A Study on Gender Difference Analysis for Gifted Children in IT
| Autor: | Suk-Ki Hong, Woochun Jun |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION
General Computer Science business.industry Logical reasoning media_common.quotation_subject ComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTING National power Information technology Science education Metropolitan area Nature versus nurture Literacy Difference analysis ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Mathematics education business Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering. 18:3013-3019 |
| ISSN: | 2234-4772 |
| DOI: | 10.6109/jkiice.2014.18.12.3013 |
| Popis: | In the knowledge-based society, a nation’s national power depends on IT industry. Also, literacy and application of IT technology can make a person live in comfortable circumstances. Currently, a few outstanding people lead entire IT industry and academy. In this sense, it is necessary to identify and nurture the gifted children in IT as early as we can. The purpose of this paper is to investigate gender difference of the gifted students in IT. Especially we are interested in their grade difference so that we select programming ability and logical thinking ability as academic performance evaluation. For this purpose, the gifted children in gifted science education center attached to a university at Seoul Metropolitan Area are selected. Their grades for 8 years were collected and analyzed. The analysis results show that there is no significant difference between male students and female students for programming ability and logical thinking ability. This also means that there is no academic difference between male and female students for the gifted children in IT. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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