Sex differences in response to General Certificate of Education and Caribbean Examinations Council courses in computer studies: A case study of Jamaican high schools

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dc.contributor.authorAlleyne, Brian
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-15T15:26:05Z
dc.date.available2023-11-15T15:26:05Z
dc.date.issued1993
dc.descriptionAn M.Sc. in Development Studies Research Paper
dc.description.abstractThe study examines the responses to students in three Jamaican schools to courses in computer studies which lead to the General Certificate of Education (GCE) and Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) examinations. Existing work on different approaches to epistemology and cognitive style, and different styles of computer usage was reviewed. An attempt was made to conceptualize a continuum of styles of computer usage, which ranges from abstract and formal on the one hand to concrete on the other, and to develop a scale that could be used to measure this range. The study employed a questionnaire and a standard test of cognitive style as its main data gathering instruments. Teachers of computer studies in each of the three schools were interviewed. No statistically significant sex difference were found. The two syllabi were compared and both were found to favour an abstract approach to computer usage. While some of the items in the scale of computer usage styles were found to be significantly correlated with each other, the scale as a whole was not found to be internally consistent. Several factors identified in the literature were found which restrict student access to computer studies as a subject choice. The study concluded that while no sex differences were found for the sample, this could not be used as a basis for generalization to the wider school population.
dc.identifier.otherCERIS - 648:01
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2139/56242
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherThe University of the West Indies, Mona
dc.subjectgender analysis
dc.subjectGCE
dc.subjectCXC
dc.subjectcomputer studies
dc.subjecthigh school
dc.titleSex differences in response to General Certificate of Education and Caribbean Examinations Council courses in computer studies: A case study of Jamaican high schools
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