",\"answer\":\"The study included 190 educational administrators.\"},{\"question\":\"Do professional seniority levels affect individual innovativeness?\",\"answer\":\"No. Professional seniority was not important; those with 10+ years had the same innovativeness level as those with less than 10 years.\"},{\"question\":\"How does computer and Internet use frequency relate to innovativeness?\",\"answer\":\"Administrators using the Internet every day were more innovative than those using it a few times a week or a month.\"}]","Individual Innovativeness Levels of Educational Administrators | PDF",28]