Impacting IT enrolments: what factors most influence student career decisions
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Paper/Presentation Title | Impacting IT enrolments: what factors most influence student career decisions |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | Genrich, Rohan (Author), Toleman, Mark (Author) and Roberts, Dave (Author) |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the 25th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2014) |
Number of Pages | 10 |
Year | 2014 |
Place of Publication | Palmerston North, New Zealand |
ISBN | 9781927184264 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | http://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10292/8144/acis20140_submission_134.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |
Conference/Event | 25th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2014) |
Event Details | Rank A A A A A A |
Event Details | 25th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2014) Parent Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) Delivery In person Event Date 08 to end of 10 Dec 2014 Event Location Auckland, New Zealand |
Abstract | This paper reports preliminary data on factors influencing student perceptions affecting their decision to study information technology in later years of high school and at university. Factors from the literature mainly align as social or structural. This research has found that structural factors (curriculum and teachers) have the most influence on student decision making about course selection related to IT subjects. Subsequent research will experimentally examine curriculum changes and teacher preparation for improvements of student perception about IT subject selection and IT careers. |
Keywords | IS curriculum; educators; IS careers; student perceptions; circumscription |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390102. Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development |
460999. Information systems not elsewhere classified | |
350303. Business information systems | |
Public Notes | © 2014 Rohan Genrich, Mark Toleman, Dave Roberts. The authors assign to ACIS and educational and non-profit institutions a non-exclusive licence to use this document for personal use and in courses of instruction provided that the article is used in full and this copyright statement is reproduced. The authors also grant a non-exclusive licence to ACIS to publish this document in full in the Conference Papers and Proceedings. Those documents may be published on the World Wide Web, CD-ROM, in printed form, and on mirror sites on the World Wide Web. Any other usage is prohibited without the express permission of the authors. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Management and Enterprise |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q2v2z/impacting-it-enrolments-what-factors-most-influence-student-career-decisions
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