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, Toleman Mark and Roberts, Dave |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the 25th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2014) |
Journal Citation | pp. 1-10 |
Number of Pages | 10 |
Year | 2014 |
Web Address (URL) of Conference Proceedings | http://acis.aaisnet.org/archive.php |
Conference/Event | 25th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2014) |
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 ca. |
Keywords | Circumscription; Educators; Is careers; Is curriculum; Student perceptions |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 469999. Other information and computing sciences not elsewhere classified |
Byline Affiliations | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/v8756/impacting-it-enrolments-what-factors-most-influence-student-career-decisions
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