“I would rather spend time with a person than a machine”: Qualitative Findings from the Girls and ICT Survey
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Courtney, L
Timms, C
Anderson, N
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2006
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This paper reports on qualitative findings of the "Girls and Information Communication Technology" (ICT) survey, investigating the declining trend in high school girls taking advanced level Information Processing Technology (IPT) and Information Technology Systems (ITS) subjects. Girls from 26 Queensland high schools participated in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grant project, conducted by researchers from James Cook University (JCU) in partnership with Education Queensland (EQ) and Technology One. This paper reports on the major themes that resulted from content analysis of the open question comments ...
View more >This paper reports on qualitative findings of the "Girls and Information Communication Technology" (ICT) survey, investigating the declining trend in high school girls taking advanced level Information Processing Technology (IPT) and Information Technology Systems (ITS) subjects. Girls from 26 Queensland high schools participated in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grant project, conducted by researchers from James Cook University (JCU) in partnership with Education Queensland (EQ) and Technology One. This paper reports on the major themes that resulted from content analysis of the open question comments provided by 1,452 girls who either did or did not chose IPT/ITS subjects.
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View more >This paper reports on qualitative findings of the "Girls and Information Communication Technology" (ICT) survey, investigating the declining trend in high school girls taking advanced level Information Processing Technology (IPT) and Information Technology Systems (ITS) subjects. Girls from 26 Queensland high schools participated in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grant project, conducted by researchers from James Cook University (JCU) in partnership with Education Queensland (EQ) and Technology One. This paper reports on the major themes that resulted from content analysis of the open question comments provided by 1,452 girls who either did or did not chose IPT/ITS subjects.
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Quality and Impact of Qualitative Research: QualIT 2006, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Qualitative Research in IT and IT in Qualitative Research
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Information systems not elsewhere classified