The odd one out: revisiting and investigating the gender imbalance in ICT study choices
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Article Title | The odd one out: revisiting and investigating the gender imbalance in ICT study choices |
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ERA Journal ID | 32017 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Morton, Scott (Author) and Redmond, Petrea (Author) |
Journal Title | Journal of Applied Computing and Information Technology |
Journal Citation | 19 (1), pp. 2-3 |
Number of Pages | 2 |
Year | 2015 |
Place of Publication | New Zealand |
ISSN | 1174-0175 |
1176-4120 | |
2230-4398 | |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.citrenz.ac.nz/jacit/JACIT1901/2015Morton_Gender.html |
Abstract | For the past two decades there has been an imbalance between male and female students entering the Bachelor of Information Technology degree from high schools. The literature suggests that only one in six students entering higher education to study computer related degrees are female. It also suggests that occupational stereotyping can be linked to the decline in the number of females |
Keywords | computers and education, computer uses in education, collaborative learning |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390405. Educational technology and computing |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | Southern Insititute of Technology, New Zealand |
School of Teacher Education and Early Childhood | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q2z4v/the-odd-one-out-revisiting-and-investigating-the-gender-imbalance-in-ict-study-choices
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